Canon Lens

[Stancyeze]

Anyone know a good Canon wide angle lens that fits a T2i. Or just anything that's good for rollers? I've had my stock lens for awhile and it's not cutting it.

Thanks


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[Minuki]

10-22mm is a killer wide angle lens. I had it for my T2i. It's designed for crop bodies, so you get more field of view.

However, if you upgrade to full frame in the future, it won't fit

[avidworks]

Sigma 17-50 f2.8 is a great lens if you want a walkaround zoom.

[Kielan]

Which kit lens are you using?

[Stancyeze]

Which kit lens are you using?

18-55mm I believe. Just the stock lens.

[Kielan]

18-55mm I believe. Just the stock lens.

Please don't take this the wrong way.

With that lens on a crop body you shouldn't have any issue getting the rollers you want. Perhaps it's more a fault of where you are trying to take them. I personally would never go wider than what you have as you get so much distortion and it really loses a lot of what makes rollers so awesome.

I personally never had anything wider than the kit lens on my T2i, and after some time and some upgrades, I switched to a 35L, and haven't had anything wider since. You need to challenge yourself more to get the shots with what you have right now. Or if you really want a challenge do what I did get a 50 1.8 next and shoot exclusively with that. Once you really lock down your fundamentals with that, and feel really comfortable with it, then try expanding to new glass.

[Stancyeze]

Please don't take this the wrong way.

With that lens on a crop body you shouldn't have any issue getting the rollers you want. Perhaps it's more a fault of where you are trying to take them. I personally would never go wider than what you have as you get so much distortion and it really loses a lot of what makes rollers so awesome.

I personally never had anything wider than the kit lens on my T2i, and after some time and some upgrades, I switched to a 35L, and haven't had anything wider since. You need to challenge yourself more to get the shots with what you have right now. Or if you really want a challenge do what I did get a 50 1.8 next and shoot exclusively with that. Once you really lock down your fundamentals with that, and feel really comfortable with it, then try expanding to new glass.

Thank you, didn't take that the wrong way. It's always good to get pointers as I am practically just starting to get "decent" at shooting. I'm really having trouble with rollers though and those are probably my favorite shots of cars. They are coming out blurry a lot of the time, but when I get one that isn't blurry it comes out very good. Any advice? Also any advice on night time rollers? I know those are a lot more difficult, just if you have any pointers that would help.

Thanks!

[Kielan]

I rarely ever take night rollers, but if I do, I jack up the ISO and try to find a well lit area of highway, so you can be going faster and use a shutter speed that isn't impossible to work with.

As far as getting crisp rollers, I always used the idea that shutter speed should be equivalent to actual speed (within reason), for 50+ mph I'm using 1/50 or less. Start faster and work your way lower so you can really start to nail them. I also burst shoot as I know that just doing individual shots I won't get the results I want, so I'll do a burst of 10 photos or so. My keeper rate on rollers is like 1 of 25, so don't worry about not having every shot come out perfectly.

[KevinECSP]

I rarely ever take night rollers, but if I do, I jack up the ISO and try to find a well lit area of highway, so you can be going faster and use a shutter speed that isn't impossible to work with.

As far as getting crisp rollers, I always used the idea that shutter speed should be equivalent to actual speed (within reason), for 50+ mph I'm using 1/50 or less. Start faster and work your way lower so you can really start to nail them. I also burst shoot as I know that just doing individual shots I won't get the results I want, so I'll do a burst of 10 photos or so. My keeper rate on rollers is like 1 of 25, so don't worry about not having every shot come out perfectly.

Well put. Not every picture is going to be crisp, there's a little bit of spray and pray to it. Make sure you have continuous shooting on, start with a higher shutter speed and work your way down once you get more comfortable.

I find that most blurry shots are caused by myself, bouncing up and down, side to side, in the shooting car. I'm not sure how you are taking your rollers. If you're hanging halfway out the window, or an open door, etc... but the vehicle your shooting from makes a big difference. Try and find a roomy vehicle with a soft suspension to shoot from, a truck bed is a good spot, or if in an suv/wagon use the cargo area and shoot through an open tail gate, or van's with sliding side doors would work really well and can also shoot in the cargo area through the back.

I would still consider replacing your kit lens though. Just to get better quality pictures all around. I really like the Tamron 17-50mm 2.8f. Its a good quality, cheaper lens that takes great photos.

[Stancyeze]

I rarely ever take night rollers, but if I do, I jack up the ISO and try to find a well lit area of highway, so you can be going faster and use a shutter speed that isn't impossible to work with.

As far as getting crisp rollers, I always used the idea that shutter speed should be equivalent to actual speed (within reason), for 50+ mph I'm using 1/50 or less. Start faster and work your way lower so you can really start to nail them. I also burst shoot as I know that just doing individual shots I won't get the results I want, so I'll do a burst of 10 photos or so. My keeper rate on rollers is like 1 of 25, so don't worry about not having every shot come out perfectly.

Well put. Not every picture is going to be crisp, there's a little bit of spray and pray to it. Make sure you have continuous shooting on, start with a higher shutter speed and work your way down once you get more comfortable.

I find that most blurry shots are caused by myself, bouncing up and down, side to side, in the shooting car. I'm not sure how you are taking your rollers. If you're hanging halfway out the window, or an open door, etc... but the vehicle your shooting from makes a big difference. Try and find a roomy vehicle with a soft suspension to shoot from, a truck bed is a good spot, or if in an suv/wagon use the cargo area and shoot through an open tail gate, or van's with sliding side doors would work really well and can also shoot in the cargo area through the back.

I would still consider replacing your kit lens though. Just to get better quality pictures all around. I really like the Tamron 17-50mm 2.8f. Its a good quality, cheaper lens that takes great photos.

There's different way rollers can look. For example, everything can be still, or everything can be moving but the car. I love the look of everything moving including the wheels. I can never get the wheels to stay rotating in my pictures. It looks like the car is in the middle of the road just sitting.. Any advice on that? Basically a shot where the wheels are rotating and the entire background is as well.

[Staggered]

There's different way rollers can look. For example, everything can be still, or everything can be moving but the car. I love the look of everything moving including the wheels. I can never get the wheels to stay rotating in my pictures. It looks like the car is in the middle of the road just sitting.. Any advice on that? Basically a shot where the wheels are rotating and the entire background is as well.

Do what Kielan and Kevin said and you will get effect your looking for. When your shutter speed is too fast the wheels look like they aren't moving in the picture.

[Stancyeze]

Awesome! Thanks for all the help guys. I just ordered the 50mm 1.8 so I'm gonna try that out as well as using my kit lens.

[Kielan]

Good to hear. If you have any questions feel free to PM me, I'm always down to help.

Try stopping down a few stops and dropping your shutter speed to around 1/80th and see what you can get, then from there try dropping your shutter speed more and more, and stopping down accordingly. There's a ton of factors based on the time of day you're shooting, use your camera in Tv mode and set the shutter speed, and let the camera take care of the rest.

[JJ.]

Also went from the 18-55 kitlens to the 1.8 50, what a difference, love the DOF also.
Giving me more options and creativity for a small price.

[Minuki]

I shot this with a 50mm.