Post your Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Lens shots

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<p style="text-align: center;"]For being Canon's cheapest lens, I LOVE IT! Post your 50mm f/1.8 II Lens shots
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<p style="text-align: center;"]1/320 sec at f/1.8
ISO 100
Canon 50D
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<p style="text-align: center;"]1/640 sec at f/2.8
ISO 100
Canon 50D



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<p style="text-align: center;"]1/800 sec at f/2.8
ISO 100
Canon 50D

Love them!

Wonderful shots!

you simply make me feel embarrassed when I use my $1000+ lens, well kind of[:$]


nice shots!

thanks! you know I find myself using that 50mm over my 24-70 f/2.8 USM, and my 70-200mm f/4.0 IS USM all the time for portraits. And I

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you know I find myself using that 50mm over my 24-70 f/2.8 USM, and my 70-200mm f/4.0 IS USM all the time for portraits

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me too! i use 35mm1.4 and 135 mm 2.0 instead though but could not get that good pictures like yours. how do you set up your lighting and do you do a lot of PP in photoshop?

I think it also helps that you really capture great expressions. Fantastic portraits. I

All the lighting is natural, those shots were shot around 3:00 pm outside sunny as a whistle. the first photo was in the shade, and the other to in full sunlight. I don't use a flash due to the lack of one (working on getting one of those :-) exposure comp./AEB - "0" , picture style - "Landscape" White balance - "sunny" Metering mode - "evaluative metering" and of course I only ever shoot on manual. I don't use photoshop for post processing, do to the lack of work flow that already exists in light room. The only time I use photoshop for post photo processing, is if I have to literally erase people. As far as post processing goes, I usually bump up my blacks slider value +1, or 2 then correct the exposure as needed. Depending on the image I might bump up the overall contrast slider +1-3. I try to stay away from it though cause it ruins detail. And the seconded image I just desaturated the image too almost complete black and white, and then just raised the overall temperature of the image +5 towards warm/yellow Other than that I don't mess with a whole lot. Oh and I also have a UV filter on all of my lenses, made my colors pop out a lot more. Hope that helps! oh and I almost for got. You all are going to shoot me, but I pretty much only ever shoot in j-peg mode. Tried RAW for a month or so, and got super tired of the extra time converting over to j-peg. And not to mention taking up 3 times as much space. I also tend to like the colors that j-peg produces over raw. I know that sounds silly, but I feel like i get more of a contrasty/darker color saturation with j-peg. It more or less reminds me of the film shots I took back in the day on my dads old Minolta XD11. And the difference that i got from shooting raw, converting, post processing, then output to j-peg. I didn't notice enough difference to care.

thanks! your 120% right about expressions. Trying to get portraits like that with adults = impossible lol. I work as a youth developer, and I also take photos for our organization. So I do get a lot of opportunities to take shots. But all of my kids are so stinking photogenic, its ridiculous. I have a website that all of this is eventually going on. working my butt off trying to get it ready. On another note, I would love to get the 1.4! my only one problem I guess I have with the $90 50 1.8 is the slow focus. I LOVE the USM

thanks Thomas, for your inputs.


for portraits, it makes sense that shooting in jpeg because you can set everything perfect before shooting and take test shots for adjustment, and you can retake the pictures if needed most of the time.


I hate the PP, but I have to shoot in raw when I take bird pictures, just name one of the reason, I need to get as much data I can because I crop a lot.

Nice Shots, one thing I noticed was that you were shooting from above in shots 1 and 3, and the children were looking up at you, as most people are taught to get low when shooting children.., however I like your approach for these portraits, as it looks like the child is looking up to an adult in a playful manner.


Rich

you make a wonderful point that I didn

Thanks Richard! That

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Great images Thomas! I don't have any that nice but I do enjoy using this lens. It's a great value in my opinion!


Here are a couple of ones from a couple of years ago:





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Paul

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1157/...fd17fa2447.jpg


IMG_1987.jpg by Chris-Baker, on Flickr



I was afraid that I was about to be popped on the whole time I was shooting this crazy flock of seagulls/ducks.





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IMG_1949.jpg by Chris-Baker, on Flickr

Awesome shots! really like the first one a lot. I love the composition!

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4100/...2141c6cb_z.jpg


1/200s at f/1.8, ISO 11, Canon Xsi





Here's mine, from when I was still using manual focus with this lens (what a stupid idea!)
Pure luck that I got his eyes in focus.....

That is a great shot; what a wonderful expression. Pure luck maybe, but a very well composed shot and lighting is perfect. Looks like he was just given the coolest toy in the whole world!

really nice shot BogdanD!


I would believe you if you told me you shot this picture with 7D, 135mm2.0L[:D][Y]

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1/200s at f/1.8, ISO 11, Canon Xsi





Here's mine, from when I was still using manual focus with this lens (what a stupid idea!)
Pure luck that I got his eyes in focus.....
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Pretty amazing at f1.8. Reviews indicate that the lens is not that sharp. ISO 11?

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<p class="MsoNormal"]Was going to throw this one out due to the exposure, but
while trying to minimize the preset menu in Lightroom, accidentally clicked the
&ldquo;Black and White &ndash;Creamtone&rdquo; filter......



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....And decided to keep it. Shot it between a chain link fence


1/640sec at f/22
EF50mm f/1.8II
Canon 50D

Thanks everyone! It

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1/200s at f/1.8, <span style="font-size: xx-large;"]ISO 11, Canon Xsi





Here's mine, from when I was still using manual focus with this lens (what a stupid idea!)
Pure luck that I got his eyes in focus.....
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At what ISO did you shoot?

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At what ISO did you shoot?

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He used ISO 100. The picture is a Flickr link. On Flickr you can click on camera part on the information on the right where it says "This photo was taken onAugust 7, 2010using aCanon EOS Digital Rebel XSi."and you'll get the full EXIF. Or click "Actions" then "View EXIF data".

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He used ISO 100. The picture is a Flickr link. On Flickr you can click on camera part on the information on the right where it says "This photo was taken on[url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/48939759@N07/archives/date-taken/2010/08/07/]August 7, 2010[/url]using a[url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/48939759@N07/4907065533/meta/]Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi[/url]."and you'll get the full EXIF. Or click "Actions" then "View EXIF data".
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Thanks. I am not familiar with Flicker. I clicked on the photo and went there. From my Firefox i can often right click and get the EXIF. When this does not work I assume the user stripped it.


Mark

Sorry! I didn

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Sorry! I didn't realize I did that!
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It happens. I have fat fingers too


Mark

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Thanks. I am not familiar with Flicker

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That why I pointed it out. Not everyone is going to realize the info is there. Flickr used to have a button called "Show more information" to get to the EXIF data. It was hidden near the bottom of the right hand size, in a small point size. In their recent redesign, it's moved to a very unclear spot. I mean, why would text indicating a camera model be a link to full EXIF? Maybe after the camera model it could say DETAILS, or EXIF, or MORE, but it doesn't. I don't find any of Yahoo!'s properties have nice interfaces.

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Great shot, BogdanD. The expression is priceless.

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Pretty amazing at f1.8. Reviews indicate that the lens is not that sharp.

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This is a 0.7 MP image corresponding to a 3 inch print -- wallet size -- so I don't think it really says anything about lens sharpness except "this lens is sharp enough to post images on the web or make wallet-size prints."I don't mean to pick on you clemmb, but I also don't want any other readers to get the wrong idea about this lens.



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