{"id":13597,"date":"2011-11-22T14:08:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T19:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/?p=13597"},"modified":"2011-11-23T00:07:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T05:07:51","slug":"m-n-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/m-n-m\/","title":{"rendered":"M n M"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tech Notes: Above, an out of camera image with the 105mm Micro VR.<\/p>\n

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Following images are edited in different ways.\u00a0 Some over the top in terms of color shifts, but different people, different likes.<\/p>\n

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Tech Notes: The Nikon 85mm f\/1.4D has great bokeh, but the way it also renders out of focus elements in the foreground isn’t pursued by many people.\u00a0 The next images track my train of thought for a particular scene and series of shots.\u00a0 Again, shooting digitally is more about working out your ideas in real time.<\/p>\n

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Nice lenses render life in a different way, so there’s no shame in taking a picture and viewing it on the screen immediately to see how colors and depth of field look like.\u00a0 I still find it funny how\u00a0 “real” photographers try their hardest not to view their work on the back of camera, as if that’s something lesser image makers do.\u00a0 It’s a tool for visual confirmation of your own composition choices, nothing more, not a crutch.\u00a0 It’s digital photography, not oil painting.<\/p>\n

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The color of this Japanese maple was really impressive.\u00a0 Last week the theme was yellow, this time UGA red. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Like a painting, you’d want to tie a subject and background together with similar colors, like the small floral pattern and real leaves.<\/p>\n

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In the first image the tree branch is a bit distracting, so I move around to get a little more painterly image.<\/p>\n

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With a fixed lens you have to zoom with your feet.\u00a0 Some compositions and situations require a zoom lens, but the rendering of a prime is almost always “better.”\u00a0 Also, when certain lenses are mounted on crop cameras giving you the field of view that is similar to a full frame portrait lens, like a 50mm on an APS-C camera, you still don’t get the optical qualities of the higher class lens.<\/p>\n

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A couple of snaps later and got an image that I was happy with due to the expression, and red, white and blue color scheme.<\/p>\n

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Fujifilm X100, Edited with Silkypix<\/p><\/div>\n

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Snapseed on iPad<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nikon J1 video capture and Snapseed on iPad<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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