Petzval Week
Season 3, episode 1: Going to work with the Petzval
FG week: recap
Two of these were shot at a roadside picnic area on the way back from Kerrville with the 50mm f/1.8 E Series. Two were shot with the new-to-me 75-150mm E Series. And the last… well I’m not sure what I shot that with. It depends, really, on where I shot it. I think I shot it on a neighborhood walk with my darling, adorable wife. If so, it was probably the 75-150 too. But if not, then it was at that picnic area with the 50.
Allahu Alim.
I hope you enjoyed the FG week!
FG week, day 5: watch for pedestrians
or don’t.
To be honest, I’ve grown a bit tired of pun-type street photography, but I recognize the impulse to shoot contradictory signage and whatnot.
Ah, the sweet taste of internal contradiction. Continue reading “FG week, day 5: watch for pedestrians”
My wife, studying
SubhanAllah.
FG week, day 4
I think the blur on the right side of the frame is due to film curl, and not to the lens…
I think this was shot with a new copy of the Nikon 75-150 E-Series that I picked up for a song around the time I bought the FG. It, like the camera, is an absolute beauty, in much better condition than the one I paid double for and that later became the beloved Zomb-E.
More on it later, maybe.
FG week, day 3
Natural grain is to simulated grain/digital noise as nature is to manmade. Continue reading “FG week, day 3”
FG week, day 2
The office park at sunrise… sunrise makes everything beautiful.
Or maybe it’s photography itself. This was one of Sontag’s critiques, if I recall…
“…the camera’s ability to transform reality into something beautiful derives from its relative weakness as a means of conveying truth.”
— James Cockroft (@jam_esc) January 1, 2015
And I do, thanks to the bibliographic function I’ve attached to twitter. Continue reading “FG week, day 2”
