Mum, snow, and a new lens
Today was my first serious play with my new lens, the canon 50mm 1.8 mk 2. As primes go it’s a cheap as they come, cheap as chips build quality etc, but it’s a very sharp bit of kit.
Subject for the day, my Mum. It’s snowed, loads.
Things to note: Metering a black coat in the snow is HARD. In the end I set to manual and chimped like hell, and I still over exposed everything slightly. Alas.
Shooting with a prime forces you to make good use of foot zoom. You really notice the issues when you don’t have much room to back up.
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I think you did really well with these. And yes prime lenses have their benefits, but lack of space makes it an issue. I have that problem when shooting crowd events and dancing
lensaddiction
December 6, 2010 at 8:59 am
I agree with you, primes are fantastic when you have lots of space to manoeuver, but I suspect the best sort of lens for portraits is something like a 24-105 or 70-200 if working at distance. I don’t have the money for those yet though.
Thank for the comments.
James
December 6, 2010 at 10:25 am