Agfapan APX 100:
11/19/2005
1. Stable gear – Shot with the 50mm Planar. Light wasn't good
inside the stable, so I was shooting wide open, roughly 1/15 to 1/30.
2. Ready to ride – Again, shot with the 50mm Planar either wide
open or at f/2.8 because of the lack of light inside the stable.
3. Saddling up – OK, I'll confess I don't know what the real
expression is. Again, the 50mm Planar wide open and again with a slow
shutter speed. The Planar is a nice lens – it even picked up the small
highlight in the horse's eye. Notice the cat ("Mittens") that I mentioned
Saturday. He's out of focus – shallow depth of field. I think I was off more
than I thought, because the post seems to be the thing that's in focus.
Rats.
4-5. Practice – I was trying to make a point or do something
different. I don't think it worked, but here are the results anyway. Shot
with the Planar, probably somewhere around f/4.0. The lightness you see at
the bottom of frame 5 is because the negative was curled. I'll rescan in a
few days once the negatives have flattened a bit.
6. Moms watching – They were really talking. I just stuck the
camera out and snapped. Zone focus with the 25mm Biogon at either f/8 or
f/11. Plenty of depth of field with a 25mm. And I was fairly certain I'd be
able to get both in the frame, although I didn't think I would get those
stables at the top of the hill.
7. Lesson over – Shot with the 25mm Biogon. Lots of depth of field
with this lens. Shot at f/8 or f/11.
8. Mittens and his shadow – This is a crop from the 25mm Biogon. It was from the
center right of the photo.
9. Mittens wants a ride – The 50mm Planar has handled a tough
situation nicely. I dialed down the contrast just a bit and even then the
highlights got blown. This is a shot that would do much better on a wet
print. I'm bumping into my scanner's DMax limit.
10. Friends – After the lesson, there's always time for
friendship. Note that my brother and I never did this with any of our
friends. Must be a female thing. I was walking behind them and knocked off
three shots with the 50mm Planar -- probably at f/8.
11. Winston – Moving around a lot while I was trying to shoot him
with the 50mm Planar. I think I was shooting wide open again.
12. The office – All newspaper offices look basically the same.
This is after everyone had gone home. I'll try this next week when people
are there. Got up on someone's desk and shot with the 25mm Biogon.
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