This continues with the bokeh testing of the previous post. The candidate lenses are: Nikon 60mm f/2.8 AF Micro-Nikkor Nikon 58mm f/1.4 AFS-Nikkor G Coastal Optical 60mm f/4 UV-Vis-IR Apo Macro Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG Art Zeiss 55mm f/1.4 Otus In this post, the three lenses that have f/2 as an available aperture are tested… [Read More]
Archives for March 18, 2015
Bokeh with 3 Normal lenses at f/1.4 on a D810
A few days ago, I reported on the performance of a number of normal lenses on the Nikon D810 with a distant landscape as the target. Today, I’d like to look at the performance of the lenses for out-of-focus parts of the image. The lenses are: Nikon 60mm f/2.8 AF Micro-Nikkor Nikon 58mm f/1.4 AFS-Nikkor… [Read More]
Democratic photography
A few days ago, I posted a picture I was having trouble with: Then I messed around with the channel mixer and got something I liked better: Eric Hanson posted a comment here saying that he liked the first image better. Intrigued, I posted both images on Facebook yesterday, asking which one people preferred. Some… [Read More]
Craft versus content
A few days I wrote this post about what’s important in photography. It may seem surprising coming from someone who blogs about craft in photography – and techy craft at that – but I was making that point that craft is not the most important thing in photography; it’s not even close. My frame of… [Read More]