So why do I say it’s too close? Well, at this magnification, the depth of field is really too small to get much in the way of usable shots with moving subjects (e.g. flowers, under the influence of a gentle breeze). With patience (and a tiny bit of something akin to a spray-and-pray-type approach to …
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Too Close, part 2: Hair Studies (2, contd…)
Too Close, part 1: Hair Studies (2)
The mamiya/sekor 50mm is a wonderful lens, and it’s great for just about any macro situation, what with its excellent sharpness, luscious bokeh, and general ease of use. But I wanted to try something different for a bit… Enter the Nikkor 24mm f/2.8, a wonderful lens in its own right, quite a nice angle of …
7/52-41 Eating & Drinking
This married life is keeping me wonderfully busy: Alhamdulillah! I don’t know if I mentioned this before or not, but for a week or so, I wondered why life got so much busier after marriage. After all, there are two people around to do the chores, go for groceries, and etc., and so shouldn’t there …
7/52-24@24mm
I felt as if I didn’t do much shooting this last week, but when I loaded the week’s pictures into the computer, I found I shot almost every day, at least 9 or 10 pictures, so I guess I did alright, at least as far as whipping out the camera goes… That said, I didn’t …
7/52-19 Manual Focus Week!
aka “MF Week!” but I didn’t want to be ambiguous about it… So I decided to only use old manual lenses this week. These included the Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 ai, the Nikon 36-72mm f/3.5 E Series, the Nikon 75-150mm Zomb-E Series, and the Vivitar 70-210mm f/3.5 Series 1 (Kiron, maybe). I thought about going crazy …
7/52-08 Macrobstractions
Well, I suppose I was a bit lazy this week, but I did want to shoot some Macro Abstractions again—it has been awhile, after all—and I am in the middle of building my own WordPress theme and doing some site optimization, so my shooting time was a bit limited. It was mostly laziness, though. At …
