Timecut Photography

With the crazy cold weather today (20° F),  I thought I would kick off the week with a lot of bright colors.  I balanced the exposure specifically to just reveal enough of the setting sun’s color to add a sense of the dramatic.

I’m greatly impressed with its versatility and quality of built and design with the canon TS-E 45mm.  But the locking and tilt/shift control knobs are a little bit too small for comfort but they operate perfectly well. There is some light fall off at the edges fully shifted with the aperture wide open but from f8 this is not a problem. It’s a rewarding lens to use, very versatile, but you really must shoot a lot with it to get the hand of the T/S concepts and be able to effectively use them to capture what you’ve envisioned.
Canon 5DMKII with Canon TS-E 45mm at f2.8, ISO 200

I just love the Canon TS-E45mm lens. It is a very sharp lens, wide-open is ok but at f4.0 it gets even sharper. Color is accurate and the bokeh is just breathtaking. I have to take the meeting reading at no shift and tilt first or it will lose light with increasing shift and the camera won’t meter accurately. I think it’s an excellent lense, and recommend it to the right audience. You just have to learn how to use it properly to get the best results.
Canon 5DMKII with Canon TS-E 45mm at f2.8, ISO 200

We haven’t posted an image from the sky in quite a while. These images were made a months ago. We headed to the Belt Parkway to see if we could capture some great sunset images. We didn’t get any sunset but we got some great cloud features in the sky with circular polarizer filter.
1st. Canon 40D with Tokina 11-16mm f11 @ 1/90 second at ISO 200.
2nd. Canon 40D with Tokina 11-16mm f11 @ 1/90 second at ISO 200.
3rd. Canon 40D with Tokina 11-16mm f4 @ 1/750 second at ISO 200.