What I Do On My Lunch Hour

germaine_sba

Here are a few pictures that I've shot over my lunch hour. I can't really call these the result of Urban Exploration. A better description would be Urban Wanderings. Feel free to comment.:):

ScottMcLeod

I absolutely LOVE pics #2 and #3!

#1, 4, and 5 dont do a thing for me.

fraincs

absolutly love number 3 but i would try a tighter crop

jimf

germaine_sba wrote:

That's odd bokeh on that one. What lens did you use, maybe a DO?

(I really enjoyed the other shots, especially the B&W shots.)

germaine_sba

jimf wrote:

That's odd bokeh on that one. What lens did you use, maybe a DO?

That was shot with my Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM set at about 70mm. It's got a macro setting, and I was using that.

What's a DO?

Thanks for your comments.

germaine_sba

fraincs wrote:

absolutly love number 3 but i would try a tighter crop

The whole scene was very strange. That is a huge room, and the couple in the picture were the only people in it. I wanted to get across the size of the room and the incongruity of just having two people dancing in it. That's why I didn't crop it closer.

Thanks for taking the time to comment.:):

Phil U.

I like the dancers - cool shot.

adrian_k

the second is terrific, I love the shadow of the lamp on the wall.

germaine_sba wrote:

Here are a few pictures that I've shot over my lunch hour. I can't really call these the result of Urban Exploration. A better description would be Urban Wanderings. Feel free to comment.:):

jimf

germaine_sba wrote:

jimf wrote:

That's odd bokeh on that one. What lens did you use, maybe a DO?

That was shot with my Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM set at about 70mm. It's got a macro setting, and I was using that.

What's a DO?

Diffractive Optics. Canon sells at least one DO lens, a 400mm IIRC. They have odd bokeh, kind of ring-like, which isn't exactly what you have there but reminded me of it. Another one with seriously weird bokeh is Nikon's reflective lens (also a 400mm, I think). It gets this double-image kind of thing that I find kind of disturbing.

Anyway thanks for the clarification, just one more detail to add to my list of pros and cons of different lenses.

germaine_sba

jimf wrote:

Diffractive Optics. Canon sells at least one DO lens, a 400mm IIRC. They have odd bokeh, kind of ring-like, which isn't exactly what you have there but reminded me of it. Another one with seriously weird bokeh is Nikon's reflective lens (also a 400mm, I think). It gets this double-image kind of thing that I find kind of disturbing.

Anyway thanks for the clarification, just one more detail to add to my list of pros and cons of different lenses.

I just looked at that picture again. Now that you mention it, the bokeh does look a little different. As I said, there was a breeze, and the leaves of the tree were really moving around. I think that's what's showing up in the background. (They were moving around enough that I wondered if the picture would turn out. ) I guess I was so enamored of the pink pepper berries that I didn't pay that much attention to what was in the bokeh.

SteveF

Hello,

1-4 are sweet in my book.

Favorite is the cyclist. Beautiful shadows and moment.

Justiceiro

I like the 1st one- I am sort of enamored of the look of "decay" in B&W. Very cool.

where do you live, BTW? that doesn't look like North America.

jimf

germaine_sba wrote:

I just looked at that picture again. Now that you mention it, the bokeh does look a little different. As I said, there was a breeze, and the leaves of the tree were really moving around. I think that's what's showing up in the background.

That makes sense, I could see the possibility of motion blur doing that. I think what threw me is that the berries and branch were so sharp so I wasn't thinking about motion.

I think I was so preoccupied with trying to figure out that one shot that I forgot to mention that I really loved the texture of your B&W shots, and the mood of the other color shots. Nice work, do more :-).