Thanks, she is a big sweetheart :-)
Exposure was not so easy, bright window in the background and the shot was hand held, but using a polarizer and shooting at f1.2 certainly helped.
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Last edited by Agon; July 19, 2007 at 18:40.
Reason: was f1.2 not f1.8 :-)
HTcO,
Sun light is always reflected at you (camera) at a predefined angle, this angle depends on the your position relatively to the sun.
A polarizer has the ability (variable ability actually, the front of the filter rotates so you can have more or less efect) to block more or less reflected light, the result is that surfaces are less shinny, and since the polarizer does not block colored reflected light, color are richer and deeper. On the negative, it is easy to understand images can get darker, with a polarizer you loose one full stop of light.
As an easy example, if you aim your camera at a pond in a sunny day and take a photo, you will see barely nothing bellow the water line, if you use a polarizer, it will block the surface light reflection and you will have an image almost to the bottom of the pond.
This is not the best images, but it will show what I mean about reflections:
Without polarizer:
With polarizer:
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Thanks for info Agon! It's really interesting to know. While never do any professional photos i think it'll be somehow useful in 3D - for adding some reallistic render's effects and etc.
I think everyone likes goodqualitymade (hope english language can hold this word.... ) photos like posted one above.
Again! Thanks for info Agon! :)
P.S.: sorry for english...
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Very nice, must be a uber good lens, 1.8 + no blue fringing on high contrast areas.
Did you apply a lot of post processing?
edit: Are you willing to share the exif data
Checking on the EXIF, it is actually f1.2 , but then again I am not surprised, this lens cost me £1600 (about $3000) , it is a Canon 85mm L f1.2 Mark II
It is likely one of my favorites and even the best Canon lens, I have about a dozens lenses though and vary a lot, I have a range from 16mm to 600mm. The filter alone was over £100 and of course the camera was something like £4800
I did almost ZERO PP(dodge in the teeth) , almost all you see was done in Lightroom (there was no vignetting, I added it myself in Lightroom), I obviously shoot in RAW.
Are you into digital/film photography ? I can give you my MSN if you ever have questions or me have some for you :-)
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yep would be cool.
Currently i own the olympus E300 with standard lens kit, but planning on buying a fish eye lens without uber distortion but their +- 1500$ but then i'm stucked with the Olympus, and well, wish it had a bigger CCD because shooting above 400iso is just a rgb noise party...(in other words, i'm drooling about your Kit)
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