The new photography thread

[G-Bear]

although if you are shelling out for a 5D MkIII then you really should be shelling out for Canon pro-glass to make the most of it.

This is quite a key point.

Your set up is only ever as good as you weakest component.

Not much to be gained from having an high end camera body/digital chip and putting a bottom end lens on.

Although I would have thought theres more to be gained from having good optics on on a lesser chip than vise versa.

Also as attractive as fisheye lenses are and the asethetic they create. It is a bit limiting to what it can be applied to. A wide angle lens is far more dynamic. But thats just my thought on it all.

[suchy]

Not much to be gained from having an high end camera body/digital chip and putting a bottom end lens on.

Although I would have thought theres more to be gained from having good optics on on a lesser chip than vise versa.

Probably correct! Good quality glass with clear optics and minimal vignetting/fall off is probably better yes!

[dusty23]

Although its no always about how much you spend, take for example the 50mm 1.8 canon plastic lens, £80, great looking lens and probably the best lens pound for pound in the world!

To be honest I don't a huge amount of photography, I work in film but the comparisons of glass is still similar.

if you have a spare 100k buy this, best lens I've ever used bar none.

http://www.angenieux.com/zoom-lenses/ci ... 24-290.htm

[suchy]

if you have a spare 100k buy this, best lens I've ever used bar none.

http://www.angenieux.com/zoom-lenses/ci ... 24-290.htm

That's a heavy lens!!!

[dusty23]

Yes it bloody is! definitely not handheld! mounted on rails as it would just snap the mount straight off the camera. Beautiful results though with very good range.

They shot most of skyfall on it and loads of other things

[suchy]

Yes it bloody is! definitely not handheld! mounted on rails as it would just snap the mount straight off the camera. Beautiful results though with very good range.

They shot most of skyfall on it and loads of other things

I would expect a lot from a £100k lens!!

[G-Bear]

Although its no always about how much you spend, take for example the 50mm 1.8 canon plastic lens, £80, great looking lens and probably the best lens pound for pound in the world!

I completely agree. Its easy to get caught up in technicalities... just like I have in the last few posts. But its good to have an understanding of whats out there, then make you own decisions.

Some characteristic failures mentioned can be quite nice.

To be honest my knowledge of actual cameras and lenses is limited too. I work in photography mainly, but more in assisting lighting of shoots and a little bit of digital operating.

dusty23 are you a camera operator..?

[dusty23]

Although its no always about how much you spend, take for example the 50mm 1.8 canon plastic lens, £80, great looking lens and probably the best lens pound for pound in the world!

I completely agree. Its easy to get caught up in technicalities... just like I have in the last few posts. But its good to have an understanding of whats out there, then make you own decisions.

Some characteristic failures mentioned can be quite nice.

To be honest my knowledge of actual cameras and lenses is limited too. I work in photography mainly, but more in assisting lighting of shoots and a little bit of digital operating.

dusty23 are you a camera operator..?

I still operate a fair bit, I recently started my own company and we do all the way from pre to post production.

We specialize in high speed and aerial work.

[G-Bear]

I still operate a fair bit, I recently started my own company and we do all the way from pre to post production.

We specialize in high speed and aerial work.

Nice, do you have a website or link to a show reel.

I gaffered on a job last week where they used the epic for high speed 120fps, made even a chap jumping up and down on a couch look interesting.

I'm trying to get into moving image a bit more, aiming in the direction of sparks then hopefully onto gaffering.

[dusty23]

Thats a good route in as you will understand lighting along with all the other technical aspects which are the most important elements of the shoot.

120fps that's no high speed!! Only joking I just hear this quite often. We shoot up to 25,000 frames(only for bullets etc..) for human movement you don't need much more 300fps really. Some sports stuff we do up to 1200 but not much higher.

Here is some aerial work.


And an old high speed reel from my previous company.

[G-Bear]

They're great. I love the arial stuff in the trees. I was on a job last summer where the film crew had a huge jib that would lock on one point and not move off it regardless wherever the boom was swung... all very impressive stuff.

