50mm lens Opinion Video

Hi all

I decided to have a go at a quick video talking about 50mm lens for Canon DSLRs. I used the 5D Mark III/ 24-70II, Rode microphone, Metz 320-Led Mecalight with orange gel (to colour balance the ambient indoor light). I controlled it from a Windows 8.1 Toshiba tablet running Eos utility - this made focussing and starting / stopping the video quite easy. I went with f/4 as an aperture setting.

Recording set up:

Benj the dog!

A quick preview of a shoot today. Challenging on a number of fronts - I was concerned with getting the exposure right so as to retain detail in both the dark and light areas of fur. It was also more than tricky getting dear Benj to stay the right place without the owners hands on him!

 

I lit Benj with a 70cm gridded silver beauty dish camera left - this gives a directional punchy light and pleasing catchlights in the eyes. I also had a gridded reflector shooting in from behind Benj on camera right to assist separation from the background.

 

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/8 @ 70 mm, 1/125, ISO 100

 

O2 Arena at night

View from Emirates Air Line cable car.

 

Canon EOS 5D Mark III, f/2.8 @ 55 mm, 1/60, ISO 2500, No Flash

The Lamp

Canon EOS 5D Mark III, f/1.2 @ 50 mm, ISO 100, No Flash

 

Muscles

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/8 @ 50 mm, 1/125, ISO 100,

Sarah in shorts!

A fun shot taken at the end of our shoot!

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/2.8 @ 53 mm, 1/200, ISO 100, Flash

Francis Solo

@Lencarta gridded strip softboxes either side.

 



Kodak No.2 Bulls-Eye

This fascinating camera dates back to 1896. The virtual camera museum has a 360 view of it here.

There is more information on it here.

It has a different holes in the plate at the top so there are multiple apertures. The shutter speed has two settings - you can control how far the circular plates swings round.

Shot was 3 exposures on the 5DIII and 24-70II combined in Efex HDR.

SnapBack

Just the colour in the jeans

White on black (NSFW)

Taken with @Lencarta Studio lights and @Lastolite HiLite

Kayleigh and Francis

Firstly, a huge thank you to everyone who views my blog - I was just browsing the stats and noticed I've had over 30,000 visits!

Kayleigh had an idea for a shoot inspired by the Calvin Klein jeans adverts. Her friend Francis agreed to join the shoot.

Here are a couple of early edits.

 

Normal For Norfolk II

Sandringham House and Gardens

Castle Acre Castle, Norfolk

First post after a short hiatus - got a good internet connection now! (On holiday for a couple of weeks - first property had no internet!)

Taken with the super-sharp 24-70II and the 1DsIII - series of 3 shots combined in Photomatix.

Adelle the Geek

The bells

Processed in Nik Efex using the pinhole preset.

Reading on the window seat

I really liked this candid - I love the natural light and felt a mono conversion worked well.

The Globe in the Library

Adelle with off-camera flash

I was annoyed that I didn't have any flash modifiers or stands with me for this shoot, but here I simply laid the flash on the grass to avoid totally flat light. A softbox would have been better though.