Tuesday, February 9, 2010
I’ve temporarily lifted the focal length limit for this month due to historic snowfall. Popped on the zoom lens and got busy snapping pictures, although I can already see that it’s made me a little bit lazy in terms of getting things set up and thinking things through before I shoot.
I see far too many [...]
It’s a day off from work, not for travel or a vacation. But it’s a day off nonetheless. The reason is that no one can get their car out of the snow. Side streets are equally impossible. I realize, midway through the day, that I’m out of toilet paper. Not the last sheets on the [...]
The snow was packed mostly in the street, but there were uneven spots that made me weary. I didn’t notice until he and I were passing each other. He was headed uphill, from the direction I had come. We passed within five feet of each other, silent.
His clothes were from a more civilized era. H’s [...]
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Saturday, February 6, 2010
There is only so much you can do when there is about twenty four inches of snow on the ground. So far today has been filled with reading, drinking various types of hot beverages, eating when the mood strikes, and lazing abouts.
There was a bit of time when I did go shooting though. Lots and [...]
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
This month is a new lens. I’m shooting with the 50mm f/1.8, which is functionally a 75mm equivalent with the 1.5x multiplier for the DX format for Nikon cameras. I’ve found it to be a different experience than my 52mm equivalent lens. It’s the field of view.
With the 75mm, what I’m capturing is a lot [...]
It’s getting close to a month. So. What have I learned?
Specifically, with my D70 I’ve learned a couple of things.
My filter tends to create green ghosts of light on the frame directly opposite the location of the light source. If I remove the filter for indoor shooting, the ghosts do not show up.
At 1600 ISO [...]
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
My camera, well, maybe I should clarify, my serious camera, is the Nikon D70. It’s pretty old and secondhand. By old, I mean It’s about six years old, and that in camera years is about one hundred and fifty. Although I got a good deal on it at the time, I almost weep when I [...]