D A T E : AUGUST 11, 2014
L O C A T I O N : HIDDEN GARDEN, VIGAN CITY, ILOCOS SUR, ILOCOS REGION, PHILIPPINES
C A M E R A : NIKON D80
L E N S : NIKKOR 50MM F/1.8 D
F I L T E R : NONE
M O U N T : HANDHELD
L I G H T : AMBIENT
S E T T I N G S : MANUAL MODE | ISO 100 | 1/400 SEC | F/1.8
P O S T - P R O C E S S I N G N O T E S : CURVES
I love using Nikon’s 50mm f1.8 prime lens. It’s light, fast, unforgivingly sharp and dirt cheap to get. I use it mainly to shoot street scenes, portraits and food. But once in a while, I get a bit crazy and would also use it to do landscapes, which is really a pain with its very narrow field of vision (especially on a cropped censor like my D80) and even insect shots ala macro sans the macro filter.
I would usually set it on its widest aperture, f/1.8, and try my darnedest to capture an insect along its very narrow depth of field. It is quite challenging; the DOF being so thin that the most miniscule of movements would leave your subject out of focus.
Bring in the fact that you can’t really get very close to your subject since it is really not a macro lens. What I do instead, having no real macro lens at my disposal, is simply include the subject’s environment into play. It works pretty well, that is until my pocket—which also has a very shallow depth of field—allows me to get a real macro lens.
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