Originally posted by Kameraten I works around 19 mm, corners may get a little fuzzy. Another option is a Vivitar Series 1 19-35 mm f3,5-4,5. Doesn't look like a quality lens but it actually holds it's own against the 12-24 and has a nicer bokeh.
Got any samples of that lens for us to have a peek at? Really I couldn't say no to this deal I scored for the 12-24. It goes for over $1K(AUD) new and I got a mint copy (basically used a handful of times) for only $400AUD. I have the KP as well so knew that if the results were less than stella on the K-1 then the KP would still have a friend.
What I really like about using Crop lenses on FF mode (if you can get away with it) is that the DoF becomes way more pronounced and I feel offers a few more applications to the lens than what their intended home can achieve. I illustrated this recently with the HD DA 20-40 and DA 12-24 on the K-1 tripodded and comparing between crop mode and FF mode. Focus is on the blue bauble
K-1 + DA 12-24, Crop Mode
Shot at 14mm in crop mode, this gives a 21mm equivalent in FF mode, shot f4, but is presenting more like what a
f6 shot would be like on FF.
K-1 + DA 12-24, FF Mode
Shot at 21mm in FF mode, f4, notice how now the
out of focus areas are more pronounced due to 'really being f4', whereas f4 on crop bodies is behaving more like f6 for FF.
One more from a recent gig;
Pushing it a bit at 19mm here, but the distortion is not too bad. We liked the context of the shot, a close group of friends with their bairns, the two fellas on the verandah, all of the house in the shot as well as the cute foreground tree thingy. Neat that this can be done. Just a shame the sky wasn't a little bit 'happier' but at least it has texture.
Originally posted by gatorguy Bruce, I've seen you post up images before similar in feel to that first one that look to be variations on a specific collection of LR settings. Are you starting out with a certain preset and adjusting it to the scene as required? I love the soft hazy look you give some of your shots, which typically are compelling images anyway if you don't mind my saying. You're quite good.
Thanks heaps for the compliment, much appreciated.
This year I've done more professional jobs and have taken time to reflect on my workflow and how I can improve upon my efficiency. The main hurdle I have right now is at what time to employ the 'style' of the shot (including monochroming a shot). When you work for someone else it can be important to be flexible, you might think mono is best for this shot, you may have even deliberately taken the shot at the time with settings biased towards a favourable mono outcome, but if you deliver the mono to the client and they want colour... then... yeh.
Most of my work this year stemmed from getting a style/look
first and then doing some of the harder photoshop stuff after (like advanced cloning/skin fixing). The problem with this is two things;
1) the skin work is applied to the style. so if you want to go back and change the style it also means repeating the skin work (ZZz....)
2) If you do it the other way around and apply the more advanced PS skin work first and deciding on style after then you're working on a TIFF file, and the (bought) tools available in LR to use to assist with styling are not playing ball so nicely in this regard.
If you really want to go down this rabbit hole you're welcome to watch a couple of recent vids I put out on this specific topic (as I was reaching out for help/advice);
Part 1;
Part 2;
So currently I am trialling this workflow, its not 100% complete, such as when I backup is left out, but this is more of a workflow chart from the time i eject the sd cards from the camera (top left) and export the image for the client or myself. The drawback is definitely doing the style after and not having it as accurate as intended and perhaps steering the TIFF file version more towards its DNG counterpart (but that's probably the lesser of two evils);
So yeah, a large part of the look my images have will be in part due to presets and 3Dluts, how they are applied, what intensity, opacity and such.
Originally posted by TerryL Very nice.
Thank you Terry.