Some Random Pictures
In the absence of something meaningful to say (some would argue I am in this state perpetually) here are some photos from around here. They were all taken on my shiny new DSLR (yay!).
Here we start with an nice photo of a cup.
Still life anyone? (18-55mm@38mm, 1/50, f5.0, ISO400. Saturation)
Shafts of Light (18-55mm@55mm, 1/13, f5.6, ISO100. Tones, saturation. Centennial Park, 06/06/07.)
The Change (18-55mm@24mm, 1/50, f7.1, ISO800. Tones, saturation. Centennial Park, 06/06/07. I was trying to capture two things with this. Firstly, the sense of slow but constant change inherent in seasonal movements, and secondly, the introspective beauty of autumn. When I saw the bench sitting under this tree I felt it was the link that expressed both of those things - To sit and watch the wind and trees play, to sit and contemplate the beauty of the change, these are childhood dreams)
Buses 3 (18-55mm@54mm, 1/25, f18, ISO100. Saturation)
Foley Street (18-55mm@18mm, 1/160, f3.5, ISO100. Sepia)
Drops (18-55mm@38mm, 1/100, f5, ISO1600. We've had some pretty spectacular and devastating storms here for about a week. The Hunter Valley (just north of Sydney) in particular has been subjected to some wild weather. Sitting on my balcony, these are the only drops of it that I caught).
Wet-footed Abandon (18-55mm@18mm, 1/8, f4, ISO400. Curves. 7am, 10/06/07, Palmer St., Darlinghurst. The rain finally stopped on Saturday, and Sunday morning I went to meet Pip for a coffee and a chorizo roll. On the way I met this couple - leather shoes and fluffy slippers. Somehow they had found each other amid the deluge, their masters perhaps leaving them for more free-footed fields).
Reading Corner. (18-55mm@25mm, 0.5, f7.1, ISO200. Saturation)
That's it for now.
3 comments:
Enjoyed the pictures - that's all I usually put on my page...
Liked the shafts of light - reminds me of our short visit to Australia a couple years ago. So what kind of camera did you get? We've gotten a new one but it's not a SLR. (i wish)
If you ever want to look at some of our shots, it's
jettisonedanchor.blogspot.com/
Thanks Jetti. My shiny new camera is a Canon EOS 400D (which I believe is called a XTi Digital Rebel in the USA). 10MP, RAW or JPEF format file storage, and best of all full SLR (I only ever use it on manual but it also has the usual auto functions).
With it I bought an 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 lens and a 75-300mm f4-5.6 lens. I'm hoping to sell both lenses and consolidate to a 28-105mm f3.5-4.5 lens before I go to Europe (oh for an L series... I wish).
It's a pretty neat camera. Takes good photos without much noise on the lower ISO settings. My only criticisms are (1) that the kit lens (18-55mm) is pretty poor in terms of image quality, and (2) that the view finder doesn't quite show all of the image you are about to capture (about 95% I'd say).
I'd highly recommend it with something other than the kit lens.
P.S. Thanks for the link. Some fabulous pictures there. Colorado looks stunningly beautiful.
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