Out in High Park, Toronto this morning with my Sony a6100 and 7Artisans 10mm f/3.5 lens. I discovered that if I shoot wide open at the absolute closest focussing distance I get a background blur that I wouldn’t normally associate with a super-wide lens. I like the look.
Yes I like a red filter effect equivalent in post!
All images taken with my Sony 6100 and either a TTArtisans 23mm f/1.4 or 25mm f/2.4 lens.
This post may be titled “The Beginning of the End” but it is about the start of a project: black and white images of flowers / plants that are in various stages of decay, from the beginning of the end to (eventually) dead leaves in snow, as the year progresses.
I took these four images this morning on my Sony a6100 and 7Artisans 25mm f/1.8 lens.
I could not go on my Wednesday outing this week, as life got in the way, but later in the day I did get out to Winslow Park here in Toronto.
Both images taken with my Sony a6100 body and 7Artisans 10mm f/3.5 lens.
Back to the Beaches yesterday, and another flower picture but a different view. IT’s a sunflower, but not taken from the usual head on angle.
There is a new park in the Portlands in Toronto, and recently I went down erly in the morning to check it out. In the first image I was able to get a new angle on one of the new bridges. I reminds me of a retro-future look, like the Thunderbirds show from the 1960’s.
The second image catches the morning haze.
Both images taken with my Sony a6100.
Two more flower images taken this past weekend in Niagara-On-the-Lake here in Ontario. I love the colours!
Both images were made with my Sony a6100 body, and TTArtisan 35mm f/1.4; a lens that is getting a lot of use lately!
I have lived in Toronto since the early 1980’s and I have never really been inside the old city hall. That was rectified yesterday morning.
Across from Rogers Centre in Toronto is an old Train Turntable. It was just screaming “wide angle” at me! yesterday morning!
Recently I have gotten new lenses for my APS-C (Crop Sensor) Sony a6100 camera body from 7Artisans and TTArtisans. These lenses are compact and lightweight, and deliver much better performance than their cost might indicate.
Yesterday my TTArtisan 35mm f/1.4 lens arrived. Only a bit over $100 Canadian! I immediately took it out for a spin. And I was really impressed! The lens is sharp, but in a pleasing, classic way. None of the sterile, clinical sharpness that is sadly the hallmark of a lot of expensive modern lenses.
And the colour rendition! I tend to shoot mainly black and white, but the way colours pop in this lens will have me shooting more colour in the near future!
My Third Eye 