Det lite som att flyga runt med en drönare och fota, det ser ju faktiskt ut som en skog som man svävar över.
Första frosten
Igår var det dags för den första frosten för hösten, eller i alla fall den första som jag fotat i höst. Det är egentligen ganska fint ute i naturen, bra färger, friskt, ingen mygg och allmän lugn & ro. Synd bara att jag inte hinner med att vara ute mer.
Ännu en fotosession
Lördagen var skoj, ut i skogen för att fota barnbarnen. Som vanligt så hade de inga hämningar utan det blev en bra samling med foton av charmiga barn.
I was wrong, Sean Tucker was right
Yesterday, I started to read Sean Tucker’s Parable 6 which talks about different personas we take on. I came to the sentence.
Every London photographer knows Soho George, for example, and we all have shots of him somewhere in our back catalogue.
– Ha, I’m not a real London photographer, but I was in London last week, and I have no photos of this guy. I don’t even know who he is.
But he seemed to be an interesting character, so I did a search, and found quite a few pages about him. For example, this article. And when I took a closer look … I recognised him at once, it’s the man I noticed when I was walking around in SoHo, and since I liked his style I took a picture.
So, I need to change my mind, Sean was right, if you have been in London and taken some photos in the SoHo area, you probably have a photo of SoHo George.
Into the light
Nice
I’m not saying that the village where I live looks like this all the time, but occasionally, it does … and it’s quite nice when it does.
Albus
Let’s continue my ”photo posts” series with two portraits of Albus who is a German Shepard, which is pretty obvious to most people. Although big, he is a wonderful and very kind dog, who seems to be very fond of children … and cats … but the cats are not fond of him.
For those who speaks Swedish: jag antar att alla andra vet om detta men ”schäfer” betyder bokstavligen ”fåraherde” … det är mindre än ett år sedan jag lärde mig detta !!
Kime no kata
Jag insåg plötsligt att det är ganska sällan att jag lägger upp några av de bilder jag tar. De hamnar oftast på något annat konto, på nåt ställe där ingen hittar dem eller så laddar jag inte upp dem alls. Det vore nog bra om jag ändrade på detta, så jag börjar med en bild ur dem samling jag sitter och redigerar just nu.
Denna är en ögonblicksbild från en gradering till 5:e dan i ju-jutsu kai, det som du ser är en händelse i katan Kime No Kata som ska utföras just till 5:e dan (det är den enda katan i hela systemet numera).
Going wide
No, I’m not talking about my stomach … although it’s also widening … unfortunately … I’m talking about lenses. It appears that the older I get, the wider I go.
When I bought my first SLR as a teenager, I considered a 135 mm a wide lens and preferred a 200 mm or 400 mm. When I bought my first DSLR I used something like a 24-120 zoom for almost everything, later I’ve become fond of prime lenses, first a 90 mm, then 85 mm, then 50 mm, then 40 mm and the latest lens I bought was a 28 mm.
I don’t understand why this has happened, but I find it interesting that this happened. I still use my zoom lenses a lot, but I’m increasingly drawn to prime lenses. Currently, my favorites are the 85/1.8 + 28/2.8 for my Nikon, and the 40/2.8 on my Ricoh IIIx.
I wonder what I will be using in two-three years 🤔
My new wide-angle lens
Yesterday I got my new wide-angle lens, new and new … it’s an old second-hand lens (14-24/2.8) from [MPB](https://mpb.com), and it’s a giant piece of glass. Compared to my other lenses it’s ”silly big”, I’m starting to get a bit worried if I can fit it in my rucksack!!
Anyway, I went out today to test it and here is my first shot … and it’s going to take some time to get used to this lens. When I took this photo, I could almost touch the sign—I’m _not_ used to that.
I then tried to take some more ”open landscape” photos, and it’s really different from my other lenses. I was standing right beside a tree, not visible in the photo, and the branches from it were visible in the frame, so I took a step forward and made a second attempt … and the branches were still there. Not until I walked up to the tree you see, it’s almost within touching distance, I was able to get the branches out of the frame.
This photo is more the kind of photos I expect to take in the future. This one has an obvious flaw … the branches melts together with the background. But what really amazed me was that it felt like I had the camera below the tree … I still got the whole tree in the frame with room to spare.
The final photo was taken with me crouching down right beside the track and the snowmobile passing me just 20-40 cm away.
It was fun to take it out to see how it works, I really need to practice a lot, to learn how to best use this lens. It’s quite different from the other lenses I have for this camera.