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New 17mm f/4 Tiltshift HDR Photos

mark — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 10:33:06 +0000

On friday night I had a chance to spend some more time getting used to my TSE 17mm f/4 Tilt shift lens. It’s taking some time to get used to the advanced perspective correction this lens offers, but i’m still amazed @ it’s sharpness.

50D or 5Dmk1 – Fullframe vs Crop advice

mark — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 08:52:36 +0000

Dear Pixelwhip,

Seeing as you seem very knowledgeable in photography I was wondering in i could ask you a question.
I’ve always been meaning to upgrade from my 1100D and have been looking on Gumtree and the Trading Post for good second hand body.
Right now the most I am willing to spend is 750 and am wondering which camera body is better, the 50D or 5D Mk 1?
I’m planning on doing mostly portraits and casual shooting in the city with my friends and am really attracted to full frame so what is better for what I want if you know?

I travelled thru europe with a 30D & I had the chance to stay with a pro italian photographer. He lent me one of his FF nikon cameras for a shoot & I remember first looking thru the viewfinder, thinking WTF, this is so wide & clear, true it had a nice lens on it, but it was then that i realised i needed to shoot FF.

So I got a 5dii, which i’ve owned for about 2.5 yrs before my recent upgrade to 5diii; which is great it’s like the 5dii but with all the issues ironed out.

I’ve shot 5di before, & it still has that FF feel, sure the ISO noise may not be as good, it’s still decent; best thing about FF is increased sensor size = more light hitting the sensor; so peformance is still greatly improved over crop for low light anyways.. & the AF isn’t the best on 5dI, but u can also work around that.. I still shoot alot in manual under low light, or use speedlight AF assist w/o flash firing.

so yeh, as long as you don’t want to shoot fast action, sports etc, then get the FF.. Also for landscape work, it’s brilliant.. AF/ISO noise really doesn’t matter if you are setup on a tripod & using filters etc..

I hope this helps, let me know how you go.

Mark

5dii & TSE 17 f/4 . new gear, first shot

mark — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 10:05:09 +0000

this is my first photo with my new gear that just arrived. this is a HDR panorama comprising of 18 photos in total. Taken with 5diii & 17mm f/4 tilt shift lens.

A winter sunset over collingwood and fitzroy HDR

mark — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 13:14:08 +0000

I took this photo last week of the beautiful sunset over collingwood and fitzroy. It was taken on one of the coldest winters day in 8 years. it is a 3 shot HDR, taken handheld with 85/1.2 @ ISO400, 5dii body.

FREE PUSSY RIOT!!!

mark — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 09:44:07 +0000

A show of solidarity in Melbourne, Australia for the plight of pussy riot, a Russian feminist punk-rock collective who have been recently jailed in Russia & are facing charges of “hooliganism” which carry a 7 year prison term.

You can find out more information by visiting here. In the meantime, Please enjoy these two photos; which have had considerable international coverage.

Gertrude St Projection Festival HDR

mark — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 10:29:15 +0000

A few weeks ago I attended the opening night of Gertrude Street Projection festival, 2012 in Fitzroy / Collingwood. I managed to get some great shots as well as a timelapse, which I will post at a later date. Here are a few of my HDR photographs of the huge projections they did on the public commission housing towers.

St Kilda Jetty HDR

mark — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:39:07 +0000

I shot this HDR while catching up with friends from Whirlpool photography forum; a great online forum which i’ve been involved with for a number of years now. It’s a great place to share ideas, CC & learn.

Photo is a 9 shot HDR of St Kilda Jetty, taken with a EF 16mm f/2.8 lens. I hired this lens for the weekend, which has now resulted in me wanting to explore more Ultra Wide Angle lens action.

Please vote for my image – Gizmodo HDR competition.

mark — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:04:12 +0000

Please vote for my image in a gizmodo HDR contest, by clicking here. & selecting “MARK BURBAN”. It’s very quick & easy & i’d love it if you could do this because i’m a huge fan of HDR & the other guy who is almost winning has a very ugly photo & I think if a HDR has to win; well it should be a good HDR; not some junk voted by ‘most popular’.

Here is my photo; if you like it please vote here.

experimenting with long exposure .gif animations

mark — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:04:34 +0000

i’ve had a chance to experiment with some long exposure .gif animations featuring some shots of peak hour traffic I took on level 88 @ eureka tower skydeck observation platform.

and another…

Long Exposure Stacked Experiments

mark — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:14:46 +0000

here are a selection of images from the siam district of bangkok, thailand. this is a stack of 9 +/- 2 stop long exposures that have been stacked together to create this chaotically busy images.