flowers in vase...

[Peter McCullough]

Hi all,

My very first photo posted here.

I've recently bought a couple of Samyang manual focus lenses for my Canon 5D Mk1 body, a 16mm f/2.8 and a 35mm f/1.4, beautiful build/lens quality for little money! This was shot with the Samyang 35mm f/1.4

Here's a shot taken tonight of a mixture of flowers in a vase in our hall, tripod/mirror lock up/cable release/hi-res jpeg/50 iso and shot at f/1.4

I love the paper thin depth of field with this excellent manual f/1.4 glass - wow.

 

[Davie Hudson]

brilliant shot

 

[Hamish Gill]

Ooo ...
I missed this... A bit behind on my post reading from sorting all that database nonsense!

Lovely that int it!

Purely technically speaking that oof rendering is very smooth!

Non technically speaking, lovely shot, very colourful!

How do you find the manual focusing?

 

[Peter McCullough]

Thanks for your comments.

I've literally only used the Samyang 35mm f/1.4 twice in the past two days, have only used it inside as the present weather here is dull and raining lots. So I hope to get out within next few days to try shoot with it, I also have the 14mm Samyang wide angle, so can't wait to use that on buildings etc, I need to buy a few 'welding glass' dark filters (strengths 8/10/12) to enhance sky effect for cheap as chips price etc.

Once I get the hang of manual focusing I'm hoping to get good results all being well, watch this space....

 

[Paul Lange]

Great that one is! The way it fades out to an abstract background makes it quite intriguing to look at.

 

[Tim Pindar]

Lens looks good.

It looks like the tip of the nearmost leaf is the point of focus at the moment. I'd like to see the shot with the centre of the flower in focus?

 

[Peter McCullough]

Yip think your right about having the centre of flower bud in focus, I'll re-shoot it tomorrow and see how that works out etc...

Thanks

 

[Pete Askew]

Very nice and, like the others, I love the shallow focus and general softness. And also the way the background colours match the main subject.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Oooo, I love a good narrow DOF myself - lovely shot

Lenses looking very promising then.

 

[Peter McCullough]

Ok I shot this again tonight, still using f/1.4, but tried to focus more on the actual bud, it's hard with such shallow focus;

Loving the Samyang 35mm f/1.4, bonkers quality for really little money!

 

[Pete Askew]

I liked the original but I like this even more. Not only for the focus point but also because the lighting. Very, very nice.

 

[Tim Pindar]

Yep, very nice improvement, for me.

 

[Peter McCullough]

Thanks for the comments, appreciated!

I don't own a flashgun, just used the standard house lights in our hall. Oh yea, pointed a basic torch light during the exposure, simple.

 

[Brian Moore]

I looked up Samyang and what showed up was Rokinon lenses. Same company?

 

[Peter McCullough]

Yes same lens, they come under a couple of different names ok. Here's a place in the UK that sell/stock them;

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