Tim Engle 6/14/19 Tim Engle 6/14/19

30 days with a 40

If you ever hang out with me you'll notice that for the most part, I am a prime lens shooter. Not that I don't like zoom lenses, but they don't have a great place in my bag for what I do. At the moment I have an 85mm prime and the 35mm prime, both from SIGMA. Those two lenses seem to be able to cover everything I need to do from portrait to full body images. Lately, I've been thinking about adding something in the middle, probably a 50mm. Talking with the SIGMA rep, he suggested that I try out the brand new 40mm F1.4 DG HSM. He kindly offered to send it to me to use for a month, well, of course, I'll said yes! When I received the lens in the mail, the first thing that I noticed was this lens was a substantial piece of glass. The build quality on it is impressive, it definitely feels like a solid lens.

Knowing that I had the lens for 30 days, my goal was to put it in as many scenarios as I could to see how the lens performed.

I have to say that I'm very impressed as it has very minimal vignetting for a wide lens. It focuses very fast and is exceptionally sharp. I worked the lens quite a bit at F1.4 and it was always spot on.

I most certainly will be adding this lens to my bag in the near future.

40mm F1.4 DG HSM in action with the amazing Anna Lisa Wagner

Tim Engle 8/24/18 Tim Engle 8/24/18

Cars & Gels

I had a fun photo outing with a local group on Tuesday. The location had some vintage sports car. Now I am NOT a car guy and don’t really shoot many. My plan was to take 1 light and blast it from behind the car and see how the light played.

For the lighting, I used 1 Phottix Indra 500 with a 7” reflector and a 20-degree grid which I had from my Paul C Buff lights. The gels are from the ROSCO “Photo Lighting Kit” #23 orange gel.