Post Your Photography Here #2

[Redcarmoose]

 

[Redcarmoose]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Leica-M6-with-sandpaper-to-be-spent-in-the-style-Leica-M-P-Correspondent-/301555257576?pt=ES_C%C3%A1maras_de_v%C3%ADdeo&hash=item46361810e8



Leica and sandpaper on Ebay.

 

[MorbidToaster]

A few from my hand tattoo session and a few from the riverbed in Sattler, TX.

 

[LugBug1]

A few from my hand tattoo session and a few from the riverbed in Sattler, TX.

Wow, you've got some serious ink goin now buddy. Really like them. 

 

[tomscy2000]

Worker tearing down a massive set at CKS Memorial Hall.
 
BTW, if anyone's interested, I wrote a little blurb about going FF at the Ohm Image (shigzeo's) blog:
http://ohm-image.net/opinion/photophile/going-full-frame-with-the-canon-eos-6d

 

[eke2k6]

 
Worker tearing down a massive set at CKS Memorial Hall.
 
BTW, if anyone's interested, I wrote a little blurb about going FF at the Ohm Image (shigzeo's) blog:
http://ohm-image.net/opinion/photophile/going-full-frame-with-the-canon-eos-6d

 
Great read!
 
If you're still looking for a portrait lens, and don't mind manual aperture and focus, check out the Samyang 85mm 1.4. If you want to go even cheaper, the Opteka/Vivtar 85mm 1.8 lenses are stunning for the price.

 

[tomscy2000]

  Great read! If you're still looking for a portrait lens, and don't mind manual aperture and focus, check out the Samyang 85mm 1.4. If you want to go even cheaper, the Opteka/Vivtar 85mm 1.8 lenses are stunning for the price.

Thanks. I'm actually looking at the Samyang 135 f/2, if I don't end up going with the 135L (or the Tamron 70-200 VC) ---- I mostly do headshots, so rarely past head-and-shoulders. To me, 85mm still creates a bit too much perspective distortion on the face. I was having trouble with that with my 50/1.4 on the 1.6x crop already, and that's about 80mm effective focal length. I'm borrowing my friend's 105 macro for a beauty shoot I'm putting together (slowly), so I'll see if the 100-105 focal distance is sufficient.
 
For half-body and 3/4 shots, an 85mm would be awesome, but I want to wait to see if Sigma releases an 85 Art lens, or if they decide to revamp their 70-200/2.8. For environmental portraits, I think my 24-70 is good. I'm keeping my 50 for the street, and 85 for tighter street portraits.
 
Just ordered a Godox boom arm to better place my octa; I'm considering getting the Wistro AD360/PB960 for run-gun strobe shooting purposes. I can't stand burning thru batteries on normal speedlights. I'm going to refrain from buying studio strobes until I can afford a quality kit, like the new Phottix Indra500 (don't like using TTL, but I like the battery portability, and the Profoto B1 is $$$$) or heck, even the broncolor Siros. That sexy iPad app is too seductive.

 

[eke2k6]

 
Thanks. I'm actually looking at the Samyang 135 f/2, if I don't end up going with the 135L (or the Tamron 70-200 VC) ---- I mostly do headshots, so rarely past head-and-shoulders. To me, 85mm still creates a bit too much perspective distortion on the face. I was having trouble with that with my 50/1.4 on the 1.6x crop already, and that's about 80mm effective focal length. I'm borrowing my friend's 105 macro for a beauty shoot I'm putting together (slowly), so I'll see if the 100-105 focal distance is sufficient.
 
For half-body and 3/4 shots, an 85mm would be awesome, but I want to wait to see if Sigma releases an 85 Art lens, or if they decide to revamp their 70-200/2.8. For environmental portraits, I think my 24-70 is good. I'm keeping my 50 for the street, and 85 for tighter street portraits.
 
Just ordered a Godox boom arm to better place my octa; I'm considering getting the Wistro AD360/PB960 for run-gun strobe shooting purposes. I can't stand burning thru batteries on normal speedlights. I'm going to refrain from buying studio strobes until I can afford a quality kit, like the new Phottix Indra500 (don't like using TTL, but I like the battery portability, and the Profoto B1 is $$$$) or heck, even the broncolor Siros. That sexy iPad app is too seductive.

