it was nice, but now my eyes hurt from staring into the sun too much. is that bad? anyways, i'm a little tired an -- nevermind. black cloud collective - hail mary is pumping me up sufficiently to do this. soooo. went to richmond for a little while today, then went to cypress. cutting to the chase: richmond first.
and first thing, otw there, i saw a bald eagle and was like yo stop the car and my dad was like aiiite son.
i can't believe i just implied my dad is in any way cool or in touch with modern society.
i can't believe how stereotypically teenager that sounds.
i can't believe i can't think of anything else i don't believe in.
i can't believe jesus went 33 year years and never jacked off once.
OR SO WE THINK....
anyways.
the other day, i finished my takumar trio with the addition of the 135/3.5. i like it.
here it is stopped down, the full shot:
and a 100% crop of the above:
not bad at all for a lens who's coming up on its 40th year birthday this year.
and another shot from the 135, this time wide open. it's right at that borderline between sharp and dreamy looking; either way, it performs pretty well. sometimes the bokeh gets a little meh, but if you don't give it tons of branches and brambles it can be pretty smooth
also, there were some bloody glorious clouds out there today, a theme which stuck all day long.
this is a 6-(vertical) shot panorama with the s-tak 50/1.4 (i probably should have whipped out the 28/3.5, which ended up never coming out of the bag today despite being discovered to be my favorite focal length on aps-c):
and a cloud detail with the 135:
and that concludes the richmond part of the ride. this was basically just to kill time while waiting for my dad's car to be tuned/checked up. and now begins the epicness: cypress. to be honest after editing and shit i'm a bit tired of looking at them since most of them are just different takes at the essentially same thing: trees, clouds, sun, maybe some ocean. still, they're awesome photos that i'm proud of, starting with this which i took from the car on the second narrows bridge:
i took this (walked a bit out of the way behind some store or rental shop thing) thinking it'd be gone soon - the light/clouds drifting over the trees. little did i know this'd be the background of nearly every other shot today.
another with the 135, wide open. viewed at 100%, it's sharp but not impressively so. good enough for me, though, and has a nice dreaminess to make up for it (as opposed to just looking like it lacks detail). the background gets a little bit distracting here, but i probably wouldn't notice if i didn't read so much on flickr about the (supposedly) shitty bokeh of this lens.
this one with the super-tak 50/1.4 - it was pretty cool, the sun peaked out for a second and spotlit that closer tree. within a few seconds the insanely fast clouds covered it up and the spotlight was gone (well i was a bit slow in this so it's already half-gone in this shot)
holeee tree! with the st50/1.4. i'm not a fan of the OOF CAs here but meh
exercising some textbook compositional things here, what with the diagonals and shapes and all
more sexy spotlighting
i can't decide which version i like better:
the more fill lighted one is better technically and doesn't leave the foreground so depressing/dark/w/e, but it also loses some of the intensity by being brighter...idk.
this one i took just cause the colour gradient in the water was amazingly cool - the clouds blocked the sun in the bluer parts
dancing coloursss
i quite like this photo. it started snowhailing on us just as i finished taking this shot - 8 seconds, st50/1.4 at f11 with a polarizer attached (didn't really do much, i just wanted it on for a bit longer exposure.) this photo made atreyu - storm to pass stuck in my head for a while. shit that's a good song...
anyways, some notes while using my completed takumar trio (though the 28/3.5, as i said, never actually came into play. i think it's cause in the mountains, everything's further away - the 50, despite being longer than normal on aps-c, did feel like a normal lens in usage cause it reflected what i was seeing. on the other hand, so did the 135 sometimes so maybe it's just a matter of me getting used to and programmed for my primes' focal lengths, which is pretty cool). there's a surprising amount of CA sometimes which is kinda annoying (mostly fixable, but still) though it COULD just be my focus is ever so slightly off and they're OOF CAs, which is more my fault than the lens'. and on my focussing screen - esp the microprism collar, the 135/3.5 doesn't seem to be totally in focus at infinity, not sure if that's a problem or not....stopped down the DoF makes for a negligible difference anyways, but it still means i'm not getting as much as i can out of my lens. and that irks me. on the other hand, lens surgery looks pretty fucking tough.
on the good side, both of them are incredibly sharp stopped down (well i never had a good excuse to use the 50 wide open and i've talked about the 135 wide open a few times already). and, in practice, the orange-tendrily thing from the 50 doesn't come into play that much (though on the other hand it never faced the bare sun, just the sun through clouds).
i'm sleepy and losing momentum in writing now so i'll leave it at that ^__^
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