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Weekly challenge Black and white street photography Oct. 8 to 15
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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 365775" data-attributes="member: 16749"><p>This theme had me thinking in terms of very old-style photographs, black and white, grainy, soft focus, not a lot of sharpness or technical quality. With the aperture wide open, my ancient <a href="http://nikonites.com/education/25527-aperture-depth_of_field-relationship-vivitar-85-205mm-f3-8-tele-zoom.html" target="_blank">Vivitar 85-205mm zoom lens</a> is perfect for that. At smaller apertures, it takes nice, sharp pictures, but at larger apertures, it yields an interesting combination of distortions and soft focus that was exactly what I had in mind for this picture.</p><p></p><p> With that in mind, I mounted the Vivitar to my D3200, and wandered out to the street, to take some pictures. Some pictures I took with the lens zoomed all the way to 205mm, and others I took zoomed all the way the back to 85mm; alas, I do not remember which pictures I took with which zoom setting, so I don't know which way I was zoomed when I took this picture.</p><p></p><p> I did have the lens wide open to ƒ3.8 the whole time, and the shutter at 1/4000 of a second, varying only the ISO setting, as needed, to get a reasonable exposure—ISO 1600 in this case.</p><p></p><p> I'm rather pleased with the result, and even with the suggested anachronism—a quality that suggests to me a photograph taken, perhaps, in the 1910s or 1920s, but with automobiles, signs, traffic lights, and other elements that are obviously much more modern.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]117729[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 365775, member: 16749"] This theme had me thinking in terms of very old-style photographs, black and white, grainy, soft focus, not a lot of sharpness or technical quality. With the aperture wide open, my ancient [URL="http://nikonites.com/education/25527-aperture-depth_of_field-relationship-vivitar-85-205mm-f3-8-tele-zoom.html"]Vivitar 85-205mm zoom lens[/URL] is perfect for that. At smaller apertures, it takes nice, sharp pictures, but at larger apertures, it yields an interesting combination of distortions and soft focus that was exactly what I had in mind for this picture. With that in mind, I mounted the Vivitar to my D3200, and wandered out to the street, to take some pictures. Some pictures I took with the lens zoomed all the way to 205mm, and others I took zoomed all the way the back to 85mm; alas, I do not remember which pictures I took with which zoom setting, so I don't know which way I was zoomed when I took this picture. I did have the lens wide open to ƒ3.8 the whole time, and the shutter at 1/4000 of a second, varying only the ISO setting, as needed, to get a reasonable exposure—ISO 1600 in this case. I'm rather pleased with the result, and even with the suggested anachronism—a quality that suggests to me a photograph taken, perhaps, in the 1910s or 1920s, but with automobiles, signs, traffic lights, and other elements that are obviously much more modern. [ATTACH=CONFIG]117729._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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