 
Ah, gotcha. The thing though is that you were still getting 50mm distortions, despite the crop factor. I realized that when I got my hands on a real 85mm. It just doesn't compare.
 
I think the world will collectively lose its mind if Sigma releases the 85mm Art.
 
Congrats on the boom. I recently got a brolly box as a quicker and more universal softbox. That way I can mount it to anything that fits on a lightstand, instead of getting a speedring for every strobe I own.
 
 
Looking forward to more of your full frame adventures.

 

[tomscy2000]

 
Ah, gotcha. The thing though is that you were still getting 50mm distortions, despite the crop factor. I realized that when I got my hands on a real 85mm. It just doesn't compare.
 
I think the world will collectively lose its mind if Sigma releases the 85mm Art.
 
Congrats on the boom. I recently got a brolly box as a quicker and more universal softbox. That way I can mount it to anything that fits on a lightstand, instead of getting a speedring for every strobe I own.
 
Looking forward to more of your full frame adventures.

 
LOL... yes. An 85 Art would force Sigma workers into quintuple overtime! I was on the Sigma bandwagon even before their whole global vision thing, so I find it pretty amusing that suddenly everybody is ****riding them. I like Tamron too, but I'm not a huge fan of their industrial design and textures. I did love the uber noisy, robot-like motors they used to use though.
 
If you have the room, get a 7' parabolic --- those things create gorgeous, wrapping light up close, and if you need to light up a group (e.g. a band picture), it'll do the trick too.

 

[eke2k6]

   
LOL... yes. An 85 Art would force Sigma workers into quintuple overtime! I was on the Sigma bandwagon even before their whole global vision thing, so I find it pretty amusing that suddenly everybody is ****riding them. I like Tamron too, but I'm not a huge fan of their industrial design and textures. I did love the uber noisy, robot-like motors they used to use though.
 
If you have the room, get a 7' parabolic --- those things create gorgeous, wrapping light up close, and if you need to light up a group (e.g. a band picture), it'll do the trick too.

 
I've known for a long time how good sigma lenses can be, since I learned photography with their DP cameras that they used as a D-League for their lenses.
 
Sadly, my good man, I do not have room lol. Maybe if I start to shoot larger weddings, and want to set up a booth or something.

 

[tomscy2000]

  I've known for a long time how good sigma lenses can be, since I learned photography with their DP cameras that they used as a D-League for their lenses.
 
Sadly, my good man, I do not have room lol. Maybe if I start to shoot larger weddings, and want to set up a booth or something.

I have a soft spot for DP cameras as well; only used a DP1 once, but it left a lasting impression on me.
 
When I have the time to hunt for parts, I'm going to modify my octa so it behaves a little more like a beauty dish by adding in a deflector plate. I'll probably screw it into a Sto-fen omni-bounce for modularity. The octa I have is tiny (53 cm), but it's close to the standard beauty dish size. It has an internal frosted baffle, so the light quality isn't super soft if I take off the outer diffusion sock, and behaves more like an Elinchrom Rotalux in terms of depth and dimension (but not quite). Mostly, it's just convenient. It folds up completely into a thin bag. (Link)

 

[LugBug1]

 
Worker tearing down a massive set at CKS Memorial Hall.
 
BTW, if anyone's interested, I wrote a little blurb about going FF at the Ohm Image (shigzeo's) blog:
http://ohm-image.net/opinion/photophile/going-full-frame-with-the-canon-eos-6d

Great photo and enjoyed reading the blog.  

 

[eke2k6]

 
I have a soft spot for DP cameras as well; only used a DP1 once, but it left a lasting impression on me.
 
When I have the time to hunt for parts, I'm going to modify my octa so it behaves a little more like a beauty dish by adding in a deflector plate. I'll probably screw it into a Sto-fen omni-bounce for modularity. The octa I have is tiny (53 cm), but it's close to the standard beauty dish size. It has an internal frosted baffle, so the light quality isn't super soft if I take off the outer diffusion sock, and behaves more like an Elinchrom Rotalux in terms of depth and dimension (but not quite). Mostly, it's just convenient. It folds up completely into a thin bag. (Link)

 
The sucky thing about buying things like softboxes and beauty dishes is having to get speedrings. If they ever make a universal one, I'm all in.

 

[LugBug1]

 

[Frank I]