{"id":328,"date":"2008-10-05T13:39:06","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T03:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=328"},"modified":"2008-10-05T14:05:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T04:05:19","slug":"the-800mm-fashion-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"The 800mm fashion shot"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was helping another photographer yesterday shooting a very quirky fashion style shoot in the middle of the busy streets of Melbourne’s tramways. Instead of me holding his strobes, I suggested I show him what my lowly Olympus E510 could do from 100m away at a 35mm equivalent focal length reach of 800mm hand held.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even with this relatively compact outfit in the fading light, many passing by asked who the famous model was and did their best to distract me so I would get hit by a tram.<\/p>\n

Despite my shakes, the image stabiliser on the E510 worked well enough at 1\/200th second, f7, ISO 400 to take shots like this one.<\/p>\n

\"800mm<\/p>\n

Now, the 60’s outfit, etc will not be to everyone’s taste, and the sharpness may not allow a poster size advertisement to be scrutinised closely without criticism, but the point of the shot is, that this shot with such a compact, carry anywhere outfit is currently only possible with the Four Thirds system and in this case with two great optics – ZD 50-200mm f\/2.8-3.5 SWD and the ZD EC-20 2x teleconverter.<\/p>\n

For the tech heads, I have added some vignetting and contrast in Lightroom and some selective sharpening in PS.<\/p>\n

Now, I had to also demonstrate to him how good the ZD 50-200mm lens is on its own at 200mm (ie. 400mm eq. focal length) for outdoor portraiture to blur and compress the background.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This time we are in a back alley in Melbourne’s CBD, and we decided to go for a non-traditional, emotive portrait with a bit of anguish, and a touch disturbed – I do like emotional expressive works when dealing with people as a canvas. perhaps the model read my mind!<\/p>\n

\"anguish\"<\/p>\n

Larger size images are available here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was helping another photographer yesterday shooting a very quirky fashion style shoot in the middle of the busy streets of Melbourne’s tramways. Instead of me holding his strobes, I suggested I show him what my lowly Olympus E510 could do from 100m away at a 35mm equivalent focal length reach of 800mm hand held. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,65,14,26,37,43],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-e510","tag-fashion","tag-olympus","tag-portrait","tag-zd-50-200mm","tag-zd-ec20"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}