they say "all you need is a fast 50mm prime"

[joshua0]

I went to Carnival! And I took some pictures, too.

This time, I tried to get better at taking pictures of people, but I took some pictures of things, too.

Comments

[masqueradestar]

Love this one, and also this one of Jack because his eyes so perfectly match his hair, and his expression is great.

[joshua0]

Thanks! I also really enjoyed that one -- I wasn't sure how well the colors were going to turn out, and I'm glad that they came out as vibrant as they were in real life.

[gregh1983]

Excellent work, as usual! I really like that night shot of Midway.

[joshua0]

Thanks! The night shot of Midway is another take on a similar image from last year.

[hvincent.livejournal.com]

a++ depth of field

[joshua0]

Yeah, I was super pleased with how a bunch of those came out after the fact. That camera doesn't really get along well with f/1.8 glass (focus times can be upwards of a second and a half, maybe even two seconds, and it often picks the wrong thing), which meant that a bunch of those images had beautifully in-focus noses, and not-so-well-focused eyes. But, it seems like enough of them came out, in the end...

By the way, if you had doubts about this system, the lenses are really starting to mature. One of the more surprising results for me was this image (warning: huge version linked). The resolution into the corners is pretty good (take a look at the bricks on Hamerschlag, for instance), but the thing that surprised me is that that result was achieved even with the thing wide open.

Oh, and you'll be happy to know that the shiny black buggy is a PiKA buggy. Sadly, they didn't seem terribly angry, even with the long lens set to maximally long.

[lindseykuper]

These are great. Sully is basically Calvin, with his open mouth and every-which-way hair.

[joshua0]

Yeah, I can see that!

I would even extend your comment, though, to not just be specific to that picture. He sure can be.

[lindseykuper]

Yeah, I guess what I meant is, there is a certain Calvin-ness that's intrinsic to him that your pictures do a good job of bringing out.