so right now i'm raging, but that's okay, and not what i'm going to talk about (yet). what i AM gonna talk about is how stanley par sunset yesterday was absolutely orgasmic. there's....really not much more to add onto that, besides, well, the pics.
hah, teased. no sunset here, bish. but anyways, this was a pretty cool shot from yesterday anyways, it was shot not with my macro lens, but my 50, reversed (i'm starting to really love this lens). while it wasn't too hard to use, you have to focus it first (ie move back and forth) and then stop it down. since it takes about 10 clicks to get to f-11 where there's just about enough DoF, it takes a bit to stop down and in that time i don't really stay still, so it might've moved out of focus. so i still prefer using a macro lens overall, though if i ever have to go super light with only 1 or 2 lenses, reversing seems to work pretty well. what always amazes me about macro is there's so much more detail than meets the eye - i saw a semi-alien looking plant with waterdroplets; only after the shot did i notice that there were not 1, but 3 tiny insects (2 of which are out of focus, but i never noticed them in the first place) in this shot.
anyways, to the glorious sunset.
teased again. though i guess this does have more sunset in it than the above macro. i thought this shot was pretty awesome imo (and @ the burned-out blacks - no camera sensor can handle the DR in this scene. even to the naked eye it was almost burned out anyways); i was trying to be more composition-oriented this photowalk and i think this reflects that, somewhat. gulls of the apocalypse?
anyways, no more teasing. prepare for about 10 shots of more or less the exact same thing. i took over 150 shots this walk and came back with about 40 because i basically camerajizzed and shot the same thing about 30x each.
you should notice a significant difference between these two shots. one's a bit more to the left. and there's a bird in one. and about 5 seconds in between them.
these two are much more different. by about 5 minutes. also, i absolutely love this lens's (15) flare pattern/resistance
in person, this was every bit as spectacular as it looked like. in particular, though it wasn't the main spectacle, that gradient of blue was really cool - near the sun, it was a pale blue like you'd see in the afternoon or something, slowly becoming yellow/orange, but the higher you turned your head, the darker blue it was. soooo cool. after that sunset, it was a pretty run-of-the-mill photowalk, nothing particularly spectacular...
just a swan or two.
and we saw a heron, but they're not exactly rare in vancouver. and i didn't really get to get that close for good shots anyways..only about 3 feet or so.
those cats (bird) was fast as lightning (1/13 of a second)
being more open-minded about composition in action. and cloning out branches. i dunno what to think about the hexagonal background lights - on the one hand, i hate it and wished there were more aperture blades to make it more round and smooth. on the other hand, in all other aspects, i love this lens (the 50), so i'm undecided.
and being a bit artsyish:
these two are a bit redundant but both have their merits - one's more of a dying sun thing, the other's more of a approaching night thing. sounds synonymous, but if you get what i'm saying, it's totes not. at least not in these two shots.
the sun's had its fun
and now it's time to run.
of this set, i'm pretty proud that i didn't have to do much in way of photoshopping for the artsy ones, and instead got pretty much everything right in-camera - composition, etc. overall, an (obviously) great photowalk.
that said, holy shit. the night before i'm about to shoot with a pro photographer at the aquarium, and my (fake chinese) flash (that i told my dad not to buy) stops working on me. and apparently, it's not unheard of with this flash (the real version anyways - mine is the fake ripoff nobody's heard of). and, ofc, being bought from hk, there's no refunds and no warranty. fuckitymcfuckerson. time to bring out the adhesive (tape) and DIY diffuser (translucent camera body cap, or tissues.
on that lovely note, here's an HDR pano (two (okay technically 6) frame pano, with 3 frames for each..frame. to be HDR'd). this was a while before the actual sunset, which is why the colours are more washed out here than in the earlier ones. though it does look a bit less saturated on photobucket than the original file...and more purply. strange. whatever:
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