Parkade PCV
Today we see another shot from the parkade that Melinda Green Harvey and I got thrown out of.
That story, along with photos of this same corner of the garage, can be found in Parkade Madness.
That was one of our joint posts and she chose to post colour and I black and white.
So today, here is a colour version from me from a different point of view.
Descending
This is another photograph from when Melinda and I were made to leave this parkade which we were photographing.
The story of our eviction is told here
Anyone that hangs around this blog much will recognise the mural in the left distance which shows the light at Ogden Point breakwater – I have used that mural as a camera testing location quite a few times.
Testing Borrowed Lenses
This post from 52Rolls contains the other half of the roll of film I used to test the telephoto lenses. The lead image really turns my crank, but there are several others in this post that I like nearly as much.
This post leads with a self portrait of sorts – I went out on the Ogden Point breakwater with a visitor from Northern Ireland a couple of weeks ago and the top photo shows our shadows cast on the water surface with kelp fronds just below. It is one of my favourite shots taken in the past year or so. Other shots are from the breakwater and my garden. I have split the roll between 52 Rolls and my own blog and the others are publishing simultaneously at this link. That link also has some DSLR photos from one of the lenses.
This 23rd ‘roll’ brings photographs from a fresh roll of Kodak GB 200 that I used to test a couple of borrowed lenses on the Canon Elan 7N (aka EOS 33V in Europe). The lenses are an EF 70-200mm/f2.8 IS II USM and an EF 300mm/f4 IS USM.
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Long Lens Test
Today I have some images from tests of a couple of borrowed lenses that I put onto my Canon Elan 7N film camera as well as a Canon 5Dii digital. Other pictures from the film test are part of my 52Rolls project and published simultaneously to this one (here).
I borrowed a Canon EF 70-200mm/f2.8 IS II USM and an EF 300mm/f4 IS USM (no digital images included from this lens). The film was a fresh roll of Kodak GB 200. The digital photos are at ISO100, for the digital images, you will see EXIF data in the gallery below.
I have never used an image-stabilised (IS) lens on an SLR (or DSLR) before and am very impressed with their performance at lower shutter speeds. I found with the DSLR that I got reasonably sharp photos handheld at 1/20 and 80mm and better-than-nothing shots at 1/15th and 120mm (see below), normally I would hesitate to hand hold those focal lengths slower than about 1/250. The film quality let me down a bit, and a fairer test of the lenses with a film camera might be done with a less grainy film.
Overall, these lenses perform extremely well, they are very sharp, focus quickly, and focus quite close too. If only I could afford it, I would have both these in my kit. Since I can rent lenses like these locally it is really good to know just how well they work.
Tail End
A few weeks ago Melinda and I told the story of how we were run out of what turned out to be a private parkade while taking photos.
This is the photo I was taking when accosted.
It is my last shot from that parking garage.
I wish I had thought to shoot from the waist during the beration.
The very wide angle lens I had mounted probably could have caught an interesting shot.
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Looking Up V
A final view of the ceiling in the derelict house that I photographed with Melinda Green Harvey a month ago.
This shot is really the molding crescendo – the other shots have led up to this one with a bit more molding each time.
Do you suppose it is decorative, or functional?
It was in a what appears to have been a utility room at the back of the house
Are there wiring conduits hidden by narrow strips of cladding and molding over the seams.
Or is this someone’s fanciful ceiling art?
Looking Up IV
Another view of the ceiling in this derelict house that I photographed with Melinda Green Harvey a month ago.
When I took this photo it was my favourite taken in this house, though I have other favourites now I still like this one a lot.
I think there is a nest in this light fixture, and am pretty sure there was one in yesterday’s as well.
If so, anyone that has ever taken down one of these while perched on a ladder and spilling flies and other detritus in your eyes can imagine why these light fixtures were left in place. Even though all the other fixtures like covers for the electrical outlets and wall cladding were stripped in most rooms.
Others in this mini-series can be found here.
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