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	<title>dual(ité) &#187; Nikon 50mm 1.8</title>
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		<title>jamal x3</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we made our last payment on the car two years ago, my girlfriend said: &#8220;ok, let&#8217;s find someone to clean the house!&#8221;. So Jamal and Bouchra have been coming in every two weeks since then. And we&#8217;ve become friends along the way. So this morning I was trying to figure out a look I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><!--:en-->When we made our last payment on the car two years ago, my girlfriend said: &#8220;ok, let&#8217;s find someone to clean the house!&#8221;. So Jamal and Bouchra have been coming in every two weeks since then. And we&#8217;ve become friends along the way. So this morning I was trying to figure out a look I had in mind, using myself as a subject &#8211; which is always painstakingly slow and awkward. I asked Jamal if he&#8217;d like to sit for a few minutes and he was nice enough to agree. I&#8217;m really glad he did.</p>
<p>P.S This was also shot with the <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://diode.tv/blog/2009/03/24/trendy-baby-50mmle-retour-50mm/">50mm 1.8</a></p>
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<p><!--:--><!--:fr-->Lorsque nous avons fini de payer notre voiture il y a deux ans, ma copine a suggéré de trouver quelqu&#8217;un pour venir faire le ménage à la maison. Depuis ce temps Jamal et Bouchra font ce travail toutes les deux semaines. Et nous somme devenus amis. Ce matin j&#8217;essayais de fignoler une idée de look que j&#8217;avais en tête en m&#8217;utilisant moi-même comme sujet &#8211; une tâche lente et maladroite. J&#8217;ai demandé à Jamal s&#8217;il voulait venir s&#8217;asseoir quelques minutes et il a gentiment accepté. J&#8217;en suis très heureux&#8230;</p>
<p>P.S ces photos ont aussi été prises avec le <a href="http://diode.tv/blog/2009/03/24/trendy-baby-50mmle-retour-50mm/">50mm 1.8</a></p>
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		<title>trendy baby: 50mm</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s all over the place. In blogs (great read btw) and in photo mags &#8211; the 50mm prime lens is the talk of the town. It&#8217;s almost annoying really. I mean, if the masses start taking these amazingly sharp and bokeh filled pictures where are we going to go? All kidding aside, I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><!--:en-->It&#8217;s all over the place. In <a href="http://visualsciencelab.blogspot.com/2009/03/fifty-millimeters-glorious-optics-of.html">blogs</a> (great read btw) and in <a href="http://www.popphoto.com/Features/Battle-of-the-50-s">photo mags</a> &#8211; the 50mm prime lens is the talk of the town. It&#8217;s almost annoying really. I mean, if the masses start taking these amazingly sharp and bokeh filled pictures where are we going to go?</p>
<p>All kidding aside, I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s getting the credit it deserves: this is probably the best bang for the buck lens you can buy and one of my favorites. Fast, sharp, discrete and cheap. Nothing wrong with cheap these days.</p>
<p>Of course it&#8217;s no longer the &#8220;normal&#8221; focal length &#8211; unless you&#8217;re wielding a full frame sensor &#8211; but then it now has the advantage of doubling as a great portrait lens.</p>
<p>So as a tribute here are some shots I took this weekend at a birthday party: all 50mm, all the time. In this case it was the venerable Nikon 50mm 1.8. I was also testing my new SB-900 flash in a live, on-camera indoor setting (I&#8217;d only mostly used it in the studio until now). The walls and ceilings were all white which made for great bouncing.</p>
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<p><!--:--><!--:fr-->On en parle partout. Dans les <a href="http://visualsciencelab.blogspot.com/2009/03/fifty-millimeters-glorious-optics-of.html">blogs</a> (bon article &#8211; en anglais) et les <a href="http://www.popphoto.com/Features/Battle-of-the-50-s">magazines photo</a> &#8211; le 50mm est la grande coqueluche du moment. En fait, c&#8217;est un peu frustrant: si monsieur et madame tout le monde se mettent à prendre de superbes photos piquées et affichant le bokeh parfait, qui aura besoin de nous?</p>
<p>Sérieusement, c&#8217;est une bonne chose que cette lentille retrouve ses heures de gloire. Il n&#8217;y rien sur le marché qui puisse offrir un aussi grand rapport qualité/prix et c&#8217;est certainement un de mes outil préféré. Rapide, claire, précise et pas cher. Rien de mal avec &#8220;pas cher&#8221; ces temps-ci.</p>
<p>Ce n&#8217;est évidemment plus la focale &#8220;normale&#8221; &#8211; à moins de travailler avec un appareil plein cadre &#8211; mais en revanche elle peut maintenant faire office de lentille de portrait.</p>
<p>Voice donc, en hommage au retour du héro, une série de photos prises ce weekend à l&#8217;occasion d&#8217;un anniversaire: 50mm mur à mur. J&#8217;ai utilisé dans ce cas-ci le vénérable 50mm 1.8 de Nikon et j&#8217;en ai aussi profité pour tester mon SB-900 dans un contexte intérieur &#8220;live&#8221;, sur-caméra (je ne l&#8217;avais jusqu&#8217;ici utilisé qu&#8217;en studio). Les murs et plafonds étaient tous blanc &#8211; parfait pour le &#8220;bounce&#8221;.</p>
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