West Coast Classic 2014

Tried messing with the 14-150 (28-300mm) Telezoon cause I wanted to see what the limitations were with the lens, especially with regards to color rendering.

The first 5 photos below are shot with the 25mm (50mm) Prime, while the rest below were with the telezoom.

With regards to the photos from the telezoom below. there's something weird about the color of the photos which I just can't pin point.

I'm not sure if I should blame it on the lens or on my white balance. I did note that most of my color issues were when facing the stage, including the photo of Al and Colin above that was taken with the prime, I had to PP that to add some warmth into it, so it could just be a background issue.

I didn't shoot the chairs with the telezoom though which I should have, I also didn't take the opportunity to take a f5.6 25mm focal range with the telezoom and compare it directly with the 25mm prime at the same aperture.

Initially when shooting directly from my seat, I wasn't pleased with the lighting, it was flat, very very flat, I was quite cheesed off for being lazy and not moving my ass down to the stage area to take more shots.

From a different perspective without the weird background color, I felt the colors worked better. At 14mm, the color of the shots were good enough for me (I did little PP to warm up the colors a little), and when zoomed it, it was a hit or miss. I was shooting at mainly 1/200 - 1/250. I tried 1/160 at times too which worked for a few images.

Cause of the harsh lighting from the stage, I took Colin's advise and set up a fill light at the side to deal with shadows. I should have checked my white balance again cause I got a color that I felt was a bit too muted for my liking. Photos of Marcus seem a bit flat in my opinion, still got to work on getting that right.

After forcing myself to deal with the limitations of the telezoom, overall I'm pretty pleased with its performance. It's not up there with the prime, and struggles with color indoors as compared to the prime, but in daylight it handles colors well enough, for a walkabout lens it'll do well enough for me for the time being.