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[Citizen87645]

Finally used the Tamron macro (beyond just testing things) on a couple of baby snails no bigger 'round than a pencil eraser.

The photos were taken at the end of the day, so I couldn't push the aperture very high, so margins of focusing errors were pretty slim. Just don't be pixel peeping.

 

[Mike Frezon]

#3 for me!

After all, it's all about the "eyes..."

That's pretty impressive Cameron. That penny in the one shot looks ginormous and provides a nice scale.

 

[Citizen87645]

I'll have to shoot in brighter conditions next time. Most of the time I find my eye wandering to find what's in focus and f/5.6 wasn't really giving enough DOF.

 

[Mike Frezon]

So, next time, just think "police interrogation" or some other severe direct lighting!:

 

[Scott Merryfield]

Look at that S car go! (Sorry, it's the punch line to an old, silly joke)

Which Tamron lens do you have, Cameron?

 

[Citizen87645]

The 60mm f/2.0

 

[Sam Posten]

So this really isnt my bag but I got dragged into doing senior pics for my bud whose son wanted em. It was 5+ hours all told, no way I would do this as a business, I'd had to have charged thousands to make it worth while.

But.

I had fun and got roped into trying some photoshop merging, that came out 'ok' for a doofus noob at it I think.


Untitled by Sam Posten III, on Flickr


Untitled by Sam Posten III, on Flickr


Untitled by Sam Posten III, on Flickr


Untitled by Sam Posten III, on Flickr


Untitled by Sam Posten III, on Flickr


BobbyJ by Sam Posten III, on Flickr


DamonMerged by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

Untitled by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

Untitled by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

 

[Mike Frezon]

I especially like the 2nd shot, Sam--the posed "hero" portrait.

I'll bet everyone connected with the project liked it, too!

 

[JohnRice]

I've barely used the Sigma 150-500 I got last year, but I took it out today to a local nature area that has lots of rabbits. I've almost never used image stabilization, and it just blows my mind. I shot stuff at 500mm (750mm effective) at 1/125 sec handheld that's almost razor sharp. This one is 1/400 sec, and it's sharper than I thought the lens was even capable of.

 

[Scott Merryfield]

Modern image stabilization on a telephoto lens can be amazing, John. I had the original Canon 100-400L IS, and it's image stabilization was quite old (Canon's first generation). Anything slower than 1/500sec on a crop body (640mm equivalent) was really pushing it for me. With the newer 100-400L MKII, I can get sharp shots at under 1/125sec. From a practical standpoint, anything slower and you'll probably get motion blur if shooting anything but perfectly still objects.

I've found IS useful even on normal and wide angle zooms. There are some places where tripods are either too inconvenient or outright not allowed.

This was taken with a 17-55mm IS lens on a crop body when I was hiking through a canyon area near Lake Placid without a tripod -- 1/2sec handheld to blur the water.

This was taken in a historic copper mill in Kennicott, Alaska -- 16mm on full frame, 1/6sec. I could have bumped up the ISO, but didn't for whatever reason.

 

[JohnRice]

Scott, those are great examples of a use for IS that was overlooked for a long time. Were you at least steadied against a railing or something for those shots? On my rabbit shots, the ones at 1/125 are only soft when you pixel peek, and only in comparison to the 1/400 ones. I should have used a monopod, which I had in the car, but I just didn't think of it. That shot at 1/400 is crisp down to the pixel. You'd probably have to shoot at 1/2000 to get that level of resolution normally at 750mm. It was at f/8, which is probably at least 1 stop short of the best for the lens. I think f/11, maybe a little further is where it hits its peak.

 

[ArmSC]

Here are a few I took a few months ago

 

[Richard V]

 

[Richard V]

 

[Mike Frezon]

Richard: Did you take that picture of Bob Hope?!?

 

[Richard V]

It is a statue of him, in San Diego.

 

[Mike Frezon]

Aaaaaah. Thanks.

I never thought of that.

Trying to figure it out, I was wondering about that person in red in the background.

 

[Richard V]

 

[Scott Merryfield]

Scott, those are great examples of a use for IS that was overlooked for a long time. Were you at least steadied against a railing or something for those shots? On my rabbit shots, the ones at 1/125 are only soft when you pixel peek, and only in comparison to the 1/400 ones. I should have used a monopod, which I had in the car, but I just didn't think of it. That shot at 1/400 is crisp down to the pixel. You'd probably have to shoot at 1/2000 to get that level of resolution normally at 750mm. It was at f/8, which is probably at least 1 stop short of the best for the lens. I think f/11, maybe a little further is where it hits its peak.

John, I think I was leaning on a stone wall for the waterfall shot, but I cannot remember for certain. Some shots from that hike were taken that way, and some were without any support. It just depended on what was available for the composition for each shot. The one in the copper mill was without any support, as there wasn't anything available to lean on and still get a decent composition.

 

[Richard V]