I love my 50mm 1.8

voodoocat · Jul 5, 2004

I finally got my first fixed lens for the d70. went and purchased the 50mm 1.8 lens. I decided to be a photojournalist for the 4th of july bbq and did everything handheld with no flash indoors. I used a custom white balance using a grey card. I'm really pleased with the skintones on this one.
Let me have it.

mrsid99 · Jul 5, 2004

Maybe it's my monitor but the whole pic has a brownish tint and the skintones look that way too but it's a neat study of the child.

voodoocat · Jul 5, 2004

mrsid99 said:
Maybe it's my monitor but the whole pic has a brownish tint and the skintones look that way too but it's a neat study of the child.

The back wall does appear to have brownish tint but that is because it is further from the windows and underexposed compared to the childs skin. I've been debating what to do about the background... i don't really like the brown that much either.

mrsid99 · Jul 5, 2004

Please excuse me for playing with your pic but does this seem any better?

voodoocat · Jul 5, 2004

Definately better than the first except for the blown out highlights on the pink shirt. but it was late and i did no processing besides levels. I'm still not grand on the color of the background. I can take it out by taking down the saturation on the yellow. but it takes away the gold in the hair.

mrsid99 · Jul 5, 2004

So get to work with Photoshopping it and let's see the result!

canonrebel · Jul 5, 2004

mrsid99 said:
Please excuse me for playing with your pic but does this seem any better?

It looks better on my monitor for sure. How did you achieve this?

mrsid99 · Jul 5, 2004

canonrebel said:
It looks better on my monitor for sure. How did you achieve this?

Didn't change anything that much since I was trying to preserve the original as much as possible.
Just a little more brightness, contrast and saturation plus a little fiddling with the color balance.

LAB · Jul 6, 2004

Love those eyes

voodoocat · Jul 6, 2004

Well I can get it ok.. looks a lot like what mrsid did w/o the blown out highlights. but I'm still not that excited about it. So I took the easy way out

ShutterBug4_4 · Jul 6, 2004

Very nice

malachite · Jul 6, 2004

but I'm still not that excited about it

I'll bet mom thinks differently.

mrsid99 · Jul 6, 2004

That cute kid has to be in color!
I've throttled back a little on the brightness to to stop you fretting about the highlights so try this:

Luminosity · Jul 6, 2004

I liked the lightened color version but I ADORE the black & white !
What I love most is that you've kept the blue of her eyes in the b&w version.Its subtle and looks beautiful.