new lens from wife

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Just got a 17-40 from wife as a Christmas gift.

I am not particularly like this lens in terms of sharpness and color comparing to my beloved 50mm.  But I will trying to learn how to shoot wide angle stuff.  Here are a fews photos from the first outing with my new lens to share with you.  

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Kaka:  yes, she is pretty sweet 3/4 of a month and  telling me to buy more lens.  She is tried of the 50mm look.  

Matt: I only went there to grocery shopping there.  It is a million dollar neighborhood. But we should meet up to do street shooting.

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Thanks Liks.  

As for underexposed, they are all sooc from Lightroom 2.  It was a very contrasty afternoon, I already blow some highlights as it.  It could also be my bad monitor.

As of now, I am not really digging this f4 lens.  Almost no dof, almost has an iphone look to it. Should I try 24 1.4 instead?

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Also good for "shoot from the hip"  Love

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cowboy,  I was about 1 ft from the senor couple, and shooting full frame.  It is the nature of these ultra wides (all photos were in 17-20mm range)  I guess you will need medium format cameras to get wide/thin dof look.  Maybe that is the reason people are still stooding medium format film.