I went out and photographed a daylily. I wanted to see the results of the different aperture settings and the bokeh. I also wanted to find the "sweet spot" for my new lens. Here's the results at different aperture settings:
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| 85mm, f1.8, 1/8000, ISO 100 |
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| 85mm, f4, 1/2000, ISO 100 |
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| 85mm, f8, 1/500, ISO 100 |
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| 85mm, f11, 1/250, ISO 100 |
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| 85mm, f16, 1/125, ISO 110 |
I set my D7k to Aperture mode and since the flower was in bright sunlight I set the exposure to -0.7. My post production (PP) changes included cropping, adding copyright notice, and reducing the file size for posting on the web.
2 comments:
So what would you say is your sweet spot? I notice the flower as well as the background is less distant the wider the aperture or is it that you have a much narrower dof?
I have not found the sweet spot yet. I'll need to take more pictures of different objects/subjects. My main purpose for this lens is portraits. It appears that it might be a great general lens as well.
You are correct in regards to the wider aperture.
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