Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 56: Shooting with the Nifty 50: Adorama Photography TV

Photoflex Litedisc 52" Circular Collapsable Disc Reflector, Silver / Gold

[hammerhead]

Mark, All your videos are great! Thanks for taking the time to make them. I look forward to them every week.

[MarkWallaceVideos]

@rsramkis We shot with a Nikon D7000, a Nikon D3s and a Canon 5DM2. We added a link to the description so you can see each of these.

[Adorama]

To see Mark's results with each of the different cameras, visit the AdoramaTV flickr page. The link is in the description!

[MrTankera]

Cool! To think that I have the same set up: Nikon D300, Nikon 50-mm lens, Speedlight SB-800 and soon to have the SB-700.
It does not take a lot of equipment to do great work once you focus on the fundamentals...Thanks Mark.

[JosephSicilia]

Hey Mark did you get rid of red-eye in post or am I missing a diffuser of some sort? I use a 7D with the 430 ex II flash and the g fong dome diffuser and that does a great job. Although I haven't had a need for f1.4 yet so the f1.8 little cheapo lens is good enough for now. I will recommend the 70mm f2.8 Sigma macro EX DG for portrait (for the interested viewers). Very sharp and allows you to be not right in the model's face.

[Ticknorphoto]

using a 50mm at f1.4 at that distance, the in-focus area is very shallow. Do you have any hints for using manual focus and keeping the correct area in focus (if you take a deep breath, or the model moves 1 inch, you will miss focus)

[dgufflet]

Hi... How would it looked with a cropped body like the 7d for example?

[MarkWallaceVideos]

@lakaygayyad We shot with a Nikon D7000, a Nikon D3s and a Canon 5DM2.

[ajayonline]

Nikon strap on the 5D Mark II ? or did you switch cameras near the end?... lol Great Video as always!

[FreeTheRocks]

@rsramkis Why? Whatever you see through the viewfinder of either a crop or FF body is what you get on the final image.

[Lilreeces]

Love the videos but the EXIF data from your pics in your Flickr set say that they were shot w the 50mm F1.4 and I thought that ppl were referring to the Canon EF 50mm 1.8 II when they said Nifty 50 or Plastic Fantastic

[billytsim]

The shutter speed is so high, why the ambient light still is so bright?

[lakaygayyad]

it says on flickr that you shot it with d3s

[kauxkaux]

@HollandAmericalover That is the question he is answering... how to get that (overexposed, yes) look... :)

[natend]

Nice video but when I have heard people refer to the "nifty 50" it's for the 1.8 version. Good video as usual. Wish I had camera people and the time to shoot these. Have a good day.

[MarkWallaceVideos]

@onlineahmeds Yes, I over exposed intentionally.

[junglescope]

Those subjects we're terribly over-exposed, or was supposed to be high-key?

[devonmale]

Reflector has constants' amount of light ??? You forget about the Inverse square law Move it back and reduce it Easy.... but you get better shots with a 85mm for DOF control like this. I love my 70-200mm IS f/2.8 for this reason.
OH all this about must have a 50mm lens as it matches your eyes view This is OK for Full frame sensor BUT crop you need something like 30mm

[kauxkaux]

@HollandAmericalover Yeap... overexposed+blown background = Heavenly photo :)

[junglescope]

@kauxkaux Well, I guess that's what he meant by "heavenly".