{"id":7586,"date":"2010-01-31T22:10:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T14:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=7586"},"modified":"2010-02-01T05:57:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T21:57:06","slug":"baby-faces-at-50mm-%e2%80%93-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/01\/31\/baby-faces-at-50mm-%e2%80%93-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Faces at 50mm \u2013 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first Nikon lens from 1985 was a 50mm f1.8. As those of us who\u2019re amateurs in photography would know, this 50mm focal length lens is especially appropriate for portrait shots. While I did pick up my first zoom lens \u2013 a Nikkor 70-210mm a couple of years later out of my own pocket money \u2013 I spent more time with the 50mm taking portrait shots of my ACJC classmates than the zoom. Those pictures weren\u2019t all good of course (though a couple turned out very well, including one of this classmate I was interested in back then!), but there were a lot of valuable lessons that I learned from trying out, and also from a fellow ACJC enthusiast back then, who today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memphiswest.com\/\">has his own photography studio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to 25 years: I\u2019ve bought a second-hand 50mm f1.8 AF from a colleague in July 2008 but funnily never really used it much with the D300. I like the Sigma 24-60mm f2.8 lens better, what with its small but tremendously useful zoom range, and that it\u2019s tact sharp after I had it calibrated at the Sigma Service Center. Either way, I took the 50mm out for a Sunday spin with Hannah as the test subject. And here\u2019s the outcome after about 90 frames later \u2013 split into two posts. This one below was taken at home in semi-low light.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-hannah-DSC_6154-faces\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/blog2010hannahDSC_6154faces.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-hannah-DSC_6154-faces\" width=\"350\" height=\"527\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yeah I\u2019m all rusty, and I made a couple of noob errors. But the next couple taken at Hougang Mall turned out better.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first Nikon lens from 1985 was a 50mm f1.8. As those of us who\u2019re amateurs in photography would know, this 50mm focal length lens is especially appropriate for portrait shots. While I did pick up my first zoom lens<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/01\/31\/baby-faces-at-50mm-%e2%80%93-part-1\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Baby Faces at 50mm \u2013 Part 1<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,13],"tags":[462,137],"class_list":["post-7586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-children-blues","category-photography-cameras","tag-50mm","tag-d300","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-7-id","wpcat-13-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}