Canon 28mm f1.8

All photos straight out of camera - no post processing at all.

Chuck & Jools (Jools is the lighter colored one in the background. 

Taken at 6pm.  f1.8 WB  & ISO set at Auto.  

Only light in the room was a desk lamp (60 watt) and my computer monitor about 8 feet away facing the cage.

Jasmine (above) sat about 4 feet away, hiding behind/beside my camera bag on the stool at the counter.  Same light, same settings, same time.  Lamp & monitor about 9 feet away.

The following morning, Rosie sitting on the desk chair.  All natural light - two skylights overhead, both covered with snow, glass doors partially shaded by blinds about 10 feet or so away (behind the cage), other windows on the other side of the room about 20 feet away.

f1.8 all other settings auto

Jasmine on top of the birdcage. Same natural light as with Rosie.

f2.8, all other settings auto.

Lens Comparison: Canon 18-200 mm vs. Canon 18-135 mm at 18 mm

18-200 mm

18-135 mm

Lens Comparison: Canon 18-200 mm vs Canon 18-135 mm at 50mm

18-200 mm

18-135 mm

Lens comparison: Canon 18-200 mm vs Canon 18-165 mm shot at 135 mm

18-200 mm lens

18-135 mm kit lens

Canon lens test: 50mm F1.4 vs. 28mm f1.8

Meet our Diamond Doves!  They (& their cage) are helping me out with this test. :)  Basically I just turned my desk chair around to shoot these photos.

Shot using ambient light.  Only artificial light is from computer monitor approximately 5 feet away from cage.  There are two skylights (one right overhead, the other across the room), a sliding glass door (seen in the photo below) and three other windows in the room.  However, it is after 4pm here on the East coast & getting darker.  The images make the cage &  room look much brighter than they are.

50mm lens wide open at f1.4.  3200 ISO

Because of the darkness in the room the lens had a problem focussing on the birds (auto-focus used) and so concentrated on the cage.

28mm lens wide open at f1.8.  ISO at 3200 again.   

Canon 50mm f1.4 depth of field test shots (full sun)

Both images shot wide open at f 1.4, Aperture priority (Av), facing into the sun.  Auto ISO set itself at 100.  Standard picture style.  Straight out of the camera, no post-processing at all . :)