Today I've been practicing with a Canon 50 mm 1.8 II lens or 'nifty fifty'. It was a present from my son and it's pretty impressive.
When you look through the viewfinder of the camera and then open your other eye. You can see that the image that the lens captures is almost identical to what you can see with the naked eye.
The detail is amazing and looks just like a macro lens when you zoom into the image.
Orchid cropped in close.
You can have some fun with this and get some tight shots of everyday things that suddenly look completely different up close. Like this below. What do you think it is?
Did you guess correctly? It's cracked black pepper.
Can you guess what this is below?
Did you get that it was chili oil? :)
The apples are almost ready for picking and you can see how the 50 mm gives that nice blurred effect to the background. This is called a bokeh effect. All of the above photos were taken and posted as they came out of the camera with no post production editing except from the orchid which was just cropped.
There are some other interesting aspects of this 50 mm lens which I would like to share with you but it will be quicker to make a video to explain these other features to show you what you can do with it.
This lens is good for landscapes and portraits as well as many other use cases which I will be exploring over the coming weeks. Hope you like the results so far.
My entry for #macrophotography by sponsored
My camera gear
EOS Canon 70D
Canon 50 mm 1.8 II lens
Sigma 30 mm lens
Sigma 20 mm lens
Pixel Shutter Cable Release
Travel tripod
| Category | (Macro photography)
| Camera | (Canon EOS 70D)
| Exposure | (1/400)
| f Stop | (4.6)
| ISO | (160)
| Lens | (Canon 50 mm lens)
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