I’m wholly dissatisfied with today’s 365 efforts, but I’ve been at it for 5 hours, and it’s now time to join some neighbors for tea, so here’s my favorite of the 80 awful, uninspired, completely blah photos I shot of 4 different subjects. Needless to say, I find this one rather meh.
Sigma 30mm 1.4, ISO100, 1/500th sec., @ f/2.8.
Nikon D7000, Nikkor 50mm 1.8G, deliberately defocused, ISO100, 1/250th sec. @ f/1.8. SB-700 zoomed to 50mm, 1/128th power, on Cactus V5 trigger handheld lower camera right, diffused with a sheet of drawing paper.
or, “I should really think about cleaning my windows…”
The the afternoon light bounces around in fabulous ways here at the Grigsby. The shaft of light is a reflection of the sun, bouncing off of a decorative glass railing on the second floor landing across from the courtyard.
Since I started shooting, I’ve become much more conscious of light and the little tricks it plays, and I seem to be noticing more and more with each passing day. Good times and GoGo, I say.
And this was shot with the rather ignored Nikon 36-72mm f/3.5 E Series lens, at 72mm (ignore the exif: it doesn’t do ’72’ so I went with 70 in the non-cpu lens data setup thingy), ISO800, 1/320th, f/5.6.
Well this camera was a waste of 99 cents. Jeez.
In one or two of the shots, I cranked down the effect, but I’ll dare you to find which one.
Yuck.
Oh. Wait. I found them…
Shots 16-20, second-to-the-last row on the bottom, and the last image in the third row up… the flower shots that are all the same, or roughly the same. 16 has the least amount of effect, 20 the most (obviously).
I like the border, I suppose, and the slight shadow on the inside of the frame, and I don’t mind the versions with no effect or even up to maybe 40% effect, maybe even half… any more than that, and this camera is utterly useless for my purposes.
You might find some use for it, maybe. And maybe I will as well. But I doubt I’ll be looking too hard… this camera is one to skip, unless, like me, you buy everything Synthetic puts out, or maybe you just like burning money. Sure, it’s only about a third of a cup of coffee, maybe a cheap bottle of water worth of cash, but it’s also a dollar to a worthy cause.
365.29 Tacoma (for lack of a better title… I’m feeling really out of it today… I guess I could call it ‘the Arrival’ or somesuch, or ‘Nessie’ in reference to the shadow and its similarity to the blurry photos of that lake monster, but I’m pretty much a big meh today. Meh.)
Nikkor 50mm 1.8G, ISO800, 1/60, f/2.8.
And this is the fastest 365 shoot yet… 7 shots of the inside of the CerealBoxStripBox and this was number 7, straight out of the camera (or as straight out of the camera as it can be, given that I shoot RAW and downsized this from 4928×3264 to 800×530…)
I think this captures the light magnification qualities of an aluminum foil covered tube pretty well. Good times.
Sigma 30mm 1.4, ISO100, 1/25th, f/1.4, -1 ev (leftover from yesterday, and forgotten about until I looked at the EXIF… sheesh. When will I learn?)
Ladies & Gentlemen, meet Olive. She’s really very very sweet, and terribly fluffy, but she would prefer to nap without being interrupted by a SB-700 popping in her face, even when it’s popping through a cereal-box strip-box.
Oh well.
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