The Art of Perception

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Evening Shot with Chinon 55mm F1.4

What a joy to walk around with this lens. F1.4 gives me a truely mysterious andwonderful bokeh no matter what object I shoot at. Low light performance is sweet as well. Time to share! All shots taken in F1.4 and ISO 200, shutter speed varies.

First up, some cats and dogs

Next up, portraits and one candid

Faces of a newborn

Ah Love!

Street Shot!

One shot of a vibrant plant

Next, abstracts!

Inspired by starbucks advert if i remembered correctly, but mines still too far from those standards xD

Thats all for now! More images to come as Im really free this week xD

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Shots from 2 new lens

On the left, is the Chinon 55mm F1.4 cost $130 (2nd hand)

On the right, is the Vivitar Series 1 105mm F2.5 Macro cost $400 (2nd hand)

Both lens are manual focus

First hands-on review: The image quality of the Chinon F1.4 is quite inconsistent. At times, the quality could be really sharp, but at times it could be very soft. As Shake reduction is not supported for this lens, it could be the reasons for some inconsistent shots. Bokeh is amazing, I have did some test shots which I will post in part 2. Image quality improves greatly after F2.8. However, this lens is difficult to attach and remove due to the screw mount adapter, had a hard time figuring out how to fix it, and got some dust into my sensor =( .

The Vivitar 105mm, I have heard alot of reviews on this lens saying that it is one of the best, if not the best macro lens ever made. In my humble opinion, this is indeed an amazing lens producing excellent image quality. I did my first shot on macro photography today, and am quite pleased with the result. Although image is not tact sharp, due to my inexperience in exposure control and stability control, but you can still make out the details of the insect (will be shown in part2)

Part 2 - The shots on Chinon 55mm

As you can see, bokeh looks pretty cool at F1.4, 1/25 ISO 200

F1.4, 1/1600 ISO 200

Love the naturally occuring bokeh effect this lens produce, the twirling bokeh is produced by the lens without photoshop. F1.4 1/800 ISO200.

Low light performance in ISO800. I cant remembeer the exif date, but it should be at F1.4-F2

Lovely bokeh in daylight

Below are shots using Vivitar 105mm

F2.4 1/320 ISO 800

F8 1/200 ISO200

F2.4 1/200 ISO200

50% cropped.

F2.4 1/80 ISO200, I have no idea how my camera stopped it down to 2.4 l0ls

Cropped as well. Its a really tiny bee in reality, kudos to the lens.

F8 1/30 ISO800

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Merlion Park Trip

A trip to merlion park, took a couple of HDR and 10-30seconds exposure shots. My first time taking long exposure night shots, honestly im not too pleased with the results. But I'll improve with time to come.

One of the best i took for the day

As night falls

Had to stay really still xD thats all folks!

Images taken with 18-55mm kit.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Pinnacle @ the Duxton

went to this new estate at abt 3pm. Sun was blazing hot, so i camped there till the evening at about 6pm before I took the shots. The theme for today is light of hope. Enjoy.

Feel free to C&C on how I can improve the exposure or composition on these 3 shots in my cbox

1st shot of the K-7 (random + doggies)

I will update some pics of the bokeh capibility of the kit lens, and followed by some photos of some cute doggies. All pics in this post is taken using the 18-55wr kit lens. Credits to van's sis and stan for letting me go to their place for the dog shots.

F4.5 1/200 ISO200 42mm

F4.5 1/125 ISO200 35mm

F3.5 1/100 ISO200 18mm

F3.5 1/50 ISO200 18mm

Here comes the cutiess!!!

Everything is shot in ISO 800 and really low shuttle speed w/o flash. I shall not elaborate the exif data for the doggies :) Pardon me for the blur as pics were handheld in lowlight.