Got my new 50mm over the weekend...

[1953hogan]

Wow. Beautiful stuff. As a fellow Lightroom user and Nikon shooter I'd love to know what body you are shooting. I use a D3 myself. Have never had a lens with larger than 2.8 aperture and am interested. You're doing a nice job with it.

Best

Steve

 

[Bunky]

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That's really the first time I have really heard of the word bokeh. How did THAT come about? It really means circular shapes on distant lights out of focus???

It is the term used to describe how a lens renders out of focus items. It is determined by your aperture design. Poor bokeh means circles looks irregular (not smooth).

 

[umi000]

Thanks bobby... yeah that shot is one of my favorites. I hate to think I could have gone with a 1.4 instead of a 1.8. It would have been double the price tho

I'm of the opinion that every photographer should have at least one nice fast prime - I'm glad that I bought my Pentax FA 50/1.4 before their price increase a couple of years back. It's a fantastic lens with great image quality, and - most of the time - lovely-smooth buttery bokeh.

That's really the first time I have really heard of the word bokeh. How did THAT come about? It really means circular shapes on distant lights out of focus???

Basically refers to the quality of the out-of-focus areas - including the lights, but also the transition between colors and areas in the out-of-focus portion of the image.

Yeah I need to start doing that

It helps if you set-up a workflow that automates the image input, conversion (if any) and application of basic settings - I have a workflow around ImageIngester to pull in images from the SD card, convert from PEF to DNG, apply metadata, and save in my folder structure - I then import to Lightroom to apply my initial standard develop settings. (I had this set-up back when Lightroom's import ability wasn't nearly as functional as it is today - I could probably do everything in Lightroom if I were setting things up now.)