A day on 74A

Well, I got this bright idea to go and take some pics go motorcycles...dunno why, it jus felt like a fun thing to do. The Runtyun said she would come too. So what did I have to loose. Here are the best of what I took. There will be a learning curve. But I think I have the basics.

Let me know what you think.

olc

The last two were taken at Hickory Nut Gap Farms. I really want to know which one is the better of the them.

Thanks, olc

Dad at the Blue Sky Cafe

I took this on my Fathers 88th birthday.

I love you Dad!


olc

The Princess getting her fingers done

Recently we had a celebration for my mother and Father. It was a great todo requiring much planning. My Runtyun, the Princess, had to look just right. This was the first step. There were a few more, though I felt she was beautiful just the way she was!

Thanks Princess Ellie!

So, the set of 3 extensions has 3 different lengths, a 13mm, 21mm and 31mm They do stuff to make the image bigger, or they allow me to put the subject closer to the lens for more detailed resolution. I spent all night on my birthday taking pictures of a cute bear candle using various lenses and F-stops and shutter speeds. Being methodical, I shot with my 50mm lens, then the 18-55 at three different mm. 18mm, 35mm and 55m. Finally, I used the 55mm-250mm at 55mm, 130mm and 250mm. With all three lenses I started at the largest aperture, or opening and stopped down to the smallest. By doing this I was working with delta of field, or the range in which the subject was in focus. In some cases, only a portion of the bear’s face was in focus, while in others the whole bear was not only in view but in focus.

In the background, I put some Christmas tree lights to see how the different apertures received the light, thus affecting the shape of the representation of the bulbs. It turns out that the narrower the Depth of Field was, the more depth of field was revealed in the xmas lights. The aperture also affected the shape of the bulb, sometimes it was perfectly round, while other times the bulbs were six sided. All of these things were expected, I just wanted to do the experiment and prove it for myself. Some of the pictures are really nice, though the biggest lesson I learned was that in order to use the long lens, I’ll need to get much further way from my subject than my kitchen table allows.

So feast your eyes on the pictures and let me know what yo think!

THANKS! olc

BTW, I did no Post Production on any of the images.