My body clock is fried (grilled?). And vacation is almost over. I was up until 10am this morning before I hit bed.
I’m gonna have to force myself to sleep in an hour or so.
On the other hand, I’ve almost finished organizing the photos for last year. Almost. There is still a big batch of photos from the Asakusa Samba parade that I have yet to look at.
Central Gate, Ueno Station
Aileen, a friend coming back from a holiday trip to Yamagata asked to be fetched from the Ueno station. The handle to her huge huge bag broke and she needed some help carrying it. I needed the exercise too, so I walked from Minowa Station to Ueno Station.
I borrowed Meema’s fisheye lens and took a few shots along the way and on the station. While waiting for Aileen at the ticket gate, I played around with long exposure shots. This is 2.5seconds at f/22.6, handheld.
There was a more interesting shot: a man was standing still amongst a blurred crowd of commuters. But I was too far from him (he was inside the gate) and the wide angle of the fisheye made him really small. Oh, well.
2009/01/01
Yes, I’m doing a Project365. For the first shot, I tried all the usual things : the moon, sunset, landscape, food, feet.
Then it hit me. This should be all about experimentation. This should be about getting out of my photographic comfort zone.
It’s not as polished a shot as I had wanted, but here it is: Flowers in my lens.
Those are the room lights being relected/refracted on a Sigma 170-500 5-6.3 APO Lens. I shot this with the cheapo 50mm1.8.