Photography Shoutbox

[Fundillo]

1 LumoPro 8' Black A/C Stand $29.99
1 LumoPro LP632 Umbrella Swivel w/ Hot Shoe Adapter $16.99
1 Westcott 43" Collapsible Umbrella White Satin $19.70
1 Strobist Pro Rosco Color Correction Gel Pack $15.95
Finally getting into strobing = Priceless

 

[nexTOme]

Light up your subject with something. Its the only way to do it. Once you get it focused, you can turn the light off, but to get it focused, you have to have contrast.

thanks will

 

[xluben]

What do crop users actually shoot with their nifty fifty's? I find mine too long to be useful as a walkaround. It's fun to play with, but not really "useful" to me at all. That and it feels like it could break at any second

 

[Nismode]

1 LumoPro 8' Black A/C Stand $29.99
1 LumoPro LP632 Umbrella Swivel w/ Hot Shoe Adapter $16.99
1 Westcott 43" Collapsible Umbrella White Satin $19.70
1 Strobist Pro Rosco Color Correction Gel Pack $15.95
Finally getting into strobing = Priceless

You're farther along than me...I still have no modifiers. I just have a gorilla pod and my flash haha.

 

[Nismode]

What do crop users actually shoot with their nifty fifty's? I find mine too long to be useful as a walkaround. It's fun to play with, but not really "useful" to me at all. That and it feels like it could break at any second

I shoot stuff that I know will be in dark areas, and also in places where I know I will have a lot of space to move around because it is rather long. But sharp.

 

[Nismode]

photography noob rant/question:

how the eff do you focus at night when you cant see jack through view finder?
AF can shoot flash rapidly and focus itself, but what if i want to use MF + no flash?

only time i wish i had P&S with live view. haha

P&S with live view won't do ****...it shines an amber/red light onto the subject to help it focus. DSLR's use the strobing on camera flash for AF. For MF you can strobe it yourself.

If you have a speedlite attached, AF uses the red AF cross pattern beam to help focus. Idk what it does in MF. But when I was using it off camera with a Cactus trigger, I had to manually strobe the flash by pressing the pilot button a few times while holding the shutter button halfway down using AF.

 

[hiddengamer7]

What do crop users actually shoot with their nifty fifty's? I find mine too long to be useful as a walkaround. It's fun to play with, but not really "useful" to me at all. That and it feels like it could break at any second

I loved using my nifty fifty, but it was way to long for a walk around on my crop. My favorite walk around for crop was the Sigma 30mm, it was so perfect. Now I am looking to get a 50 1.4 for the 5D.

 

[inspired1]

50 1.4 is way better than the 1.8. My 28mm 1.8 was a disappointment. I really should check to see iif it's just a calibration error.

 

[hiddengamer7]

Yea, that is disappointing, because one of my friend's has one and she always gets great shots with it, even a like F/2

 

[Fundillo]

i sold my 18-55 so my 50 was on my camera pretty much 24/7