{"id":229,"date":"2011-05-04T20:49:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T19:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/?p=229"},"modified":"2012-07-17T20:46:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T19:46:52","slug":"50mm-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"50mm Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always had a love-hate relationship with my Canon 50mm f\/1.4 USM. On the one hand it is razor sharp in the right conditions with buttery bokeh and a large maximum aperture. On the other hand, as one of Canon&#8217;s older lenses in the lineup, the build quality isn&#8217;t fantastic, they are prone to mechanical failures and\u00a0I&#8217;ve found the\u00a0auto-focus (the older micro usm motor)\u00a0 inconsistent, even when selecting an AF point. I have often found myself swapping to the EF-S 60mm macro as I found it more comfortable on the lens, with quicker, better autofocus,\u00a0very sharp stopped down and with superior build quality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/photography\/gallery2\/minislideshow.swf\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"showcontrols\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"xmlUrl=http:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/photography\/gallery2\/mediaRss.php?mode=dynamic%26g2_view=keyalbum.KeywordAlbum%26g2_keyword=50pick&amp;shuffle=true&amp;titleColor=333333&amp;titleBgColor=333333&amp;pluginspage=\" \/><param name=\"http:\" value=\"\" \/><param name=\"www\" value=\"\" \/><param name=\"macromedia\" value=\"\" \/><param name=\"com\" value=\"\" \/><param name=\"go\" value=\"\" \/><param name=\"getflashplayer\" value=\"\" \/><embed width=\"400\" height=\"300\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/photography\/gallery2\/minislideshow.swf\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" showcontrols=\"true\" quality=\"high\" flashvars=\"xmlUrl=http:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/photography\/gallery2\/mediaRss.php?mode=dynamic%26g2_view=keyalbum.KeywordAlbum%26g2_keyword=50pick&amp;shuffle=true&amp;titleColor=333333&amp;titleBgColor=333333&amp;pluginspage=\" http:=\"\" www=\"\" macromedia=\"\" com=\"\" go=\"\" getflashplayer=\"\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>After some conversations with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stephaniebelton.com\/\">Stephanie Belton<\/a> she inspired me to persevere with the 50mm, ditching the flash I often used with it and upping the ISO to compensate. In the past I&#8217;ve been reluctant to push the ISO too high, mainly through experiences of using 400\/800 film and higher sensitivies on my old 350D which often made the images unusable, but actually they are very usable on modern D-SLR&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>So over the easter break I tried to keep the 50mm on as much as possible, for general walk around use and when inside. I also took out the batteries from my Speedlite to remove the temptation to use it!<\/p>\n<p>You can see some of my favourites above, taken throughout the week and you can see the rest in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/photography\/gallery2\/main.php?g2_itemId=677&amp;g2_page=3\">gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next mini project &#8211; 50mm x 50mm Portraits shot at 50mm?!<\/p>\n<p>[fb-share]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always had a love-hate relationship with my Canon 50mm f\/1.4 USM. On the one hand it is razor sharp in the right conditions with buttery bokeh and a large maximum aperture. On the other hand, as one of Canon&#8217;s older lenses in the lineup, the build quality isn&#8217;t &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danmorgan.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}