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Pictures taken with different lenses at their widest opening. Which one u like

Pictures taken with different lenses at their widest opening. Which one u like

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# 3 is sharpest but # 1 is my choice.
 
OrdinarilyInordinate said:
It was between 3 and 1 for me--picked 3. I liked the higher contrast in 1, but overall there is a better balance in 3, and I liked that you can make out the plant leaves more in 3 for some context and interesting shapes against the couch texture, and an overall balance of light and color. When a background is blurred enough to be unrecognizable, it should make sense for the composition or color balance, and in this case I think the shots where the green is too blurred are not as balanced. Also the cord is distracting :)
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The cord is a necessary safety measure :)
Earlier my Subject is a RX93 Gundam, it got unballanced and fell on this window, my place is on the 6th floor. The gundam which I spend 4 days building :(. I could see at least 3 major mounts broken. :( it is a sad day. So this time I used the dimple pinch... but with something to hold it down... :(
So sorry for the cord... I would not want this bottle go to waste :).
As for the location it is the only good spot with vegetation I can see where I can setup my laptop and do tethered shoot..

Next time I go for a safer place..
 
Martin Ocando said:
Robert Evagelista said:
Feel Free to comment after you pick one.
Why di you like it... compared to others..
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Ahh, 45mm 1.8

After selecting my choice, I was gladly rewarded with the fact that it was shot with the lens I currently have on Amazon's shopping cart. Just waiting a couple days to hit Checkout :-D

I've been saving gift cards for quite some time. Is now time to collect ;-)
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Jim Salvas said:
I picked number 2 based on contrast, but number 3 seems to be the only one with the whole bottle in focus, so it wins on that count. Number 4 seems to be the favorite for bokeh, but apparently none of the other lenses actually have wide apertures at 45mm, so that's not much of a deal. If I wanted bokeh, I'd step back and shoot this with the 75 at 1.8, but that's not an available choice.

BTW, it might be interesting to see the comparison of all of them at the same aperture, which i guess would have to be f6 (which is now the 12-50, I presume).

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Jim Salvas
"You miss 100% of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky
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Jim,

I think you nailed my next plan... will compare them in f6.0.

before i posted it here, I posted it in FB... and somebody asked for a common aperture comparison also... and I told her I would do f6 also.

Like what you said this is the common maximum aperture among my 4 lenses.

Actually I would like to see f8.0 also, just to give some allowance.
 
they all look good enough to me.. i could just go the the shallow dof but i dont think it improves the image..

sorry to break the rules and not pick one.. :)

trog
 
Robert Evagelista said:
Jim Salvas said:
I picked number 2 based on contrast, but number 3 seems to be the only one with the whole bottle in focus, so it wins on that count. Number 4 seems to be the favorite for bokeh, but apparently none of the other lenses actually have wide apertures at 45mm, so that's not much of a deal. If I wanted bokeh, I'd step back and shoot this with the 75 at 1.8, but that's not an available choice.

BTW, it might be interesting to see the comparison of all of them at the same aperture, which i guess would have to be f6 (which is now the 12-50, I presume).

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Jim Salvas
"You miss 100% of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky
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Jim,
I think you nailed my next plan... will compare them in f6.0.
before i posted it here, I posted it in FB... and somebody asked for a common aperture comparison also... and I told her I would do f6 also.
Like what you said this is the common maximum aperture among my 4 lenses.
Actually I would like to see f8.0 also, just to give some allowance.
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OrdinarilyInordinate said:
I think the fact that #4 is winning the poll illustrates the very problem of people being obsessed with shallow depth of field to the point where if it starts eating at the subject, it's ignored in favor of as much blur as possible. Just like all the close-ups I've been seeing using maximum apertures of fast lenses, and a flower being only half in focus, or even less so.

Ever notice how people who get DSLRs to take photos of their gear on electronics forums often use the P mode or Auto and end up with indoor photos that have very shallow depth of field with only a small part of their subject being in focus. They might think it's artsy, but it just blurs what they are trying to show, and I find it distracting.
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The good news is the 2nd voted is picture #1 which is the stopped down version of Picture #4 the top voted. So there is still hope.
I actually put the picture #1 in the beginning to try to give it more attention. but #4 still got the most votes.

honestly if me... my quick vote will be #4.
But given time I could have voted for others. Maybe #3
 
3, followed by 1.

If you allow me to finish what's left in the bottle, my vision would be as blurred as 4 :)

So, when sober, 3. After a couple of drinks, 4.
 
#4 is the only one that doesn't have headache inducing bokeh.
 
1 wins on contrast for me. Personally the bokeh on 4 looks like green mush and has no connection to the main subject but this is clearly a minority view.

Thanks for an interesting post!
 
Martin.au said:
I like 3 because of the background. Just enough blur to show the depth, but also enough definition to show that it's a bottle in a nice environment, like a tropical island.
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I chose 3 for the same reason. I also feel that the amount of blur in #3 allows for texture that compliments the texture in the leather of the foreground. The background of #4 is so blurred that it creates this harsh transition between the leather foreground and the background that I find distracting.

Sean
 
In my mind, picture 4 doesn't have a very three dimensional feel like the other pictures. I liked the extra DOF of picture 4.

It makes me wonder though - what was being judged here by everybody ? The quality of the overall picture or the quality of the bokeh ? In all pictures it is obvious that the bottle is the subject - regardless of the level or quality of the bokeh.

Well ... that's just my opinion. Taste is something personal I guess.
 
Why was the amount of whiskey in each the same? Don't you take shots, like I do, when you change lenses?

Since you mentioned "widest opening" I suppose you were interested in bokeh (?) and I think 2 has the best.
 
Hi Robert,

- on my 1st iteration I looked mostly at the bokeh. Shot number 4 is far, far ahead of the others here. Shot number 3 has by far the worst bokeh, pretty much ruining the shot for me. Shots 1 and 2 also have pretty nervous bokeh but less ugly than number 3, and 1 less ugly than 2. Shot number 5 has a less "nervous" bokeh but it also is quite ugly in its own right.

- on my 2nd iteration I looked at the rendering of the bottle and colours (not sharpness as I don't have the tools for this). I found less differences than with bokeh except shot number 1 which I found inferior to the others.

- on my 3rd iteration I finally looked at the EXIF data. I found that I had preferred the shot from the 45mm f1.8. Not sure what the other lenses are (or same lens at smaller apertures?) as I'm no Olympus expert.

Robert Evagelista said:
Which do you prefer among this
Pictures taken with different lenses at their widest opening. Aperture priority.
ISO = fixed at 200
Tried to maintain the same field of view.
Please try to ignore the exif data. :)

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