I’m playing around with the various camera lenses I own, which include a rarely-used fixed 50mm focal length. This is “rarely used” because a good deal of what I use the camera for is taking pictures of the kids, and the separation needed to get them in frame with this lens is really difficult to maintain.
The cool thing about it is that it has a really large aperture, so you can get an extremely narrow depth of field, which makes for some cool focus effects. The lack of zoom capability is a bit of a challenge, in that if you want to frame a shot a particular way, you need to physically walk back and forth to get in just the right spot. It’s kind of an interesting constraint, though, and I can see spending some time playing with this. For now, here’s a playing-around shot of a weed next to the pond in our back yard.
This is scaled but not cropped. It might’ve been better to be a hair father to my right for this (to move the weed a little farther from the rocks, and closer to the fountain), but it was kind of an inconvenient place to stand as it was. And I’m not unhappy with this.
So, you know, I’m enjoying playing around. I’ll probably use this lens to do some science at some point, but I need to think about the best way to do that….
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I’m playing around with the various camera lenses I own, which include a rarely-used fixed 50mm focal length. This is “rarely used” because a good deal of what I use the camera for is taking pictures of the kids, and the separation needed to get them in frame with this lens is really difficult to maintain.
The cool thing about it is that it has a really large aperture, so you can get an extremely narrow depth of field, which makes for some cool focus effects. The lack of zoom capability is a bit of a challenge, in that if you want to frame a shot a particular way, you need to physically walk back and forth to get in just the right spot. It’s kind of an interesting constraint, though, and I can see spending some time playing with this. For now, here’s a playing-around shot of a weed next to the pond in our back yard.
This is scaled but not cropped. It might’ve been better to be a hair father to my right for this (to move the weed a little farther from the rocks, and closer to the fountain), but it was kind of an inconvenient place to stand as it was. And I’m not unhappy with this.
So, you know, I’m enjoying playing around. I’ll probably use this lens to do some science at some point, but I need to think about the best way to do that….
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