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Nov 7 2010 01:24am
#1 woulda won contest.
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Nov 7 2010 06:46am
first shot is great. and yeah, it´s a good lens. prolly the best ultra wide angle lens for crop. I´m still waiting for mine to get back from the tokina support. Sent it to them like 3 weeks ago because the lens hood didnt fit correctly..............sucks
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Nov 7 2010 08:55am
The first one is just great :D.

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Nov 7 2010 09:59am
Hey Alpi, awesome work!
It's definitely a shame that it didn't get delivered in time for the contact, the first one with the car would have gotten my vote definitely!
These are all exceptional, especially for the first "motion" shots I've seen posted by you.
I've seen a lot of failed attempts at the "in the car" shot, with the tripod shaking, falling, wrong angle, wrong aperture etc.
You seem to have nailed it!

My only suggestion/challenge would be, can you do the same at night?
Definitely go out and try it, if you can pull off a night shot just like the first one in the car, I think it would definitely be an exceptional shot!

-Spencer


This post was edited by TheBlackRose66 on Nov 7 2010 10:00am
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Nov 7 2010 10:19am
Thanks everybody for the feedback!

Quote (TheBlackRose66 @ 7 Nov 2010 17:59)
Hey Alpi, awesome work!
It's definitely a shame that it didn't get delivered in time for the contact, the first one with the car would have gotten my vote definitely!
These are all exceptional, especially for the first "motion" shots I've seen posted by you.
I've seen a lot of failed attempts at the "in the car" shot, with the tripod shaking, falling, wrong angle, wrong aperture etc.
You seem to have nailed it!

My only suggestion/challenge would be, can you do the same at night?
Definitely go out and try it, if you can pull off a night shot just like the first one in the car, I think it would definitely be an exceptional shot!

-Spencer


Thanks mate, I will surely do that as soon as possible :)
Still I think I could have done a little better, that pic is a bit offset to the right and maybe not perfectly horizontal. There's always room for improvement!


I'd like to add a note about the Tokina. This is a 100% crop of the top right corner of a picture.
Now tell me it's not sharp :o



11 mm
f/11
1/3 second



This post was edited by AlPi on Nov 7 2010 10:19am
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Nov 7 2010 10:26am
This is the picture I took the crop from:



11 mm
f/16
0.6 seconds

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Nov 7 2010 10:31am
Quote (AlPi @ Nov 7 2010 09:26am)
This is the picture I took the crop from:

http://i51.tinypic.com/2mubs.jpg

11 mm
f/16
0.6 seconds


It's somewhat sharp, although I've seen sharper. Your shutter speed had a lot to do with it.
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Quote (onepagememory @ 7 Nov 2010 18:31)
It's somewhat sharp, although I've seen sharper. Your shutter speed had a lot to do with it.


You mean sharper for a tokina or in general?

Remeber it's an extremely wide lens and corners are usually the less sharp parts.

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Quote (AlPi @ Nov 7 2010 09:33am)
You mean sharper for a tokina or in general?

Remeber it's an extremely wide lens and corners are usually the less sharp parts.


I don't own a wide-angle lens, but a female photographer I work with has this insanely sharp Tokina as well. I was like wtf? when I saw it. Did you post edit the distortion on the edges? On a second look, it does look rather sharp.

Which reminds me, last night I shot in about 20% sunset with iso 2600. Awesome quality images. I love the 5dmk II :D
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Quote (onepagememory @ 7 Nov 2010 18:49)
I don't own a wide-angle lens, but a female photographer I work with has this insanely sharp Tokina as well. I was like wtf? when I saw it. Did  you post edit the distortion on the edges? On a second look, it does look rather sharp.

Which reminds me, last night I shot in about 20% sunset with iso 2600. Awesome quality images. I love the 5dmk II :D


The cropped image is absolutely untouched, straight from camera.

I've corrected the distortion only on the full image I took the crop from.

Every picture in post #1 is NOT corrected tho.

I'm using PTlens to correct the distortion and I still don't know if it does a good job. I couldn't say there's disortion in any picture, probably I need more straight lines in a pic to notice it.

Also, the Tokina 11-16 is for cropped sensors only, you can't mount it on a 5D mk II :D

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