I feel I'm in somewhat of a rut, photography wise. I've been taking almost entirely candid portraits for the last several shoots. Don't get me wrong, I love candids, and I think I've gotten some great shots, but I'm starting to get a bit bored.
For Tahoe I rented the Canon 70-200 f4L IS. I previously rented the f2.8, but it was really really heavy, so I thought I'd see how I liked the lighter version. It's a great lens for portraits outdoors or in good light, and it is much lighter. Of all the lenses I've rented so far, this is the one I'm closest to buying. But I really can't justify it yet. Ah, the perpetual struggle.
I also got to take a bunch of shot's on Ethan's new camera with his Sigma 30mm f1.4. Not only that, I got to take pictures of the illustrious Mr. Danny! It was really good to see him again, as it had been way way too long. All the photos from that night were taken at ISO 1600 in low light. They are certainly somewhat noisy, but I still maintain that shooting at 1600 is better than getting blurry photos. I think Ethan's sensor might also be slightly lower noise than mine. I've also been toying with the idea of getting a new body, but that I really can't justify.
Continuing a theme of "Ethan's fault," I'm also trying a new challenge: one photo a week. I'd previously tried to do 100 days of photos, but failed at that. One per week sounds much more achievable. Still, I've not been doing a good job. I did a couple today to try to cover for the last few weeks, but really two every two weeks is not the same.
I'm also thinking I should install some new gallery software that other people can upload to. I'm not ready to replace bins for my main gallery, but I'd like to experiment a bit. I might make my one a week challenge photos use something else. And maybe then I'd throw up more random pictures for the blog. We'll see. I still need to upgrade my mailserver, and I've been putting that off for a long time too, so who knows if I'll get to new gallery software any time soon.
Next week I'll be on vacation in Colorado. I'm excited to go for some landscapes again.
posted: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:18 | permanent link to this entry
