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Camera rambles
Aug. 24th, 2013 07:38 pmI bought a new camera lens on a whim and it has forced me to start using some scary manual settings that I've always avoided until now (I'm really a point-and-click girl at heart).
It has a very wide aperture, which means that it can take pics with an incredibly shallow focus (e.g. you can accidentally get portraits where the nose is in focus but the eyes are blurred, and so on.) This takes a bit of getting used to and I have had to focus manually quite often just to get anything at all in focus. Other times I have had to close up the aperture a bit in order to get more sharpness. Most 'manual' of all is that it has no zoom capability... you actually have to use your legs and walk to the place where you want to frame the shot.
Anyway I've had it a day and have been practicing. A lot of people love this lens because it does a very pretty line in 'blur' and seems to create magical light all by itself, so that the pics come out luminescent. I can see what they mean.
In these shots of the sleeping Microbe, he was blessedly still and it gave me a chance to play about a bit with manual focus. In the second and third pics, I had a go at the same shot twice, firstly focused on his eyelashes and then on his lips...
These random housey shots are more exercises in selective focus...
In these outdoor shots I found it a bit tricky to get a crisp focus but I do still like the way it has captured the light and the colours...
A one-off fiddle with sepia (sorry it's a bit Athena)
Well that's all from me. I just wanted to ramble a bit about my lens, really, and it didn't really fit into the topic of my other blogs... hence I have done it here.
It has a very wide aperture, which means that it can take pics with an incredibly shallow focus (e.g. you can accidentally get portraits where the nose is in focus but the eyes are blurred, and so on.) This takes a bit of getting used to and I have had to focus manually quite often just to get anything at all in focus. Other times I have had to close up the aperture a bit in order to get more sharpness. Most 'manual' of all is that it has no zoom capability... you actually have to use your legs and walk to the place where you want to frame the shot.
Anyway I've had it a day and have been practicing. A lot of people love this lens because it does a very pretty line in 'blur' and seems to create magical light all by itself, so that the pics come out luminescent. I can see what they mean.
In these shots of the sleeping Microbe, he was blessedly still and it gave me a chance to play about a bit with manual focus. In the second and third pics, I had a go at the same shot twice, firstly focused on his eyelashes and then on his lips...
These random housey shots are more exercises in selective focus...
In these outdoor shots I found it a bit tricky to get a crisp focus but I do still like the way it has captured the light and the colours...
A one-off fiddle with sepia (sorry it's a bit Athena)
Well that's all from me. I just wanted to ramble a bit about my lens, really, and it didn't really fit into the topic of my other blogs... hence I have done it here.
