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Flower shot bingo

Postby padey on Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:19 am

Usually i shoot this subject with my 85/60mm macro lens. But i thought i'd get a few shots with some different glass. Play a bit of lens bingo; pull some random glass out and see what comes up.

The first problem was it was low-ish indoor light and i couldn't be bothered pulling out a tripod. So handheld it was.

Close eyes and pull a lens i pull out of the bag was the 10.5mm fisheye. First challenge, 180 degree view on the diagonal corner. Basically i just stuck the lens into the tulip. The front of the petals was touching the lens, but at least the frame was filled. The downside was loss of light, so i either bump the ISO to 1600 or deep breath a 1/20sec shot. I take the 1/20sec and... well you can see for yourself...
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Ok, i close my eyes and pull a 28mm f1.4 out of my bag. The good was the fast aperture in the low-ish light, but the bad is the minimum focus distance is terrible for close-ups. So drop the ISO to 400 and get a close as possible and...
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Last shot at the title, dip the hand in the bag and pull out the 35-70mm f2.8. Gold, this one has a macro. May not have the 1:1 or 2:1 like a dedicated macro, but hopefully a 4:1 at 35mm will do the job. I can't remember any review that didn't see this macro other then a token add-on. Another option was to step back, pull the push-pull zoom to 70mm and get a token close up. But i stick with the token macro and...
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And the winner is..... who cares. I had fun doing it.
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Postby sheepie on Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:26 am

geeze that fisheye is a flexible lens! I actually prefer the fisheye shot, with a bit of cropping (maybe as much as turning it into a portrait crop) - get rid of the lighter area on the left :)

The third is probably the technically better of these, but I still come back to the first as my favourite :)

Interesting idea!
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Great shots!

Postby zafra52 on Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:44 pm

It's amazing how may different looks can you get from the same flower using different lenses. All of them are very good Padey, but my favourite, and I believe is the most original, is the fist one.
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Postby Justin on Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:57 pm

#3 for me - probably because I have that lens :-) but it does seem to have better colour (purple in the stamen) and bokeh

But all fantastic shots and great colour
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Postby padey on Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:33 pm

sheepie wrote:geeze that fisheye is a flexible lens! I actually prefer the fisheye shot, with a bit of cropping (maybe as much as turning it into a portrait crop) - get rid of the lighter area on the left :)

The third is probably the technically better of these, but I still come back to the first as my favourite :)

Interesting idea!


The fisheye is a little soft for my taste. It would have been sharper if i had stuck it on a tripod.
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Postby mudder on Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:59 pm

Ha! I love the challenge and creativity of lens lotto, and the first and third are great results!

The stamen(?) in that third shot is just about jumping off the screen!
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Postby admajic on Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:35 am

This should be a lense lust challenge!! Nice work I also like the 1st shot!!
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