[Biscuit761]

Am really pleased with this new lens, have had it a week now and have finally started to get used to it, Nikon 18 - 55 is now back in its box, kept for when camera gets upgraded (long way off now)

Have messed about with macro and standard photography, nothing out of the ordinary here but thought it was time for another post. All but the first are with the 17 - 70 (first was the Sigma 70 - 300). Main PP was crop - resize a small amount of USM and border added.

1 Purple flower

2 Another different purple flower

3 French Marigold (showing off now !)

4 Poppies and daisies

5 More P & D

6 Couple of views of a small spider - cropped quite heavily but still had to re-size down to fit, spider was about 5mm long

7 Spider again

8 Drove back from Nayland to Boxford and came across this small lake, had some enormous carp which I missed someone feeding, picture was at about F22 and 1/4 sec with polarisor.

Loads more but too tired now. Am loving the feel, look and capabilities of this lens.

Bill

[horribleman]

Number 4 and 6 are my favourites. The Poppy one is beautiful - lovely vivid colours and a great composition.

The Spider is pin-sharp with lovely narrow DoF.

Fantastic shots.

The lake shot is nice too, could have maybe done with some foreground

[hot-fuzz]

Great shots,
this has finally convinced me that this is the walkabout lens i need to fill the gap in my lens range.

I have asked in anotehr of your threads, how do you do that border ? I know its not to everynes liking, but i got some shots that need that border.

[Biscuit761]

Highlander, sorry I missed your question.

Crop and resize image to forum rules (I make it 780 pixels when I am adding border)

In Photoshop CS2 (not sure about anything else) select and copy your image

Open a new window and make the page white and 20 pixels bigger

Paste the image into the new page and then double click on the new layer in "Layers" box

A new box will open, I click on the Drop Shadow, Outer Glow and then Contour in the Bevel and Emboss sub menu.

Thats all there is to it.

Bill

[BananaTiger]

Glad you are liking the lens. It's on my body most of the time too. Love the spider macros.

[Yandros]

Great pics. Love the poppy, the first spider and the lake

That's an amazingly versatile lens!

Btw, is it just me/my monitor, or are the poppies a smidge over-sharpened? (I'm seeing halos)

[jamesbryan17]

the first poppy one is slightly, but it can't really be noticed until you actually start looking for them (halo's)

[loz]

Nice pics.

the spider photo's suggest this lens has good close focusing abilities.
What was the exif on those? What focal length was the lens at for these?

thanks

[Liquid101]

Nice shots. It certainly looks like a versitile lens.

I think the poppies are a touch oversharpened, the halo's jump out a little. But other than that they're all nice images.

I think the second is my favourate. The slight underexposure has muted the colours nicely.

[scoobysti]

superb shots matey, hope you dont mind me crashing your post biscuit but here are a few more using this great lens, im really enjoying using it. took these this evening at my local yard

these are only resized not cropped, very little post processing done

[hot-fuzz]

Gits, jsut bought one (and a UV filter + Stofen Omni bounce) combined total of £214 delivered from onestop.

Roll on the weekend.

[Steve Zissou]

I really want one of these lenses, but before splashing the cash, will I notice a real improvement over the 18-55 kit lens on my 400D? I'm hoping for slightly sharper images if possible. the 2.8 at 17mm will definately come in handy too.