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Re: Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Macro Lens Review for Nikon

Charles Jones103 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:24:45 -0000

Thanks for the help, I actually got it working, I just wasn't moving the right part basically. It works great too! Here is my latest shot, improving I think...slowly but surely.

[IMG]http://i958.photobucket.com/al...[/IMG]

Re: Tokina 11-16mm Review and Why You Need to Buy One

Tim Kainu — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:03:56 -0000

Hi Keith,
I can't say for sure that this lens will be just as good on Canon, because I've nver used it on a Canon, but judging by the reviews on B&H Photo and other reviews I've seen on the web, I'd say the Canon mount is just as good.

As far as using this lens on a full-frame camera, it is not a good idea because you'll get some bad vignetting in the corners. Think of it as a cookie cutter :) you'll be clipping the corners of the photo. They'll appear all black and curved, essentially making the photo like a circle. In-fact, here's this lens used on a Canon 5DII: http://farm5.static.flickr.com...

Re: Reflections Photo Contest Winners

Tim Kainu — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:30:19 -0000

And a huge thank you to you, as well, Annette! We appreciate you for participating in our contest. Hope to see more in the future!

Re: Reflections Photo Contest Winners

Tim Kainu — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:29:14 -0000

Thank you, Laurent! I'll be keeping an eye on your sites for some more great pictures.

Re: Reflections Photo Contest Winners

Annette Holl — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:21:37 -0000

A huge thankyou Tim and Printlab and congratulations to Laurent and Michael !

Re: Tokina 11-16mm Review and Why You Need to Buy One

Keith — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:08:40 -0000

Hey Tim,

I know that this review is for the Nikon mount but do you know if it would pretty much hold true during the cross over to the Canon mount?

Also when using a lens set up for a full frame sensor on a camera with a crop sensor it has a crop factor and a 50mm lens would become roughly 80mm... What happens if the inverse were true, using a lens like the one that this review is about on a full frame sensor?

Re: Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Macro Lens Review for Nikon

Tom Sekula — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:59:06 -0000

Hi, this might sound silly, but really give the lens a tight screw onto the body. I have a Tokina 11-16 (even my Nikkor 35 2.8 does this) and when I sometimes put them on my D7000 autofocus does not work, yet I can take pictures with manual focus. I finally realized that although the lens is attached, it's not fully "screwed on" to the body. The extra 2mm give causes the CPU to make a connection and autofocus magically starts working again. Good luck!

Re: Reflections Photo Contest Winners

Laurent Lellu — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:15:56 -0000

A big thanks to Tim, Printlab and B&H. This picture was taken in the Salar d'Uyuni, in Bolivia during a big trip around the world (look here for more pictures
http://tourdumonde.lellu.com/2.... I will post other pictures in the next few days on http://images.lellu.com. Thanks !!

Re: Costco Photo Center Review: Awesome Prints at a Great Price

Smiller 1981 — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:59:53 -0000

I just picked up my pictures of my daughter's wedding and loved them. Costco does an excellent job and the cost is so low compared to the one the photographer recommended. MPIX was more than double Costco's cost and the quality not as good. (I did order some pics for comparison) I will never use any other. I've tried Snapfish as well, and not impressed at all.

Re: Recommended Cameras of 2011 - A Holiday Buying Guide

Tim Kainu — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:50:35 -0000

Hello,

I think it depends. I would say it's generally a bad idea to start a photography business if you lack experience shooting portraits. But if you're really good at shooting portraits, have a good understanding of the photography business, and have a ton of passion for what you do, then it might work out well :)

Re: Photography Basics: Natural Light Photography

Arunvijay297 — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:38:04 -0000

Lovingly

Re: Recommended Cameras of 2011 - A Holiday Buying Guide

Creationsbyloris — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:32:24 -0000

Hi, I think the article has great information..Thank you! I do have a question, I am a beginner and I have a Nikon D5000..Is it any good to start a portrait photo business? Thank you for your reponse :))

Re: Out Of This World | More Images From The Badlands

Florian Hossfeld — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:07:16 -0000

great shots !

Re: How To Create Fog in Photoshop: Gloomy Photoshop Action Included

Phydoux — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:11:57 -0000

Couldn't get the New Layer thing to work (Step 5-12). Instead I just selected the brush, made the brush white, set the opacity between 20 & 10 and had at it. Worked fine.

Re: Top 14 Composition Techniques To Enhance Your Photos

Rpellegrino — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:55:28 -0000

I am a photography teacher for high school, and appreciate you showing unique photos with your composition list. A new way to look at the basics. Thank you for sharing.

Re: Top 14 Composition Techniques To Enhance Your Photos

Fwbrombergjr — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:51:48 -0000

Smantha, I tend to agree with you; however, you have to defer to the wishes of the client, and the objective of the portrait. As in most cases, "it depends."

Re: Tokina 11-16mm Review and Why You Need to Buy One

Tim Kainu — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:32:31 -0000

Hi Lou,

I haven't heard of, or experienced, the problem that you're describing unfortunately. I don't use 16mm all that much on the lens. I have heard the D7000 can overexpose at times, or so people say, but I haven't had any issues so far. If I had my D7000 right now I'd test it myself, but unfortunately it's out getting repaired.

