spring at the harbor

March 21, 2010 | Filed Under friends, practice shoots 

i cannot tell you guys how thrilled i am that the season is finally turning… with a day like today, we couldn’t help but go up to baltimore harbor to spend the afternoon with family and friends, enjoying seafood and sunshine. i had rented the amazing canon 85mm 1.2L lens for a shoot this weekend and wanted to play around/practice with it, so this was the perfect opportunity. it also helped having a couple of extremely photogenic and photo-happy friends who really didn’t mind my experimenting ON them with the lens… as well as experimenting with them in photoshop… :) thanks humera and jawad! i really love you guys!

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13 Responses to “spring at the harbor”

  1. Renee Bell on March 21st, 2010 3:17 am

    wow – great shots….
    Dont have the 85mm but I hope to buy it one day…

  2. Albert Palmer on March 21st, 2010 3:29 am

    Wow, that kens sure does take great pictures! ;o)

  3. David McNeil on March 21st, 2010 6:02 am

    you gotta love that lens! you have used the DOF to great effect here – wonderful stuff, and a great set of “test” subjects to work with as well!

  4. Marianne Taylor on March 21st, 2010 10:42 am

    The profile shot with the yummy bokeh is pretty amazing. Loving the sunny feel of this overall.

  5. Leon on March 21st, 2010 5:01 pm

    Really loving the depth of field you’ve got with these. I agree with Marienne, the profile shot with the bokeh lights is a winner!

  6. Stefano Choi on March 21st, 2010 5:53 pm

    Wow, that lens just makes some of the dreamiest bokeh I have ever seen.

  7. Kelly on March 21st, 2010 6:23 pm

    I ADORE this lens! (Well, the Nikon version. :-) It creates such stunning images.

  8. Becca on March 21st, 2010 7:16 pm

    LOVE that third shot! So gorgeous! Glad you got to go out and play with the new lens :)

  9. Kyle on March 22nd, 2010 2:00 am

    Holy bokeh. So yeah, I’d say it’s a keeper :)

  10. Steve Koo on March 22nd, 2010 12:11 pm

    Lovely set, Ayesha. The 85L is a fantastic lens!

  11. gabe aceves on March 22nd, 2010 1:51 pm

    great stuff ayesha. the 85 rocks.

  12. Vida Carson on March 22nd, 2010 9:06 pm

    Wow, Ayesha! These are such gorgeous images!

  13. beautyis on March 22nd, 2010 9:57 pm

    hey everyone, thanks sooo much for the comments!! yeah, it’s funny… after this day, i was thinking it might not be worth it to lug it around to too many shoots (i should repeat, this WAS rented – i don’t own this lens!) – BUT i used it at my bridal shoot the next day (yesterday) and fell in love all over again. it’s a sickness, this photography obsession… i don’t know how many unaffordable L primes i will fall in love with and break my back lugging around to like every shoot.

    btw.. i should have said so in the post, but the bokeh lights portrait… is actually a bokeh texture laid on the image!!! :) i took a similar shot of my husband just a few moments before, tho, and it DID have some real bokeh circles in it, and they just proved to me how awesome the 85L is – compared to these slightly pentagonal ones in the textured image? they were PERFECTLY round. i feel like such a geek drooling over blurry circles of light in a picture and imagining the aperture blades that created them… but there you have it, folks :)

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