Jake's Backdoor Hippie-palooza, 2014 Edition

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And a couple more for you...

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For the bottom one I pulled out the Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 that I've had for sale for about a year and a half. Sort of glad I never got rid of it. I've got 3 FX lenses in that range, but heck, I'm not going to give them away, which is what I seem to have to do with this or the 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5.
 
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sonicbuffalo said:
Nice market pictures....what are the red things? turnips? And where is the Easton Assasin....Larry Holmes?
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The red things are radishes. Hard to tell from that perspective. As for Larry Holmes, he's around. I actually sat behind him on a flight from Allentown/Bethlehem to Cleveland and ran into him a couple more times when I was flying out of there for work. He's got a bar and a couple others things around town. Haven't seen him in a few years, but I haven't been looking for him. ;)
 
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Turnips are purple and white looking. In fact, they look just like the purple and white things in the top photo above the little card that says, Turnips $2/lb. ;)

Maybe you're thinking about Beets, which are to the right of the turnips in that picture?
 
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BackdoorHippie said:
Easton Farmer's Market

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Jake, for these two photos--were they both taken with your 15mm fisheye lens, and if so, did you use the lens correction option in LR5? I was playing around with that option in LR5 yesterday but don't have enough wide angle photos to really test it out. One thing I noticed is that it removed vignetting; however, sometimes I prefer having vignetting. I like your end results so am not questioning their artistic merit (love them both :cool:). Since I don't yet have enough of my own photos to play with the lens correction option, I can only ask some questions. ;) How do you find the lens correction option to work with a fisheye lens? Is it pretty accurate, or do you tend to need to tweak the photos? Thanks for any info! :)
 
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These were not profile corrected. I almost always use it, but rarely with the fisheye. Here's the fountain perspective (unedited) with the profile correction applied...

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It essentially turns it into a 15mm lens, but stretches and severely distorts the corners, losing a lot of resolution. There are uses for it, particularly with architecture, but you need to make sure that details are preserved where you need them.

Some lenses vignette more than others (like the 50mm f/1.8), and being able to correct them is a plus in most situations, but if you like a lens for the look that it gives you then you can simply turn it off. I apply it automatically in the Develop module, so it's a bit of a pain when I have to turn it off for the fish, but it saves me clicks with all the other lenses.

If you're really interested in how profile and perspective correction work with the fish, I say a LOT about it here...

http://nikonites.com/wide-angle/18582-sigma-15mm-f2-8-fisheye-first-impressions.html
 
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Been busy getting a website finished and domains moved to a new hosting company, so not a lot of time to edit.

Here's one from a couple weeks ago...

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BackdoorHippie said:
Been busy getting a website finished and domains moved to a new hosting company, so not a lot of time to edit.

Here's one from a couple weeks ago...
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Nice shot jake, I really like it.... as I prepare to retire and move... my time has been greatly limited... soon I will have lots of time! :)

Pat in NH (for 13 more days~!)
 
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BackdoorHippie said:
Been busy getting a website finished and domains moved to a new hosting company, so not a lot of time to edit.

Here's one from a couple weeks ago...

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Beautiful, Jake! Absolutely beautiful. :)

So why f/4? I realize the apertures at that focal length are pretty small so more DOF regardless--just wondering as I have no complaints at all! ;) And did you focus about 1/3 of the way into the scene? I'm still trying to find the ideal focusing spot for my landscapes. :eagerness:
 
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sonicbuffalo said:
We'll have to see that website Jake.....love the picture this morning!
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Nothing spectacular. Just a Wordpress-based site for the photography venture. Been playing with various templates and gallery content. Nothing there you haven't seen here yet. I just need to get it done so the gallery I've got work at can link to it from their artist section.

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Beautiful, Jake! Absolutely beautiful. :)

So why f/4? I realize the apertures at that focal length are pretty small so more DOF regardless--just wondering as I have no complaints at all! ;) And did you focus about 1/3 of the way into the scene? I'm still trying to find the ideal focusing spot for my landscapes. :eagerness:
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Why not? Why over-think the shot you're looking at? I'm somewhat serious about this - I find that when you over think what's in front of you it can cause you to lose the shot.

This was initially a throw-away I was doing for a challenge on another website called "Shallow DOF Landscapes", so it was the minimum aperture I had on the lens. I squeezed this off, focusing on the closest thing I had to me, and pixel peeped. Next thing I did was take the lens off and put on the 28mm f/1.8. It was only after finishing that that I took another look at this before deleting the extras and thought it was more than usable. 19mm with a subject distance of 10 feet (about the distance to the nearest tree) gives you everything from 5' to Infinity at f/4. When I've got that lens (16-35mm f/4) on the camera I'm almost never thinking DOF with shots like this. Normally I'll keep it about f/5.6 as it removes what little edge softness there is from this lens.

I don't start thinking or worrying about DOF until after about 35mm with my zooms. f/4 gives you comfortable DOF in most situations wide-open that I don't have to worry about getting 1/2 a face in focus - it's one of the nice things about them. When I switch to primes, or put the 24-70mm f/2.8 on, then it's almost always with an eye towards narrow DOF and that's when I start thinking about it.
 
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Nothing spectacular. Just a Wordpress-based site for the photography venture. Been playing with various templates and gallery content. Nothing there you haven't seen here yet. I just need to get it done so the gallery I've got work at can link to it from their artist section.



Why not? Why over-think the shot you're looking at? I'm somewhat serious about this - I find that when you over think what's in front of you it can cause you to lose the shot.

This was initially a throw-away I was doing for a challenge on another website called "Shallow DOF Landscapes", so it was the minimum aperture I had on the lens. I squeezed this off, focusing on the closest thing I had to me, and pixel peeped. Next thing I did was take the lens off and put on the 28mm f/1.8. It was only after finishing that that I took another look at this before deleting the extras and thought it was more than usable. 19mm with a subject distance of 10 feet (about the distance to the nearest tree) gives you everything from 5' to Infinity at f/4. When I've got that lens (16-35mm f/4) on the camera I'm almost never thinking DOF with shots like this. Normally I'll keep it about f/5.6 as it removes what little edge softness there is from this lens.

I don't start thinking or worrying about DOF until after about 35mm with my zooms. f/4 gives you comfortable DOF in most situations wide-open that I don't have to worry about getting 1/2 a face in focus - it's one of the nice things about them. When I switch to primes, or put the 24-70mm f/2.8 on, then it's almost always with an eye towards narrow DOF and that's when I start thinking about it.
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Thank you for the explanation. :) One of the things I miss about current lenses is the DOF scale on them. I used to make use of it. No smart phone right now so no apps to use...gotta get my ipod out and put a DOF app on it then carry it with me. ;)
 
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Thank you for the explanation. :) One of the things I miss about current lenses is the DOF scale on them. I used to make use of it. No smart phone right now so no apps to use...gotta get my ipod out and put a DOF app on it then carry it with me. ;)
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There's always LiveView and the DOF preview buttons to check before you click as well. If I need to be certain I zoom in on LiveView and move around.
 
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