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Vivid setting is vivid. Not sure about skin tones #AccidentalUKIP

Not sure if best to post in digital photography, in food, or in vegan thread..

Aquired 35mm Nikkor - feels like "home"!
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Also baked Isa Chandra's marbled banana bread, which is one of bestest treats you can stuff yourself with.

Everything about this post is win. I shot a friends 70th the other day, forcing myself to just shoot on my 35mm prime. Felt good.

Damn I want some of that cake.

my 35mm prime

You're Nikon too, right - which 35 are you using?
Deliberating about which of the 3 AF choices to get I just went for the old AF-D 2.0 - very happy so far.

Damn I want some of that cake.

Recipe is here if you like - http://www.theppk.com/2011/11/marbled-banana-bread/
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tina, i recently bought the f2, very happy with it so far, i haven't tried the others but I personally prefer the size and weight of the f2.

My favourite lens is my nikon 35mm 1.8g, it's perfect for all my camera bodies as they all have a cropped sensor AND it's super cheap for the quality of lens that it is.

You can get one for about £120 brand new I think, vs double that for the 1.4

It's also rear focusing so once it's on the camera its pretty much sealed from dust and dirt, so it was great when I was travelling around and didn't want to faff with multiple lens and adverse conditions

So I have been taking photos for a few years, and could never really be bothered with shooting RAW. Whilst the amount of control you can have over the final image seemed great, the sheer amount of time it would then take to prepare all your images seemed daunting. I already hated the time it took to do a few crops and rotations.

Anyway, I finally succumbed, and obviously the temptation to claw back the shadows and push the clarity was hard to resist. Shot some photos late on at a friends wedding, and my question is did I overdo the processing? I have lost all objectivity after spending so long editing them...

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From a complete amateur- no.

..assuming you're talking about the AF version.

I tried the new (1.8) version as well (think I alread mentioned upthread) - IQ is super good, but it's almost twice as big, heavy, and expensive, also I didn't like the design / cheapish look.

My favourite lens is my nikon 35mm 1.8g, it's perfect for all my camera bodies as they all have a cropped sensor AND it's super cheap for the quality of lens that it is.

Yea, that's the DX one right? This is really super good, and cheap.
Not for me though as i need FX coverage..

Yup, f2 D version, good optics, solid, tiny, does the job. Cheap as chips too, so win.

Cheers for the recipe.

I'd drop the shadows back, too distracting currently from the subject matter imho. Otherwise cool.

35mm is definitely the focal length for most things.

Pretty much everything I do now is with that or the crop equivalent.

@gav yeah, I'd pull the background a bit. Contrast/saturation/wb looks good tho.

Damn that leica goodness!

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Good stuff, like that last one especially.

yea

I've used my dslr like once since the first week of the year, I probably would've been better off spending the money on a scanner and more film

The exception being fashion. I nearly got an X100 for that street style job, but 35mm wouldn't cut it, too much distortion, and you lose that depth of field when doing a full length. So I got a compact with zoom. But otherwise 35 ftw. Allows you to get pissed up and still get results.

Never going to win awards mind, but does the job. And having a lens not to "pro" looking, so when down the pub people aren't freaked out.

Top Tip: 1600ISO, wide aperature, fastest shutter you can handle, then into lightroom, black & white, add medium grain, adjust levels and contrast as necessary will get you a great result with no hassle when in a difficult environment. The light in that venue was shite, as well has having some weird light temperature.

As an added bonus the guy on the left in the bottom picture (whose 70th it was), used to be a Camera Operator back in the days when Fleet St was Fleet St, so he liked the B&W treatment. Plate camera, flash bulbs and five photos per job anyone?

Looking at it on a bigger screen (rather than my phone last night), the photo seems to be over sharpened. If you can be bothered I'd be tempted to do a little light cosmetic retouching on your subject's neck and skin. Bangin' shot though.

35mm is definitely the focal length for most things

Yea, guess there's a reason the majority of cameras for the masses have lenses with that focal length..
I said I felt "at home" after finally getting a 35mm prime for my DSLR again (as I shot so much of that perspective the last year, and it's more "as I see the world" as 50mm is (I guess 40 would be even better, but hey).
So this will be my "walkaround lens", and I can see myself taking a lot of pictures with it.

This being said, after many years of taking pictures I just now get a grip on how images have different character depending on focal length, even if the frame is the same.

I guess what I'm saying is that while 35mm is very useful for a lot of things it may be good shot discipline to not get lazy / realize when it's making more sense to walk back a few meters, change lenses, and shoot the same frame with a 85 for example.

New two-part article by Ming Thein, well worth a read: Photographic Detox