Thanks to everyone for this daily challenge series. It has been just what I needed to get me back outside with the camera on a regular basis as I am finally coming back from 8 months of fighting some heart issues.
I am not sure about my lens choice. I chose the 85mm MF because I had just bought it not long before everything began to go south, and I had not really used it other than one or two quick tryouts. I like the lens and seem to be doing okay manually focusing it. But, for me, 85mm is way too long for any kind of walk-around lens. On the other hand, it is good at forcing me to be a bit more creative with some of my angles and framing – sometimes doing what I might have done with a crop.
One thing that is definite is that it has been a good exercise to work the whole time with one prime. I often find myself grabbing a zoom of some kind for convenience. Doing this is a good lesson in discipline. If I do this again next month – that's doctor dependent – I will stay with a prime, but I will slide all the way down to the plastic 35mm. If nothing else, it will be a lot lighter to carry around.
Originally posted by Riggomatic @AggieDad I wish you a speedy recovery!
The controller looks like an arduino variation, with the pin outs that are visible.
@ Riggomatic: Thanks for your kind thought. I am doing well, but I am just a bit frustrated with the no-drive leash I wear.
You have a good eye. The controller is a "Seeeduino Nano," a clone of the Arduino Nano. I have used them to control both my home-built panorama head and my home-built focus-stacker rail.
Originally posted by Mikey Floyd To AggieDad, I wanted to comment on your photo for the 17th.
You didn't exactly talk it up in the daily image thread, however I really like it - a lot. The lines, shapes and textures. The slightly grungy feel, the toppled witches hat. If you hadn't mentioned what the scene was, I would not have guessed. Your image poses questions. I think it's great.
@Mikey Floyd: Thanks for your comments. It turned out okay, but I wasn't sure. It was not a good shoot. No one was at the skateboard park, so I was left with trying to get shots of shapes and patterns and such. But it was midday and the sun was straight up, so there were no shadows to give any modeling to anything. This was the last photo I took. I grabbed as I was walking back to the car.
I have been watching your work and I think we seem to share a similar eye for things and we both seem to enjoy B&W images. I know I most definitely would have taken shots of the fridge. First, because it is a bookshelf, and second, because it a refrigerator outside. I love things that have strange (or wrong) juxtapositions. I invite you (and anyone else) to take a peek at my site
PhotoMono which is exclusively monochrome images.