50mm 1.8 first shot

[DPHS]

bought this lenses the othery day..this is a pretty random unedited shot

 

[Ron Evers]

Nice DOF control.

 

[Braineack]

not a bad first shot with it. use of DOF here was good.

 

[DPHS]

2 more still unedited

 

[Derrel]

This is what is called "selective focusing". You are using the lens's shallow depth of field when focused close to create pictures that use selective focusing. Well-done, especially on the second pair with the pretty cut glass flower arrangement! The ability to create foreground/background separation at close distances like this is one of the things many p;eople really like about the 50mm prime lenses...it allows them to show a close-up subject against an out of focus background.

THe challenge is to learn how to do this with different types of subjects. Imagine a fisherman, shown at the side of his boat in port, placed off to the side of the frame, with the other remaining parts of the frame showing other fishing boats in the background, well-defocused...that's one way to use the 50mm lens for "environmental portraiture".

 

[DPHS]

thanks i will try it in my city as soon as the weather gets better (so much rain)

 

[KmH]

Which Canon 50 mm f/1.8?

The inexpensive (Canons least expensive lens) EF 50 mm f/1.8 II has embarrassing low build quality for a lens from a major camera maker.
Image sharpness is only decent when the lens is wide open at f/1.8. The 2 photos in post #4 seem to show that, less than sharp when used wide open.
The wide open drop in sharpness is common to most inexpensive 'fast' lenses, regardless what company made them.

But stopped down to f/2.8 or smaller the sharpness is quite good. So when you want as sharp a subject as the lens can deliver don't set the lens aperture to wider than f/1.8.

Unfortunately the low build quality means the lens only has 5, straight, and sharp edged aperture blades so the lens delivers some of the worst looking bokeh of any camera maker lens.

The low build quality of the EF 50 mm f/1.8 II is also why so many of them break into 2 large non-repairable pieces when the lens is dropped.
But, being as inexpensive as the lens is, it doesn't hurt to much if you need to replace one you dropped.

 

[Ron Evers]

thanks i will try it in my city as soon as the weather gets better (so much rain)

Lucky you.

I will trade you some snow for rain.

 

[AlanKlein]

It's important to understand what you are trying to do with your shot. What is it? What do you like and not like in your shots?

 

[DPHS]

i'm loving this already cant wait to try some sport shots