SnusOn Art

[sgreger1]

@ Heders:

So I took your advice and got the Cannon 50mm f/1.8 and it's awesome! Great depth of field, decent Bokeh (though only round at 1.8, then it gets all pentagon looking due to the 5 blades), but overall great for the money. The only complain is that it refuses to autofocus a lot of the time even in good lighting, and the manual focus can't get it crisp for some reason. Maybe not enough contrast in the stuff I was taking pictures of.


These are not pictures of anything, just trying out different settings to isolate the foreground/background or some combination of the two.








We got those new green "daylight" super efficient lightbulbs in our house recently, they make this weird cool/blue light instead of the traditional warm/orange light you get, it makes some things look weird when you photograph them like these flowers:

[Frosted]

Heders - those are excellent pics. Plenty of mood in them. Superb quality in that D80 - I've only got a D40 and it doesn't come anywhere near close to that quality.

[clint404]

Im a decent artist. I use photoshop a lot and design websites and company logos. Some of these are photos, freehand sketches, photoshop sketches, and snus art. The swirly thing is gonna be my next tattoo. Leme know what you think...

[clint404]

My fave!

[heders]

@ Heders:

So I took your advice and got the Cannon 50mm f/1.8 and it's awesome! Great depth of field, decent Bokeh (though only round at 1.8, then it gets all pentagon looking due to the 5 blades), but overall great for the money. The only complain is that it refuses to autofocus a lot of the time even in good lighting, and the manual focus can't get it crisp for some reason. Maybe not enough contrast in the stuff I was taking pictures of.


These are not pictures of anything, just trying out different settings to isolate the foreground/background or some combination of the two.

That's awesome! Yeah, the f/1.8 is a fantastic lens for the money. If you want good, round bokeh you have to go down to f/1.8 or f/2.8 indeed. Do you live in a warm area? If not, when the trees starts growing leaves again in the summer, try doing bokeh shots with those leaves in the background together with the light shining on them. That makes for a wicked cool bokeh background! Fantastic for portraits.

I've noticed about the auto focus as well. Often my focus gets in the background of the image instead of the foreground when taking pictures at a low aparture number. It also only happens when there a bit of a distance to the object I want to focus on. Close-up shots I have no problem with really (except it's hard to get perfect focus at such low f numbers).

Heders - those are excellent pics. Plenty of mood in them. Superb quality in that D80 - I've only got a D40 and it doesn't come anywhere near close to that quality.

Thanks a lot man! Yeah, I really love the D80. Totally fantastic camera in all aspects. Haven't got anything to complain about with that one. The D40 I've heard is good also, but remember: if you want, you can get fantastic pictures out of the D40 as well. It lies in capturing the motive in the right light, the right composition, and do some adjustments in Photoshop afterwards. You can take award winning photos with a little pocket camera. I'd love to see some of your shots!


A shot from today: