Showing posts with label lights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lights. Show all posts

Wednesday, 29 December 2010

361: The Luminous Tree

Settings: f/1.4, 1/1.7, ISO 100, P-FA 50mm.

360: White Evening View

Settings: f/4, 1/6, ISO 400, DA 16-45 (30mm.) White balance and tone curve adjustments.

356: Fairy-O-Lights

Settings: f/1.8, 1/5, ISO 800, 50mm Pentacon M42, 17mm extension.

Monday, 29 November 2010

331: Winter Street Lights

A quick snap taken from the middle of King Richards Road. Snowy and very cold.
The only significant hint of snowfall shown here is the lower right patch. The snow cover generally cast a lot of ambient reflections around the street, and the scene would have had much less shadow detail without it.

Settings: f/1.4, 1/50, ISO 400, P-FA 50mm. Colour and levels adjustments, crop to 16:9.

Thursday, 14 October 2010

285: Gallowtree Gate Greens


Settings: f/1.4, 1/80, ISO 400, P-FA 50mm.

Friday, 8 October 2010

280: Tail Light Clusters


Settings: f/2.5, 1/30, ISO 400, Tamron 24mm Adaptall.

Tuesday, 28 September 2010

269: Roundabout

Another blob shot. Previously a 58mm f/2, this time it's the turn of 50mm f/1.4. Very big discs, almost too large; would probably look better on a full-frame 135 sensor, although there would be more peripheral distortions.
Noticing the small hair-like dust mark on the right of centre makes me wonder how there is a slight double image - I had no filter attached to the lens. Strangely, the marks shift in different images, so I presume it's something on the front lens element.

Settings: f/1.4, 1/10, ISO 200, P-FA 50mm.

Friday, 24 September 2010

265: Night Street Discs

Nice images can be taken with a fast lens wide open and focused to the minimum distance.
The old EOS D30 definitely has some dynamic range issues: Highlights blow quite easily, even in RAW. I had to convert the CRW files to DNG using the Adobe DNG converter, otherwise RT wouldn't read the colour settings correctly (totally skewing the white balance, and giving a purplish tint to blown highlights which is near impossible to recover in post-processing.)

Settings: f/2, 1/20, ISO 400, EOS D30, 58mm Helios-44M M42. DNG RAW.