Here are more images from my afternoon hanging out in an alley in Marina del Rey. I’m using “shorty”, my trusty Fujifilm X100 with tele-converter lens.
Tag: Digital Photography
Reflections
Marina del Rey Afternoon
Fun with TCL
It’s a Tele Converter Lens a friend of mine turned me on to that changes the focal length of my Shorty’s (Fujifilm X100) 20mm, to a 50mm lens. The magnification is 1.4X without much chromatic aberrations, but does produce pincushion distortion. With a good image editor, you can easily correct those anomalies.
In this instance, I took it out at night around the neighborhood. The added weight helped in balancing the camera and made it easier to shore up when snapping at long shutter times. Plus, I had a little fun with filters, too.
From the shoebox
Experiments in Photo Editing
Sunshine on the seashore
Where is everyone?
Venice Beach Afternoon
Hey! FUN WITH FILTERS!
I took a walk along the boardwalk on a bright sunny afternoon in Venice, California. I had the beast with me along with a 24~85 f/2.8 Zoom lens. Considering all the madness going on in the news, I needed time away to recharge my coping mechanism. It looked like everyone here at the beach felt the same way, too.
Life is a beach
A day at the beach
Sunny days and foggy nights
Took to the streets with my little X100 on a day full of surprises. It was gorgeous outside, blue skies, clean air, a perfect day for a walk. But in the distance, I could see a wall of fog slowly roll in. I do love sunny days, and I do love foggy nights.
Sadly, this place was closed. I was hoping for coffee and waffles. But not today.
The café was closed as well. So I decided to head home and make tea.
Spring is in the air
Raindrops keep falling on my head
Finding Bliss
Took the long way home
Santa Monica in January
New Year like last year
Night time in Santa Monica
Cold night in Santa Monica
Pico Blvd at night
I took a walk around the neighborhood with my Fujifilm X100. My settings were f/4 @ 1/15 with the ISO selected to 3200. I used whatever was stable to hold the camera still when taking these snaps. On hindsight, because I was stabilizing the camera using either a lamp post or parking meters, I could’ve lowered the ISO. Next time, then.
Santa Monica Twilight
I do love sunsets. But the best time to hang out in Santa Monica is during twilight. I shot with my beast and a 50mm f/1.4 prime. I set the ISO at 1600 using two aperture settings–2.0 and 5.6. I used whatever was stable to rest the camera for long exposures with f/5.6. Then with an f/2.0 aperture and setting my shutter to 1/60, I braced my elbows for hand-held shots.