Sigma 18-50 f2.8 EX pictures C&C welcome

Borderfox

I got one of these in the end and I have to say really happy with the results

A friends horse called Lily who is being retired this weekend, brutal background but not too bad in b&w


Spirit and Dillon saying hello


Both pictures shot wide open at f2.8 First shot 1/60th at 18mm and second at 1/50th at 38mm Second was on servo and centre point hence the centred composition

Fajitas!

Thumbs up for the first one. The second one would do with a more 'romantic' crop for want of a better word.

If you're not adverse to photoshop, there's a hell of a lot of potential in the first one!

As we're here, what's your opinion of the lens?

Borderfox

The lens is excellent, I liked the range with the kit lens but was dissapointed with the quality. The Sigma fitted the bill, I know some people have gotten bad copies but had no problems with it even in servo in low light. Lens feels like a good balance on the 350D, good results at wide open which I am particulary happy with. What would you do with the first in PS, I was going to tweak the levels maybe try and darken the background. Thanks for the comments Fajitas.

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Nice shots border ,
Have you set up a website yet???

Fenster

I like #1 a lot

5uspect

I'd use the lens correction option under the filter menu to fake some additional background blur. Maybe just use a highly feathered rough selection to mask the horse. I'm sure there's lots of fancy stuff you can do with the B&W conversion.

Both shots are really well composed, very happy looking. good luck with the new lens.

Zillah

What I had posted before the database went boom was:

Blah blah I did an edit, personal preference:

Borderfox

Thanks Zillah