Thursday, September 9, 2010

Back to School Outdoor Portraits - Junior

I stepped out to play around with the Canon EF50mm f/1.4 USM. This is a great everday lens that forces a photographer to move themself for composition instead of becoming lazy with the usual standard Zoom Kit lenses. The f/1.4 adds some great Bokeh and I wanted to put it through the ringer. I wanted to shoot it with white backgrounds, contrasting backgrounds, greens, browns, blues, and especially whites. I also wanted to see how it shot for Sepia, B&W, along with keeping colors faithful.

I wanted to shoot this using natural light w/no diffusers, reflectors, or grey cards as well. I placed the white balance on Sunny, dropped the ISO to 100, and ran manual focus to get the detail you see below.
(click on any of these images to see them up close)

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Overall, I'm definately impressed with the lens, however I want to control my DOF more, and shrink that focus zone down a bit. My next time out, I'll be playing with the Canon EF85mm f/1.8 USM.