A Question of Depth

RickH — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:18:55 +0000

I bought myself a new camera lens the day before yesterday. It’s a lens I’ve been drooling over; wanting to own for at least as long as I’ve known about its existence over a year ago. I finally bit the bullet, so to speak, and bought it.

The lens is a Canon 85 mm f1.2 L-series USM II.

The reason I wanted it is the ability to shoot in incredibly low light with natural light — my preferred mode — and get an incredibly shallow depth of field.

The fountain here was photographed on the patio of a restaurant, at night, without any additional lighting. The span between water spouts is approximately 2 inches. Notice also the blurring of the highlights on the water.

Beautiful!

Can’t wait to try it on people!

Tilt-Shiftin’ Away

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The Dolphins Leap Tonight

RickH — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:02:16 +0000

A we got wet, a we got wet.
A we got wet, a we got wet.

In the fountain, the spouting fountain,
The dolphins leap tonight.

There’s no fooling some people. This image was one of the very first night images I attempted after buying photographer Bob Marcotte’s Canon 5D. I laid down on the ground, shooting upwards, to catch the moon in a vain hope that I’d later fool Bunny Chafowitz into thinking that I’d managed to photograph dolphins leaping out of the water over my head. When I showed it to her, she was not impressed. Not even a little bit.

“You cut off most of the fountain,” she said.

So Shoot Me! » fountain

A Question of Depth

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