Distracted Part II - another new lens

David, caught unawares at his place on Sunday, taken with the new 7-200mm f/2.8 lens. Nice glass. V. happy with the new lens.



All in all, a good weekend up in Sydney.

distracted...

Been busy of late, playing with my new tilt-shift lens, still experimenting - here I shifted the focus plane from parallel to the sensor plane, to about 80 degrees off parallel.



Tried my hand at lens shifting too - this will come in handy if ever they build any attractive buildings here in Canberra. Good thing I'm heading off to Melbourne soon.



No lens shift. Building shortened and verticals distorted...



...And lens shifted to reduce the converging lines (well, as much as could be done)...Photos taken at the same spot.

nice graphics

Too busy ATM for anything other than this clip - I love animation (of all sorts):



from shirleyheezgay

Loving this new camera

By day this building is huge and totally out of scale with everything around it, but at night, I love how the lights seem to disappear into infinity. Or at least the back walls.

I am over this effing wind

Normally, I like all types of weather - nice crisp winter days with brilliant blue skies, warm late summer evenings (eating outdoors, of course) etc etc. You know the stuff. I can even tolerate those sticky summer nights (more or less).

But we've had four days of gusty westerly and southerly winds here in Canberra. And I hate it. I just don't like windy days.

The dust everywhere, in your eyes and face. In my camera.

How the wind really knocks the poor plants around.

The noise.

How it dries everything out - especially my lips. Hate that !!

The worst thing about windy days ? You got to rug up against the wind, but when it briefly stops, all of a sudden it gets warm and you're suddenly overdressed. And sweating. Arggggggh I hate that !! I want to enjoy this warmth and I can't ! Arggggh !!

Riding the bike is a real bugger too - you end up having to ride on a lean to keep it going straight ahead and you're constantly compensating for the wind's vagaries.

Argggggh!!

Huey*, enough with the wind already !!



And still the trees are bare, although they're getting the first flushes of spring. Here's what it looks like from home at the moment, looking towards town, Saturday arvo.

The clouds are scudding across the sky at a zillion miles an hour.




*Huey - Australian weather god, normally the bringer of storms and big surf