Here are some new photos from my recent road trip a whopping 10 minute drive from my house. I actually been going here way too much and you’d recognize it from my last post so I need to give this location a break for a while.
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I wanted to visit here one more time to try a cityscape of North Sydney with the 100-400mm which you can see above. Sadly it got a bit hazy and not quite what I like just before blue hour. Despite this I don’t think I’ll try here again for a while but who knows, I may change my mind.
The Canon M5 also came along with me so I could take some images for the upcoming R6 review. While I was doing the long exposures for my cityscape, I took the below image of Ballarat Park with the Sydney CBD in the background. I was glad I had the M5 and 32mm with me otherwise I would have missed this shot.
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We had a storm rolling in which is why we had those crazy clouds in the sky which can be seen above. When looking at it, I felt like the clouds almost looked like a mountain due to its coloring. I also took the below image of the R6 while it was shooting in bulb mode.
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It may seem like a very lackluster image but the main reason for it is I need it in my review to demonstrate the bulb timer. This is one of the things I really love about the R6 and I find I don’t use my wireless trigger as much due to this being more convenient.
New Addition To the Lineup
Surprisingly I decided to sell my Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM and get the RF version. I thought I’d just keep the EF version until it stopped working but after using it properly on the R6, I couldn’t resist it. The lens is actually a bday present from my girlfriend to myself which isn’t until next week so I haven’t ‘officially’ used it if my girlfriend asks 😛 I did take this test shot below to make sure the lens is in working order.
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It was shot wide open with the window to the right giving it that nice natural light. I really like the rendering and bokeh on this lens so I think I’ll be giving the 50mm focal length a lot more use soon. I actually hope to use this lens as much as I can once it’s officially mine and write a review for it. I should probably wait until after I’m done with the R6 and Tamron 100-400mm reviews are done. I am also in the process of selling my M5 to replace it with an EOS M50 Mark II so that will likely get a review as well.
Being that my girlfriend can’t tell my lenses apart, I also took the RF 50mm out to lunch at Meet Mica and got the images you can see below.
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The RF 50mm definitely has some nice rendering which I see see people mention in reviews. At first I though it might get more use than my RF 35mm but now I feel they both have their unique uses. The 35mm is definitely more versatile and better if you want more context but still have a slight shallow DOF whereas the 50mm is more for if you really want a bokehlicious image when up close. I think I’ll be using the 50mm more for a while so I can get a better feel for it.
Failed Attempt
Aside from the above, I did spend one morning try to shoot birds which didn’t go to plan. By the time I got to Centennial Park, the lighting was a bit harsh and I couldn’t see any rare birds. The only half decent image I got was of this tree below which I found nice for some strange reason.
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This was probably due to the fact I shot with the 100-400mm so that compressed look was a bit different. Since then I’ve been meaning to go back and give it another try but since daylight savings has ended and sunset is now 6pm, I haven’t had the time.
My sisters boyfriend was also visiting from interstate so I offered to take some casual portraits of them while we were out at dinner which you can see below.
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I think I would still have preferred to use the 85mm f/2 for these but I’m still in love with the rendering and how nice it is on the RF 35mm. I shot them at quite a high ISO so ran them through Topaz DeNoise which cleaned things up nice.
My goal photo wise is to shoot a new cityscape location which may even be a sunrise shoot but that is all dependent on how the weather looks over the weekend. That concludes this post and if you’d like be notified when I release my new post, please subscribe below. Thanks for reading!
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