The Official Photography Thread - Vol. 3

Just picked up a 50mm f/1.8 lens.

18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 i have a hood lens and a UV Filter.

My question is, should i grab the same accessories for my 50mm lens or should i leave it the way it is?

thoughts?
 
For anyone who was hesitant on picking up the D600, Nikon officially announced the D610. I'm assuming it fixed the oil spot issue with other minor improvements.


Edit: Then again, I'd expect an influx of D600 on ebay and craigslist for cheap.
 
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Just picked up a 50mm f/1.8 lens.

18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 i have a hood lens and a UV Filter.

My question is, should i grab the same accessories for my 50mm lens or should i leave it the way it is?

thoughts?

I went the route of step down rings adapter. Basically the 50mm has bigger thread than the kit lens, so you would get a ring that would fit inside the smaller lens' thread but fit the filters from the bigger lens. I did that with my neutral density filter. UV filters are cheap enough to just buy one for each lens if you want to use them. But polarizers I would probably buy a big one and use an adapter.
 
I am like this close (insert finger photo) of getting a 135mm 2.0L for $600 on CL. It's in fair condition but for the price, that is a steal. Trying to meet up with this guy but he's been ghost for like a day, which makes me think he's going to dip out on me. Man! I hope he reconsiders.
 
i wanted to buy a decent camera that I can be proud of and will last me a long time, and possibly upgradeable lense wise. I was looking at the nikon d3100. Is that a decent starting point, or am i good just getting a compact in the $300 range?
 
Still trying to get used to this 50mm lens and trying to play around with the settings and trying to find a sweet spot.

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Because I need to keep up the tradition of my only contributions to this thread being other people's cool photos:
[h3]Milky Pin-Ups Are Traditional-40's Pinup Photos Made With High-Speed Milk [NSFW][/h3]
London based photographer Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz is known for taking high speed photography to the extreme. (And for poking at a $12K Profoto setup with a $500 Einstein).
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Jaroslav's latest endeavor involves nostalgia, naked girls and some incredibly well executed high speed photographs of milk.

The project aims at creating a pin up calendar inspired by the popular pinup calendars of the 40's and 50's. Only instead of clothing, the models are wearing milk. Milk frozen with high speed strobes.

As an inspiration, Jaroslav looks at illustrations done for pinup calendars by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Greg Hildebrandt and more which were featured on Brown & Bigelow calendars.
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While none of the milk is illustrated, it is created from layering splashes from hundreds of individual photographs. Each taken with (real) milk splashed across (real) bodies.
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The lighting setup is made with an Einstein E640 bounced of a silver parabolic umbrella for key and another E640 shooting through a strip-light for kick.
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Here is a look at 9 out of the 12 months, with 3 yet to be published photographs.
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If you are in Lucerne, Switzerland this weekend you can join in on taking the last photo in a workshop. Or you can order the calendar starting November.

[Milky Pin-Ups | Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz]
 
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