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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-02-2011, 08:59 AM
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Really like #4 and the last one, Downfall!
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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-01-2011, 08:21 PM
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Thanks! The pianist is Jeff Jenkins. Plays all around Colorado; you may well have seen him somewhere.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-31-2011, 08:16 PM
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I've shot most of my fellow jazz musicians in the area, and most of them know my work, Occasionally I am asked to shoot some particular gig, and we usually work out some sort of trade. Every once in a while, someone will ask me to do posed promo shots. Not my specialty, but what the heck. Today I did a session with a husband/wife pianist/singer that wanted some "staged" shots for use as promo, but we also took a few for themselves as a couple.
The husband also runs a recording studio, so we used his space. The black curtain he normally uses for sound dampening served as our backdrop. I brought a cheap hardware-store clip-on shop light which we attached to a music stand. A mic stand held my collapsible diffuser. Space was tight, so we were forced to use unusually short lenses. Even though I'm not really used to this mode of working, I think we got some nice stuff, and we all had fun.
First two are DA40, last one DA15 (!).
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-23-2011, 11:38 AM
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If it had been minimum focus distance, I doubt you'd have fit in the whole face.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-23-2011, 08:49 AM
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Just a few "DA Limited" images from a recent jazz festival that I mostly shot with my DA50-200 and M120/2.8:
DA15:
DA70:
DA70:
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DA40:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-06-2011, 10:15 PM
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A few more from my trio:
DA15:
DA40:
DA70:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-03-2011, 04:08 PM
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I really like the first grass shot above!
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-02-2011, 03:31 PM
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Here are some shots from each of my three DA Limiteds.
DA15:
DA40:
DA70:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
09-29-2010, 06:08 PM
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A tradition in Colorado, as in many places, is a weekend drive in the fall to see the leaves changing. In Colorado, the only new color is usually the gold of the aspens, but that's enough to make it worthwhile. Here are some of my shots from Sunday.
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DA70:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
08-02-2010, 09:47 PM
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I hadn't used the DA40 so much lately, but it got a nice workout the last few days shooting candids and not-so-candids of the nephews and niece. I really find the lens perfect for this application - slightly narrow than normal FOV cuts out the unnecessary stuff and is more flattering, and with DOF already shallow enough at f/2.8 that it's difficult to get two people in focus at once, it's actually kind of nice not to be tempted to go to a larger aperture (rationalization? maybe :-)
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-16-2010, 02:45 PM
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A few DA Limited shots from the same concert (Jerry Hahn Quartet) as the "M" shots I just posted in that club.
DA70:
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DA15 (sorry, nothing particular artistic/dramatic about this usage here):
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Forum: Lens Clubs
07-14-2010, 10:04 AM
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If you think the 21mm will be your favorite focal length (it wouldn't be mine), then I'd say that's the one to get - that should really trump the other concerns. The DA21 is also small, two years from now you'll have forgotten the difference in price, and as for macro, chances are if you really do macro you'll want a longer lens soon enough.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-22-2010, 12:11 PM
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My impression is the opposite - the M series lenses (and K and other older series, while nice and "solid", feel "clunky" to me compared to the DA Limiteds. A lot of this is subjective, of course.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-19-2010, 01:58 PM
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My wife and I shot JazzFest Denver this year (as we did last year). I psoted some DA15 shots in the "DA15 Controls My Mind" thread, but here are some from the DA40 and DA70:
Here's another shot (in addition to the last one from the DA15 post) where I'm shooting - with permission from right on stage behind painist Orrin Evans, with saxphonist Bobby Watson looking on. Taken with the DA40:
For some reason, it amused me to see that Orrin was, in some cases, playing from the Bobby Watson volume of the Aebersold Play-A-Long series. Jazz musicians out there will "get" this right away. For the rest of you, imagine being a professional photographer being hired by Bryan Peterson to work as his assistant, and you looking things up in "Understanding Exposure" while on the job. Again, DA40:
A student group, shot with the DA70. I always like these "lineup" shots:
Again, having total access is really nice. DA70 was the longest lens I used on stage:
For some reasn this shot seems "lonely", maybe because it's not a tight shot at all but there's no one else visible in the frame. DA70:
The stage is just high enough off the ground to get some interesting angles by "looking up" from the floor - again, DA70:
Every once in a while, a bright reflection work in your favor. Once more, DA70:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-15-2010, 06:23 PM
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So I'm at this outdoor concert last night, and I'm shooting from where I am sitting maybe 20 yards back. I see others walking right up in front of the stage and taking pictures, so I try to do the same with my K200D and the DA50-200 I had mounted at the time. I get right up against the stage along with a few others with their P&S cameras, and I manage to squeeze off a few shots, but a security guy comes over and stops me the moment I turn the zoom ring and the lens extends, saying they have a policy against "big" lenses. A common enough thing, I guess, as they don't want people getting "pro" quality shots. Big lens = pro lens in their minds. I offered to change it for the M135/3.5 I had in my pocket, but it was still too big for him. So I walked back to my blanket and returned with the DA70 mounted (sans hood, just to be sure). Security guard is fine with that - after all, something as small as the DA70 can't possibly take pictures as good as that big old DA50-200!
