On this episode of the redefine show
I illustrate how you can take one rather versatile lens and get
extraordinary macro,
beautiful closeups and classic portraits. Join me.
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Adorama TV. Hi this is Tamara Lackey and on this episode of the redefine show
for Adorama TV,
I'm gonna show you one of my favourite lenses. The ultra versatile,
105mm, 2.8 micro lens. It’s technically called the micro 105mm, f/2.8 lens from Nikkor.
But it's a macro lens. Micro and macro are pretty interchangeable terms,
and what you can use it for is not only near 1:1 magnification of
any sort of object, which means you can go extremely close-up and show
exactly the size of the object in the full frame
but you can also stand back and use it as a portrait lens. It's fairly quick
as a lens. Not super quick, not as quick as say the 24-70mm f/2.8 lens.
But you can get some action out of it as well. I'm gonna show that off with are
wonderful model today, mister Caleb.
Caleb thank you for joining us today. Like to say hi?
Okay Caleb is coming to us with artistic clothing. He actually designed this
shirt himself.
That’s very impressive. We're going to show how I can use this lens the macro
capabilities, to go extraordinarily close.
The difference between this lens and other macro lenses that I've used in the
past,
is that you do have that 1:1 magnification, where you can get very close in,
and you can at anytime use the autofocus. You can jump to a manual focus.
So if you're getting very very close and your finding that the lens
isn't exactly grabbing the focal points that you want. You can simply switch to
the manual mode. Am a lot of times people have a question about the way the lens works. On the
outside it has MA or in an M, and the MA simply means it's the autofocus that's
all that means.
So sometimes people even scratch out the M or will put a duck tape over it or
something just not to be confused.
The M is the manual mode. So I will switch to a manual mode if I'm getting
extraordinarily close and finding that I'm not getting everything in focus that I
want.
What the lens does well, is that it'll auto calculate what I need for a depth
of field as I'm getting closer and closer to
by object or my subject. So in this case we're gonna show how you can take Caleb
and fill the entire frame with just his eye
by using these capabilities. This is Tamara Lackey
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If I'm gonna do a macro shot
I'm gonna switch to, in these lighting conditions I'm gonna be a ISO 100.
I know that i'm gonna go very close in and i want a lot
in focus. So I'm gonna go ahead and
choose a smaller aperture which lets more in focus. In this case I'm gonna do
about a 5,6.
Then because I'm gonna lose some light on that I can drop my shutter
speed
to about 1/200th. This is about the selection I’m gonna choose right now.
You stay tight there. All I need is your eye. Make your eyes happy. Okay.
Very good. They look medium happy.
Thats happier, good. Alright and so if I get it this close
then I can make small little adjustments. Like as I'm getting in this close I can tell that I
need to drop my shutter speed. So I’m gonna go down to 1 1/ 25th.
Alright give me your eye. Bring it. Beautiful
Stay. Excellent and then what I have is a full 1:1
of his eye in the frame. So thats the macro capabilities of the lens. I could do that
ten episodes on the macro capabilities of this lens because they're so sharp.
But in this case I want to show you again the versatility
and why I grab this lens on nearly every shoot.
Here I’m gonna do a portrait. Just a simple portrait and show you how this can be a gorgeous
classic portrait lens because it has some of those
killer attributes. First of all with the focal length is very flattering
for my subject. I get a very sharp crisp capture of my subject but I get that
beautiful bokeh or that soft background
where it’s blurred and just really has a lovely look to it.
Sara can you help me out for a second? Thank you. The lovely Sara.
If you could come over and do me a favour and just bounce some light up into my
subject.
So I can get a really clean portrait of him.
Let's try something where we're gonna bring it a little bit,
yeah exactly right like that. What I'm looking for with this fill is just to get
some good bounce in his eyes.
Caleb do me a favor put your hand like in your pocket maybe like this. Just
simple,yeah.
Exactly just a shot like that and I’m gonna use this at an f/2.8. I've got him
really separated from the background which is what I want for a lovely portrait
like this with good bokeh.
I’m gonna step back, good. Beautiful
excellent smiling.Lastly at least for the purposes of this show,
I’m gonna show how I like using this lens as a close-up lens. Not a portrait, not a macro
just a nice clean focus of the head in this, maybe a little of the shoulders.
Beautiful Caleb just like that.
Thanks so much for joining me on this episode. Join me next time
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awesome content and on a future episode I'll try to show you the fast-moving
subjects. How you can use this lens for speedy, speedy moving people.
See you soon.
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