The Official Head-Case Photography Thread.

[jpelg]

15 hours ago, blessingx said:

I really wish there was a new Leica WATE/MATE-ish lens made by someone. 

^This!

[Knuckledragger]

Counterpoint to my paean of primes: Modern zooms can be really good.  Last fall I bought a stack of lenses from an MV photographer who had gone mirrorless.

The least interesting but most useful of the bunch was the 24-70mm F/2.8L II.  It's the perfect "walk around" focal range and a vast improvement of the original model (which was more than a bit of a dog.)  Also pictured is the 100-400mm  F/4.5-5.6L IS II which is an impressive and massive beast, but also a great way to blow copious amount of dust into one's camera body.  I took all of the following with the 24-70.

It's been so long since I've posted photos in this thread that we're going all the way back to last Christmas.  I'll win no awards for framing on this one (especially on a stationary object) but in spite of my snapshotesque abilities with the viewfinder, I really like the the look of this shot.

 

30 seconds at F/22, ISO200.  I really needed to do shots significantly longer than 30 seconds, and I was too stubborn to raise the ISO.  At this point I had not been able to locate my remote cable.  Blissfully, the remote I bought for my 30D in 2006 works with the 5D IV.  This coming Christmas I can do multi-minute exposures.

 

This is the house my father grew up in.  It has a big Cyrano De Bergerac portico that juts out into an already narrow sidewalk.  For something like 150 years it has served as an inconvenience to all passers-by.  I love it.  Cool Story Bro: My grandparents were the last private family to live in the house.  After they moved out in 1940s, it became a law office and of course it's been a retail shop for decades at this point.

 

Right next to the Vineyard Haven ferry slip.  Not pictured: the December wind ripping across the harbor and through my jacket.

 

I will cheerfully take the same picture over and over again, in different weather an lighting conditions.

 

Happy sledders enjoying the first snow of the season.

 

Later afternoon sun on Sweetened Water Farm.

 

There's that patch of woods again.

 

The calm before the blizzard.

 

The aftermath.

 

Ideal lighting conditions at the Oak Bluffs harbor.

 

Still shooting that 1980s car commercial.

 

All good things must come to an end.