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Panasonic GF1 with 20mm F:1.7 at 5.6, 1/320 second.
I'd brought it in my thigh pocket.
This is an excellent lens, see all that detail.
Amazingly, the ghost is just the reflection of the yellow lamp in the window I'm shooting through! They must clean the hell out of that window, it's totally invisible.
All on auto, except I had to point the autofocus past the central lamp.
Also, for some odd reason this camera, on Program mode, tends to favour really big apertures, even when the shutter speeds are into the hundreds, dunno why. I think it had selected 2.4 and 1/800 sec or so. Silly. So I set it to aperture priority to get the depth of field. (Although actually with the smallish format and the wide-ish lens, even 2.8 would have sufficed, I think.)
This is an excellent lens, see all that detail.
Amazingly, the ghost is just the reflection of the yellow lamp in the window I'm shooting through! They must clean the hell out of that window, it's totally invisible.
All on auto, except I had to point the autofocus past the central lamp.
Also, for some odd reason this camera, on Program mode, tends to favour really big apertures, even when the shutter speeds are into the hundreds, dunno why. I think it had selected 2.4 and 1/800 sec or so. Silly. So I set it to aperture priority to get the depth of field. (Although actually with the smallish format and the wide-ish lens, even 2.8 would have sufficed, I think.)
VERY COOL!! Even cooler that the snow wasn't able to stay on top, so you can STILL see the sky, above! NICE!! :-)
ReplyDeleteYeah, I guess there's just too much heat generated from the shops, because the snow is still thick on the glass canopies outside our doors here.
ReplyDeleteThis is the best shot I've ever gotten of all that wood work in the roof there.
I love this image, your new toy produces really impressive results. And you haven't lost your eye, either. Congrats.
ReplyDeleteWhat's with the yellow ghost? A lens flare?
Thanks kindly. It was shot lazily while having my sandwich in Starfuckers, but I like the picture more and more.
ReplyDeleteAmazingly, the ghost is just the reflection of the yellow lamp in the *window* I'm shooting through! They must clean the hell out of that window, it's totally invisible.
All on auto, except I had to point the autofocus past the central lamp.
Also, for some odd reason this camera, on Program mode, tends to favour really big apertures, even when the shutter speeds are into the hundreds, dunno why. So I set it to aperture priority to get the depth of field. (Although actually with the smallish format and the wide-ish lens, even 2.8 would have sufficed, I think.)
... Does Starbucks always have lousy sandwiches, or is it just because this is the UK, and good sandwiches are illegal?
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ReplyDelete"Yeah, I guess there's just too much heat generated from the shops, because the snow is still thick on the glass canopies outside our doors here."
Right. I wonder how many canopies won't be able to withstand that kind of weight, during this time. :-(
"This is the best shot I've ever gotten of all that wood work in the roof there."
It's beautiful, isn't it. Seems almost a shame that it's "wasted"(?) on something so high up! Do you think *most* people even stop to appreciate it? Doubt it! :-(
Bert said...
"What's with the yellow ghost? A lens flare?"
LOL! I was thinking that it was just a row of lights behind the first; hence why the 2nd yeller one wasn't as bright! lol! Good observation, there, "Mr. Bert"! :-)
Eolake said...
"...Starfuckers..."
FUNNY YOU!! LOL!! :-)
"Does Starbucks always have lousy sandwiches, or is it just because this is the UK, and good sandwiches are illegal?"
You mean the DRY, "condiment-absent" (as in mayo at least?! SHEESH!) turkey/swiss on wheat; "chicken salad;" or ham & cheese?! NO! We don't have "CRAP" like that, "over here"! lol! ;-)
IF I am "desperate" enough, I go w/the pasta/chicken salad. It, at least, is moister than the dry-ass sammiches!! :-(
If I were around where you are (and there are some around there), I would head for a pub that could make you a YUMMY Hot Pastrami sammich! :-P
Ooooh... Pastrami.... now you're talking! :D
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Bert said...
ReplyDelete"Ooooh... Pastrami.... now you're talking! :D"
Exactly! I even managed to "talk" myself into going to get one of those at a local deli that I had never tried, before: FRESH French bread; FRESHLY sliced tomatoes; MAYO; mustard; lettuce; nice LEAN pastrami; provalone cheese; AND SPROUTS, even...together with "HOMEMADE" (made there) potato salad: ALL for a "whopping" $6.25!! I think that's about $2.00 more than those CRAPPY "Starfuckers" (ROFL! LOVE that, Eo!) "sammiches" but WELL WORTH IT!! And *my* "adventure" was also "sans camera" durn it! :-(
Oh...BTW: I screwed up on the last choice of sandwich options @ Starfuckers: a BLAND egg salad! :-(
Are those the options you guys have over there or...?
"Seems almost a shame that it's "wasted"(?) on something so high up! Do you think *most* people even stop to appreciate it?"
ReplyDeleteDoubtlessly less than one in twenty really see it, if that.
"You mean the DRY, "condiment-absent" "
Yup. Braindead.
And you're lucky if you get one tiny slice of tomaty or lettuce.
Yesterday I tried a new takeout place: again it turned out to be one which sent me burgers with *nothing* on except the bun and the burger. Ridic.
That deli sounds right.
ReplyDeleteDanish pop star Kim Larsen (of Gasolin' fame) had a band briefly named Starfuckers, for some reason.
Eolake said...
ReplyDelete"Doubtlessly less than one in twenty really see it, if that."
I think you're right. WAY SAD! :-(
"Yup. Braindead.
And you're lucky if you get one tiny slice of tomaty or lettuce."
Exactly! YUCK!!
"Yesterday I tried a new takeout place: again it turned out to be one which sent me burgers with *nothing* on except the bun and the burger. Ridic."
That *is* TOTALLY "ridic"!! I often wonder how the HELL these places can still be in business w/the CRAP they "deliver"!! :-(
I'm just realising that all the lamps over the hall are lit, even though it's the middle of the day. What a waste.
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