First pics from my new Canon EFS 17-55

[BES]

sweet lens, nice photos.

[Sean Setters]

I concur. You are going to love that lens.


My new 50mm f/1.4 came in today but I haven't been able to shoot because my camera equipment is at my girlfriend's house. I'm suffering from withdrawal symptoms! Oddly enough, I could have had it yesterday but I didn't know it. UPS estimated the arrival date as the 15th, but it showed up on the 14th while I wasn't home. Would have been perfect for a nighttime portrait session I had last night. Instead, I used my trusty 17-55 f/2.8 IS (and they still turned out great, of course). ;-) One caveat about the 17-55 is that it'll have hard time focusing under low-light conditions with little contrast (that's challenging for many lenses, though, as I understand it).





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strobist: 1 Vivitar 285HV, camera right (behind subject), 1/16 power, 1/2 CTO gelled, reflected into a white/black-backed umbrella. 1 Vivitar 285, camera left (behind subject), 1/16 power, 1/2 CTO gelled, reflected into a white/black-backed umbrella. The ALZO Digital Porta-Flash Mini Softbox was not used for this shot. All triggered via Cybersyncs.


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strobist: 1 Vivitar 285HV, camera right (behind subject), 1/16 power with a 1-stop ND filter and 1/2 CTO gel, bare. 1 Vivitar 285, camera left (behind subject), 1/16 power with a 1-stop ND filter and 1/2 CTO gel, bare. 1 Vivitar 285HV, slightly camera right (fairly close to subject), 1/16 power, 1/2 CTO gelled, shot through a 15" ALZO Digital Porta-Flash Mini Softbox. All triggered via Cybersyncs.