The lighting was that evil red/blue LED stuff folks were talking about recently in the DSLR forum, so sorry about the color on these. All taken with the DA70:
Chick Corea:
[imgtall]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4042/4704367103_980eb69c8c_b.jpg[/imgtall]
Kenny Garrett:
[imgtall]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4067/4705006836_a997ec6448_b.jpg[/imgtall]
Christian McBride:
[imgtall]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4042/4705007042_01283a3c0b_b.jpg[/imgtall]
Roy Haynes:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
06-10-2010, 09:01 AM
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Note: if you surround your image URL with "IMG" tags (or use the little button right above where you type your message to do it for you), then it displays your image directly, rather than simply making a link to it.
Here are some recent shots from my stable of DA Limiteds.
DA15:
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[imgtall]http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1271/4687643985_6bb37b8c22_b.jpg[/imgtall]
DA40:
[imgtall]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4007/4688276486_f075950e90_b.jpg[/imgtall]
DA70:
[imgtall]http://marcsabatella.zenfolio.com/img/s7/v7/p491421121-6.jpg[/imgtall]
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-07-2010, 02:31 PM
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Thanks! It was Pedro's first visit to the outside - we've been keeping him indoors thus far. But as I write this, a friend is building a cage so he can go outside and still be protected (from other cats, from foxes and hawks, and from running into the street). We'll probably still allow him to run around the yard occasionally, since our other cat has always been alloed to do so. But she seems more street smart.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-06-2010, 07:56 PM
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DA70:
DA15:
[IMGTALL]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4070/4584724626_0e8af1b8d8_b.jpg[/IMGTALL]
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Forum: Lens Clubs
05-01-2010, 07:45 PM
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Normally more of a "bush" than a "tree", but these are lilacs.
Nice images! Ours won't bloom for another week or two...
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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-28-2010, 08:08 PM
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DA70:
[imgtall]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3595/4561473959_c616f439f1_b.jpg[/imgtall]
DA15:
DA40:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-30-2010, 03:16 PM
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Thanks!
My DA70 hardly ever gets used in daylight, so I rarely get to see it stopped down at low ISO or at low ISO. Every time I do, though, I'm kind of taken back again by how good it is. Here's Pedro in the late afternoon sun:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-22-2010, 11:13 PM
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Thanks! It's an English Horn - an overgrown oboe (which he also also plays, along with bass clarinet and various saxophones). The musician is Paul McCandless.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-22-2010, 11:45 AM
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More from my Limiteds.
DA70:
DA40:
DA15:
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-14-2010, 08:50 AM
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You don't say what lenses you already own. The DA35 is actually a great focal length for landscapes, I think; it's kind of a myth that most landscapes are shot much wider than that (although some clearly are). On the other hand, if you have the kit lens, you have something that does a passable job for landscapes. Whereas the DA70 will certainly out-portrait any other lens you are likely to own, by a pretty big margin.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-12-2010, 03:14 PM
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Once again I tried to summon the courage to capture musicians at close range with the DA15. Yeah, I can imagine very cool things happening if I can ever bring myself to go just a bit further, but these will have to do for now:
The venue is the Donald R. Seawell Ballroom at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Here's a shot of the center itself:
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