Sometimes you go out and hope to come back with a new series of awesome photos.
In the evening the feet are hurting and you didn't achieve anything. Sometimes it simply doesn't happen or you come back with 2 or 3 incoherent shots that are OK enough but certainly are not a series.
In the evening the feet are hurting and you didn't achieve anything. Sometimes it simply doesn't happen or you come back with 2 or 3 incoherent shots that are OK enough but certainly are not a series.
So - you wanted to do an album and end up with a single.
This is, where the singles go...
Telephoto
I had bought myself a converter to use my old Minolta lenses on the new camera. The day I took these photos, I tried to constrain myself to only use the 200 mm tele. This is an interesting exercise to constrain yourself to exactly one part of your gear and to see how far you get with it.
The rule of thumb is: the focal length of a lens on a 35 mm camera multiplied by 1.5 is its effective focal length on a digital camera. So, I had to make do with roughly 300 mm focal length.
That didn't go too well. Of course it is visually pleasing to play with full aperture and narrow focus zone. You see the way distances are compacted and the fuzzy silhouette angle happens all the time.
But if three teenage girls ask you whether you could take a photo of them, you need to walk back 20 steps until you even can fit them in the frame. You are almost always too close.
300 mm is too heavy. Literally too heavy around your neck as well as conceptually for the cityscape.
300 mm is too heavy. Literally too heavy around your neck as well as conceptually for the cityscape.
So in the end I had walked 12 kilometers and ended up with this incongruent mixed deck.
P.S. The old lens isn't that brillant to start with and almost all of the shots are a bit out of focus. If you tasted the sweet fruit of auto-focus, manual focussing with the old lenses sucks. Decadence spoils you within weeks...
Stills
I don't like arranged stills. But sometimes, random stills of random things happen. Sitting somewehere, "manhandling" the camera and suddenly there is a shot worth the effort.
Views
Stuff that caught my eye...
