Creative Photography 🌵hread v11: Shoot to Kill

[Dbot090]

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Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II. For $100 you really can't beat it and if you have a good enough crop body Canon I think its a must. Just shoot around 2.0 because you get the same bokeh with a little bit more sharpness.

[wauterboi]

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Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II. For $100 you really can't beat it and if you have a good enough crop body Canon I think its a must. Just shoot around 2.0 because you get the same bokeh with a little bit more sharpness.[/QUOTE]
I'm an absolute photography noob - would that also be good for macro shots?

[Dbot090]

[QUOTE=wauterboi;50030575]I'm an absolute photography noob - would that also be good for macro shots?[/QUOTE]

Yes and no. I think this is much more suited for portrait photography but i've done some macro with it. I think after a little while you wished you saved your money for something a little better. For a beginner it would be good to have for macro though.

[wauterboi]

[QUOTE=Dbot;50030609]Yes and no. I think this is much more suited for portrait photography but i've done some macro with it. I think after a little while you wished you saved your money for something a little better. For a beginner it would be good to have for macro though.[/QUOTE]

I think it would be nice to have as an alternate lens. It seems to have a stronger focus than what mine has now - it keeps too much in focus as it is now and it doesn't help with contrast.

[Maloof?]

Found a little friend today

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[Winston]

Peregrine falcon doing aerial battle with a raven

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[codenamecueball]

the stm 50 1.8 is far superior in terms of build etc than the 1.8 ii

[hipsterhendrix]

[QUOTE=codenamecueball;50032573]the stm 50 1.8 is far superior in terms of build etc than the 1.8 ii[/QUOTE]

1.8 ii feels like a cheap knockoff of something, its still a decent lens but you are literally paying for what you get

[Zeemlapje]

it's called the 'plastic fantastic' for a reason

[Maloof?]

I wish the background worked better in supporting the rest of the composition, ugh

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[/B/rother]

it seems generally unsharp, but otherwise you would've been able to transfer that beast onto another background.

[Trogdon]

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[hipsterhendrix]

[QUOTE=Zeemlapje;50033981]it's called the 'plastic fantastic' for a reason[/QUOTE]

I have never heard that one but that is probably the best name you could give it

[wauterboi]

That last image is great. It's moody and dark and reminds me of noir stuff for some reason.

[Biscuit-Boy]

Seems noir due to the high contrast light with sharp shadows and face not fully illuminated- a very distinctively noir aesthetic. Furniture and attire of the model also doesn't really date the photo so you can imagine it's much older. And ofc Trog is either shooting on film or editing to look as film as he and a lot of others will often do(no exif though)

[LurkingKing]

Took a two week trip through England, Ireland, and Scotland last year. Sorry for the photo dump, but there was a ton of pictures. Not the best pictures, but I'm not much of a photographer.

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[la🅱️🅱️et]

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[Zeemlapje]

^ hell yes I love that digital high-ISO aesthetic

[codenamecueball]

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[la🅱️🅱️et]

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[editline]1st April 2016[/editline]

easter phoats

[BigJoeyLemons]

Anyone here ever try Lomochrome Purple?
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[foreverforum]

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[ignhelper]

Hello from Baden Wurttemburg. In stuttgart today.

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[Maloof?]

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[ignhelper]

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[editline]3rd April 2016[/editline]

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[Maya2008]

So I bought a DSLR (Nikkon D5500).
Picking up photography right now.
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[ignhelper]

The bird and the last two are great

keep it up!

[Trogdon]

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[la🅱️🅱️et]

^ Those are fucking beautiful man ^

i've been shooting a lot more recently, sorry for page hogging

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theres hardly any to no post on these photos, this is shot on a stylus epic 35-70 zoom and ektar. They really came out that pale.

[Biscuit-Boy]

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Some extras, please lmk if you think any of these are better than the three I chose. It was really, really hard to narrow them down since they're all very different.
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edit: Also IGN I really really like "alleyways-1", very cool