At The Table In My Sunroom: New Lens

Sunday, February 28, 2010

New Lens

My daughter has helped understand the source of those luminous still life photos one sees in magazines and some blogs: a portrait lens. I couldn't resist - I bought one. The play of light on texture and color is irresistible to me. It draws me in an unspeakable way, as if I were a helpless moth.

One of my favorite coffee mugs. I've not quite gotten the hang of this lense yet; please bear with me. I will be posting lots of photos as I go along.

My son made this dish in pottery class in high school.

What is your favorite lens?

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stevenFebruary 28, 2010 at 9:32 AM
hi jennifer! honestly, my favourite lens is the blurry morning eyes i experience more and more as i get older. everything looks soft and kind!!! i really like what you're getting from your new lens though and i'm wondering what you got?! steven
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JenniferFebruary 28, 2010 at 9:52 AM
Hi Steven. I have a Pentax camera, so I got a Pentax 50mm f/1.4. The super wide aperture allows low light photos with an extremely shallow depth of field.
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MeriFebruary 28, 2010 at 11:15 PM
My favorite lens right now is the one whose lens ring isn't damaged. It's been a tough couple of months for me and cameras.
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DelwynMarch 3, 2010 at 1:28 AM
Hi Jennifer

I love the dish your son made. My camera is not SRL so I have no choice...I decided to go with the fixed lens for the time being and it has worked well but I do love what you can do. Isn't it wonderful to have savy children. My new mac is a blessing and having the kids with me teaching me all the tricks is so great...I would never find my way around it otherwise.

Happy days
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AnonymousMarch 3, 2010 at 8:50 AM
You've made a good job of these photos, I like playing about with my camera, a bit snap happy if you like.

CJ xx
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Eleonora BaldwinMarch 31, 2010 at 4:46 PM
A nice new and buttery lens, yes! It's the best: 50mm 1.4 it makes everything beautiful (except the mug, that was beautiful already).

Ciao amica
Lola xx
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Thanks for visiting. I love having you at my table with me.

A time has come in my life to reach into another place, to reach into a cobwebbed and stiff part of my brain - the creative part. And then, maybe to take what I find to hold it out to share. You see, I have never been creative (and am still not, you might say); I have experienced the world analytically. I now see there is so much more to the world than that.

This started with an idea to write a photo-journal to myself. In that journal, I would write and take photos of details to CONTEMPLATE the numerous sparkles of life I have around me, and CAPTURE them to last. So here I am, come join me....

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

"The Road Less Travelled" by Robert Frost

Sunday, February 28, 2010

New Lens

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