******Mini-challenge 260: Primes*********

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Thank you to Samuel for hosting and judging our last challenge, which turned out to be very popular with a lot of wonderful images.

Given this is a gear forum, I thought we see what we can do with prime lenses. Some like them for the shallow depth of field, some like them for optical quality, and some like them b/c it forces us to really understand and work with a certain perspective. So please give my your shots with a prime lens. Please include the lens used in the post, and any other technical detail you like.
Challenge will end next Tuesday, 9/21 at 6pm PST.
The Rules

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Previous Mini-Challenges:
201 Patterns
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203 Thrill of the moment
204 Outdoor Pursuits
205 Architecture
206 Candid Portrait
207 Portraiture
208 Event shooting
209 The Flame does it!
210 Dramatic Clouds
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214 Three
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219 Sweet & Sour
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221 Fall
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224 Sports
225 Camera on the ground
226 City Life
227 On the Beach
228 Minimalistic
229 Edited
230 Trees
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232 Snow
233 Something Old
234 Get Over It!
235 Broken!
236 Valentine's Day
237 Where do you want to be?
238 HDR
239 Abstract
240 Signs of Spring
241 Water
242 Small World
243 The Golden Hour
244 Round and around.
245 Candid Street Photography
246 Innocence
247 Classics in 2010
248 Leading Lines
249 Old
250 Sunrise/Sunset
251 Joy/Happiness
252 Don't need No introductions
253 Compositional Balance
254 Distorted Perspective
255 Still Life With A Difference
256 The Best Photos I Ever Took
257 Children
258 Homo Sapiens In Absentia
259 Black and White
260 Primes
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This is hard, mostly because I have to remember which pics I took with primes!

These are all from the Canon 100mm f/2.8 macro (not the L with IS, it's too old for that sadly!)

Golden-mantled ground squirrel:



Lily:



Tulip:



I also have the nifty fifty which is a really fun (and incredibly light!!) lens, but I prefer the above pics.
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http://gallery.salking.co.uk
 
Some recent shots taken at the Denver Botanic Gardens.... Canon 50mm 1.8 lens

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Have a good week all...

Greg
 
The first two are great shots, but that last one is just beautiful! Love that expression and those gorgeous blue eyes!
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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held it's ground!
 










All with Canon 50mm 1.8. Thanks for looking
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jp
 
This is a medieval grave of an Indian Muslim saint located in Delhi. Taken with the T1i and the Canon 50mm f/1.8 II @ f/1.8.



 
Taken with the Canon 400 5.6
1/500 ISO 800



Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held it's ground!
 
The original transparency was taken by me 55 years ago in Japan. The camera was a Nikon with a prime lens (I don't think we had zoom lenses then). As I recal it was a fast 55mm lens. The current image was 'scanned' using a lightbox and a Canon 450D with a nifty-fifty lens.

 
I'm really curious as to how you take a picture like your third one. You shot it at 1/500s, but somehow was able to capture that blurry/ghosting effect. I'm new at photography and would really like to learn!
Some recent shots taken at the Denver Botanic Gardens.... Canon 50mm 1.8 lens

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Have a good week all...

Greg
 
This is not so easy since I shoot mainly with high quality zooms. However I decided to do my best in the spirit of the topic--that is submit pictures that WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE with even a high quality zoom.

One of the reasons I like to use primes when appropriate is that you can use large apertures to isolate the subject and the same large apertures enable you to use available light. The picture of my grandson illustrates both (Note I did use flash as fill). For this I used the Canon 85 mm f1.8 at f2.8.



Another unique use for primes is in macro photography. The picture below was taken with my Canon 180 mm f3.5 L macro lens.



Finally I would be lost without my 24 mm f3.5 L tilt shift lens. In the picture below, I used the shift mechanism to ensure straight verticals and the tilt mechanism to get basically infinite DOF to get all the writing in focus.





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Jim
http://www.pbase.com/jcassatt
 

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