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Friday Photography Blog No. 27 | 174 comments (174 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Friday Photography Blog No. 27 (4.00 / 3)

Profiting from margouillat's lesson two weeks ago I put my D-80 on automatic ISO and I've been very pleased with the rsults. Here's some shots of estHer's 14th birthday party with no flash.

estHer and Birthday tartes:

Raphael learning to eat with chopstick without using hands. Me in background. (Shot by estHer)

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 06:14:48 AM EST
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Re: Friday Photography Blog No. 27 (none / 0)

First one is nice. What lens it that though? Same one you're using for the moon shots?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 06:22:06 AM EST
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It was at home and I only had my walk around lens on the camera- Nikon 28-105 af.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 06:25:40 AM EST
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Flares something awful, doesn't it? Do you have a filter on the front of it?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 08:46:18 AM EST
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The only filter I have is a clear filter to protect the lens. You're going to have to give a small course on filters soon.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 11:04:49 AM EST
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Do an experiment for me: take some photos of candles set-up the same way with and without the filter. I'm guessing the flare is from the filter. Is it a cheap or expensive one?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 11:08:12 AM EST
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Cheap- 12 euros.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 12:36:39 PM EST
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Re: Friday Photography Blog No. 27 (none / 0)

That could be it then: if it doesn't have proper glass and proper coatings it's very likely to flare under even minimally challenging conditions. I was surprised to see the flare in the picture of the candles since it didn't seem all that challenging. Experiment with taking the filter off.

I'm not personally a fan of the protective lens filter: we realised a long time ago that we were putting relatively cheap bits of glass in front of our lenses for no obvious reason except to induce extra flare and increase the margins of the people selling us lenses. We've never lost either a filter or a lens.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 01:53:17 PM EST
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Maybe that's my problem in the moon shots too. I've only had these filters for two months or so and have barely used them.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 12:39:18 PM EST
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For wxample, here's a shot of the moon on December 21, without any filter. There is no reflection.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 12:46:05 PM EST
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Re: Friday Photography Blog No. 27 (4.00 / 2)

Groucho thinks: I wouldn't want to belong to any club that required me to stick chopsticks up my nostrils. Ciao mean.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Mar 21st, 2008 at 06:55:34 AM EST
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