My Hometown Is Coming In Sight

Went to the 4th of July parade in the town I am from.

Have some pictures, yo! 

 

And Bring Him To The Ground

This afternoon I went to an orchard for...Reasons.

Things got interesting when I realized that my D3500 only had something like 15% battery life left and my Nikon FE only had a single roll of film. By interesting, I mean fantastic.  I find limits to be amazing for getting careful pictures.

Here are some of the highlights from the D3500:

 As for the film, I had my Nikon FE with the Nikkor 50mm lens.  Here are some of the highlights from the roll of film:

By "highlights" I mean every picture that doesn't have people in them, because there isn't a single dud on this roll. I really like this camera.  As for the developing, I took care of that myself. No more sending them out!

• Current Location: Home, Home again.
• Current Mood: exhausted
• Current Music: Another One Bites The Dust ~ Queen + Paul Rodgers

 

 

Oh Your Five (Five) Five Dollar (Five dollar) Five Dollar Footlong

Back in April I went to my local camera store's annual garage sale.  At that sale, I saw a rando lens that had no mount upon it.  Upon closer examination, I saw that it was a Vivitar universal lens.  Not sure what it is called at the moment, but I was given an adapter for a Nikon and purchased a lens to use with it like 10 years later.  

 I want to say that was a 135mm, but I would have to go back and look.

Anyway, I saw this lens...This 400mm lens in a box for $5. I knew I had an adapter for it and would be a fool to pass it up.

Anyway, today I actually got to use it for the first time in a "for serious" kind of way.  I went down to Yellowwood State Forest in Brown county, slapped that thing on my D3500 and decided what there was to see. I came across a VERY cooperative butterfly:

 As this is the first time I really got the opportunity to use this lens, I did a lot of messing around with F Stops to see what worked and what didn't.  Much like my filter adventure from a while back, it's not very forgiving if you get things just wrong.  An incorrect F Stop on a day like this seemed to be an over or under exposure, and it didn't look like there would be much I could do to salvage those images.  Which is fine, that is the purpose of this experiment.

The detail on something as simple as a wooden post (directly above) is outstanding, but the focus is VERY touchy.  I'm not sure if the lens was designed that way, it is a byproduct of it's size, or if it is just because it is old, but if I'm not extremely careful, things get out of focus.  Which is okay.

 Anyway, The lens is great.  Five dollars well spent. 

Why Not Aim Up Into The Sky

While I was at a 4th of July party earlier this evening, I happened to see a dragonfly sitting on a wire.  I grabbed my camera and 55-300mm automatic lens that came with the camera.

I was surprised it was still around when I had that done so I started taking pictures.  That little dragonfly hung around for a while and was hamming it up for the camera.

So that was fun.