Agh yes I guess 120fps isn't that impressive. I remember once working on (an unusual job for me) job documenting ballistic tests for armoured vehicles, there were a couple there doing high speed filming for that probably more like the 25'000 frames.. the camera looked home made

Yes I hope that my stills background will help. I'm just finishing up a course in Electrical installation to help me along the way..

Anyway, all very lovely stuff in that show reel.

[dusty23]

They're great. I love the arial stuff in the trees. I was on a job last summer where the film crew had a huge jib that would lock on one point and not move off it regardless wherever the boom was swung... all very impressive stuff.

Agh yes I guess 120fps isn't that impressive. I remember once working on (an unusual job for me) job documenting ballistic tests for armoured vehicles, there were a couple there doing high speed filming for that probably more like the 25'000 frames.. the camera looked home made

Yes I hope that my stills background will help. I'm just finishing up a course in Electrical installation to help me along the way..

Anyway, all very lovely stuff in that show reel.

Cheers

Yeah similar tech to whats in the jib you used, always will lock the horizon.

The camera we use was made for ballistics, we approached olympus and asked them if we could try it out for film purposes, we now help them with R&D in exchange for constant use of the camera which is pretty sweet.

Good luck, and remember one thing, never make a cup of tea for anyone the pretentious c**nts can make it themselves!

[G-Bear]

Sound advise. I've been working long enough in the industry to have a calm yet very low tolerance for idiots. Both stills and moving image are full of them..

[Kos]

Kos some lovely work in the last few pages..

Thank you, I've got some more to follow

[Kos]

double post !

[Cook318IS]

Went to Rally Prep, took photos of Chris Harris's M3 that they were building. I've bought a domain now that more are available, but it doesn't hyperlink yet and it only redirects to my facebook page for the moment. I've sorted out my editing shit out now too, oak table, steelcase leap ergonomic chair, apple cinema display and soon i'll either go for the bose companion 5 speakers or a pioneer 5.1 AV system.

[sunnyr83]

I'm starting to get into strobist/off camera flash a lot more now, introduced it to wedding receptions and ceremony's last year instead of just on the camera bouncing of a ceiling or whatever.

Gave it a go on cars, I admit I'm still learning the whole thing as it can be a challenge to master correctly.
Some examples using 2/3 speedlights and pocket wizards.
Thanks goes to Kos for driving around location hunting as well as chasing a MG driver with a DUB logo on his boot just to get a picture to later abuse on FB...






Flashes left in on purpose..

[Cook318IS]

Not a bad start! Its a whole new experience when you start using flash. What pocketwizards are you using? I'm firing emails back and forth from PW at the moment with my incredibly bad quality Flex tt5's i've been sent.

[sunnyr83]

Thanks Paul.
Mine are the Plus ii.
Whats wrong with yours then?

[Cook318IS]

The are such a bad fit on the hotshoe i can twist it and set the flashes off or they wont fire. I've tried it on my 5dmk2 and my 7d and theyre both the same. Tried my mates tt5 and its absolutely fine, a much better fit! The company i bought them from sent me a new one after 3 weeks, but its exactly the same poor fit. He's now blaming my cameras (which is obviously isnt) so i've gone directly to pocketwizard.

[sunnyr83]

What a joke! blaming the camera.

[Jesus325iTouring]

Now i'm no photographer, but I just came across this photo I took several years ago.

The story is, my son told me there was a bat in my loft, so, I switched off the all the lights, total proper pitch black. The thought was, the bat might settle and i may be able to catch and release it (no bats live in our loft).

So, I thought I'd just use the camera flash for very quick glimpses to see where it was.

Little did I know, the first quick flash to see if I could see the bat, I managed to catch the bat flying towards me, total total pure luck!!!

Worth posting up I thought........

[DanThe]

Cracking pic, and loft, bet the kids love it

[Jesus325iTouring]

Cheers Dan, the big boys have moved on and my little boys might be a bit scared up there! Its double roofed, would make an amazing bedroom Insurance could be an issue as a bedroom

[Cook318IS]

Some people may remember Jay1980 on here. Well after moving on from E30's, a few cars later he returned to Porsches. Here's a behind the scene style shot of his 911 track car.