I couldn't tell ya' why it's doing that. Perhaps it's a bad copy, and something could be wrong with the lens internally, causing it over-expose? It's a possibility.

Also, the Nikon 10-24mm is a great lens. If you can swing it, I'd buy it instantly :)

Re: Tokina 11-16mm Review and Why You Need to Buy One

Lou — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:29:34 -0000

Hi Tim,

I just bought this lens too for my D7000 and I love it too... except that I find it overexposes my pictures when used at 16mm (all is ok from 11mm to 15mm), specially from f:5.6 to f:8. This is somewhat strange and I have to keep that in mind, more so since the D7000 is somewhat prone to blown highlights as well. My other lenses are the 16-85VR, the 50mm 1.8D and the 70-300VR, all of which do not duplicate the strange behaviour from the Tokina lens. Have you experienced this as well.

Because of this weirdness, I am tempted to return this lens and get the Nikon 10-24 instead. Any thoughts on this strange phenomenum ?

Re: Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Macro Lens Review for Nikon

Tim Kainu — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:00:48 -0000

Getting a larger area of the image in-focus is combination of things. One is using a small aperture (sometimes as small as f22), the distance you are from your subject, and like you said, the distance/length of the actual subject. I don't have enough space in this comment box to explain it all, so here's an amazing link: http://www.cambridgeincolour.c...

As for great forums to join, I would recommend http://digital-photography-sch... for a good start. If you want more insight from advanced photographers, http://1x.com/forum is great. I hung out there for a while before starting my own blog.

And thanks for subscribing to my FB page! Hope you find what I post interesting :)

Re: Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Macro Lens Review for Nikon

Charles Jones103 — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:42:13 -0000

I'm just having a difficult time getting a larger area of the image in focus. I always seem to get part of the image focused, but not a larger area. It could just be that my expectations are simply to high. It could be that the subjects i'm shooting are too varied in their distance from the lens. I'm not entirely sure and I suppose it is something that just requires more experience.

For the water, I mostly just wanted to try and get a clear picture of a water drop. I don't have an off camera flash yet, and given the initial cost of my setup, it could be a while. But, there is still plenty I can do without one for now ;)

Thanks again for you help and suggestions! Subscribed to your fb page as well :) Can you suggest any good message boards where I can also find tips and suggestions?

Re: Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Macro Lens Review for Nikon

Tim Kainu — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:17:21 -0000

Hey Charles,

Pretty good considering there's no editing! My photos always have a ton of editing.
What is it you're having difficulties with on the lens? Also if you're trying to achieve the same effect as I did for the water drop shot, you will need to use an off-camera flash such as the Nikon SB-700 or similar. It's what I used for mine :)

Keep on shooting and you'll learn all the tricks. It's the best way to get better :) and I see you are!

Re: Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Macro Lens Review for Nikon

Charles Jones103 — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:03:54 -0000

I've played around with this lens a little more, getting good results, not great, but good. I'm still an amateur playing with his first DSLR so i'm pretty happy with the results so far. Two more macro pics, one an idea I stole from you and the other is a crab in my aquarium. No editing on either of them, that is my next project to tackle.

http://i958.photobucket.com/al...

http://i958.photobucket.com/al...

Re: Top 14 Composition Techniques To Enhance Your Photos

Tim Kainu — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:19:52 -0000

Thanks for pointing out the typo :) should be fixed now!

I agree, it might be easier to create a good portrait that is slightly off-center, but some of the most memorable portraits I've seen have been centered. Yes, they are more difficult at times, but I've seen some that are awesome. So your point well taken :)

Thanks for the comment and insights!

Re: Top 14 Composition Techniques To Enhance Your Photos

Samantha Genier — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:44:19 -0000

First, just something that caught my eye. It's a spacebar-oops in the framing paragraph: " when framed int he center" ;)

Second, I personally find portraiture to look more interesting if you try to get one of the eyes into a crashpoint, only because poses usually aren't done in a head-on fashion so centering them doesn't necessarily look good. I think it's actually a lot more difficult to get a pleasing composition with a centered person, then it is to slightly off-center them. Perhaps it's just me though. C:

I was so happy reading tip one though. I've argued that point with so many new photographers just starting to learn who feel that they don't need rules and refuse to try to learn them.

Re: Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Macro Lens Review for Nikon

Tim Kainu — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:17:46 -0000

I really like those! The colors are great! and it's an interesting subject as well. I'd love to see more from your aquarium. Also, I see two photos, one of them looks cropped :)

I can't see any signs of scratches on the glass or anything, so good job keeping those out of the view.

One suggestion is to focus on the tip of the claim. The front of it is a little out of focus, and if you brought it into focus, it would be awesome. Hope that makes sense :)

Also, I think I accidentally deleted your first comment where you said manual focus was fun.. whoops :( sorry.

Yes, manual focus is fun! I hope you were able to get some good results with it. I find that I do, especially with live view because I can zoom in on the screen and really tweak out the focus, and choose the exact point I want to be tack sharp.

Thanks again for sharing those pictures. I enjoyed them.