TVR Tuscan

[jagdpanther]

Ive been playing with my new Canon 50mm prime mk2 recently, but find it a little difficult to judge for shooting vehicles...the focus distance and DOF are so different to what Im used to!! Although I am looking forward to some portrait work

I wanted to share this photo with you and see what you chaps thought



Enjoy

[joesnow]

Flippin' love those cars, nice pic, seems to blend into the surroundings.

[jagdpanther]

It does seem to match the surroundings somewhat

[Timmy2TARs]

Really like that The focal length looks spot on. Is it 50mm with a full-frame or cropped sensor?

[jagdpanther]

Timmy2TARs said:

Really like that The focal length looks spot on. Is it 50mm with a full-frame or cropped sensor?

50mm prime on a EOS10D so I think cropped censor by 1.6x?

[Qoda]

It looks as though you were on about f8.5 as the o/s front light looks pretty sharp, the front of the roof is beginning to look slightly unsharp, difficult to tell from the reflection, but judged from the wing mirror. But by the time you get to the front of the slate roof it is clearly unsharp. The light looks sort of brightish hazy/cloudy.
I am guessing you shot set on Program/Auto as you did not hint that you made a conscious choice of which F stop to use.
Get a good quality light meter, then you will know exactly what you can do and how to do it.
E.g meter gives f5.6 @ 1/125, but you want full front-to-back clarity, so you choose f16 @ 1/32
depth of field for any particular focal length/fstop combination will always be a mathematic constant. Quality of lens will have an impact, but not on the dof as the quality of the sweet spot will be comparable with the quality of wider range.
The only Canon's with full frame sensors are the 1 & 5. The 10 is definitely smaller.
Enjoy

[Andy M]

Qoda said:

It looks as though you were on about f8.5 as the o/s front light looks pretty sharp, the front of the roof is beginning to look slightly unsharp, difficult to tell from the reflection, but judged from the wing mirror. But by the time you get to the front of the slate roof it is clearly unsharp. The light looks sort of brightish hazy/cloudy.
I am guessing you shot set on Program/Auto as you did not hint that you made a conscious choice of which F stop to use.
Get a good quality light meter, then you will know exactly what you can do and how to do it.
E.g meter gives f5.6 @ 1/125, but you want full front-to-back clarity, so you choose f16 @ 1/32
depth of field for any particular focal length/fstop combination will always be a mathematic constant. Quality of lens will have an impact, but not on the dof as the quality of the sweet spot will be comparable with the quality of wider range.
The only Canon's with full frame sensors are the 1 & 5. The 10 is definitely smaller.
Enjoy

Or, shoot in aperture priority and keep an eye on your histogram - preferably exposing to the right. See: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/expose...

No need for a lightmeter, the histogram is a better judge of what the camera is capable of.

FWIW I think the shot is compositionally ok, you've done relatively well with the technical side, and the end result has lovely colours and tones

I'd possibly recommend using a slightly wider lens. If you get closer in you may get more of a '3D' effect.