[Kos]

Isn't this the guy I bough C111CNT from ?

BTW Great picture

[Cook318IS]

Yup! The same guy! Cheers Kos, the set isn't looking to bad tbh.

[manse73]

Some people may remember Jay1980 on here. Well after moving on from E30's, a few cars later he returned to Porsches. Here's a behind the scene style shot of his 911 track car.

Love this car. Jay and my family did lunch a few months ago in brixham harbour. Food was good but the porka was better. Amazing picture aswell

[Cook318IS]

Cheers! Jay is a top lad, I don't see him often these days but I think i've known him for a good 7 odd years now! How time flies!

Don't know if this interests some of the wedding photography related people but I did some shots at my cousins wedding recently. (Well... I turned up 20 minutes early to the wedding to find out that he had no photographer and wanted me to do them. So had to make the best of a bad situation - no spare batteries/cards only the one body, a 85mm and a 24-105mm). I went to buy a proper wedding presentation heart USB, so got one of these for £10 delivered. Not a bad little way to present the wedding photos in my opinion. It does have a magnet in it though, how this effects the usb i'm not sure.

[Cook318IS]

So, gave my cousin the wedding photos. I got some really nice shots, presented on that usb stick and I didn't even get as much as a thankyou! Can't say i'm particularly pleased.

Anyway, been trying a couple of more brenizers, some of the framing is a little bit off from either not placing the shots better or people walking into one of the shots and not being able to edit them out easy enough.







I'm still in love with my 85mm though, it rarely comes off the camera. Looking at the sigma 35mm f1.4 though, which I might try and hire from somewhere for castle hill car festival or Retro rides gathering.

[Kos]

as I'm slowly transferring my date from the old la top tot he new mac, i thought id share some of my older photos







ive also recently upped my game and got my self a sony A77 and few new lenses. i think i'm starting to get carried away !!
the most recent addition is a tamrom F2.8 28-75. this will be the pretty much permanent fixture to the A77's body.

i'm also itching to go to london and put the recently acquired 11-18 wide angle to use

finally, i've taken the steps to launch my own page on FB, well i say my own, Sunny83 is contributing to it

I wanted to show case my detailing work and he wanted to show case the automotive photography he does but keep it separate to the wedding and portrait work he does. as i also enjoy automotive photography i thought it was no brainer to add a photography element to the page which we both contribute to

https://www.facebook.com/cunit.automotive


we've hitting the shows and building up a portfolio, heres a few of mine but plenty more one line from both of us

[Cook318IS]

Some lovely shots! I enjoy seeing your + Sunny's stuff pop up on fb + instagram. I especially like that lamp shot you've posted up!

[Kos]

Cheers paul

It's always good to get feed back more so when it's positive

I love that lamp shot too, that was taken a few years back with the old A300 and kit lens !!

Ive got to say that some of your stuff is bang on the money.

You need to come to London some time and we'll go on an evening photo shoot ! I was down butlers wharf last night and I thought about taking my camera and I bloody should have !

Google it and you'll know why !

[Cook318IS]

It certainly sounds like you've got the photography bug anyway! Alot of my stuff im not happy with to be honest haha. I was in Kent funnily enough about 2 weeks ago on a course but i didnt have much spare time unfortunately I'll have to pop up at somepoint without a doubt, one of my mates has moved up around london somewhere anyway so it's a good excuse to see him too haha!

That butlers wharf place looks pretty awesome! Especially in one of the sunset pictures i just saw!

[Cook318IS]

I've got a bit of a thing for 911's at the moment, I saw a couple more at wiscombe park hill climb over the weekend.









Looking at buying the Sigma 35mm f1.4 too, i love my 85mm but sometimes it's just too "close" and doing a brenizer type of photo doesn't always work. My first non canon lens but the reviews say it's sharper than the canon f1.4L (and it's cheaper!)