Wide Angle Wednesday

Flying her BB-8 Kite at Jones Beach
Canon 5D Mark III, EF 24-105mm f/4, f/8, 1/250sec, 100ISO, 28mm

Last week I was lucky enough to obtain a new camera, a full frame Canon dSLR. The Canon 5D Mark III is the new body, and it is amazing compared with where I am coming from, the EOS 60D. A few of my favorite features from moving up are that the viewfinder shows 100% of what will be in the shot, the autofocus system is so much better, and the low light sensitivity of the full frame sensor is leagues better. I was shooting an event with the ISO set to 12,800, and the 60D, I'd be afraid of going above 1,600. 

I took the camera to the beach late Saturday afternoon to capture some shots of my daughter as the sunset approached. The photo above was shot at 28mm, which is wide angle on a full frame camera. On my 60D, a crop sensor body, the focal equivalent would 44.8mm, which would mean this lens at this zoom setting would not be a wide angle on the crop body. 

I'm looking forward to learning this camera and producing new work with it.

Wide Angle Wednesday

Serene Farm View
Canon 60D, EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6, f/8, 1/400s, 320ISO, 18mm

I took this photograph in the Putnam Valley area on a site visit on the last day of July 31st, 2013. This was the site of a wedding that would take place about a month later, my vantage point in this photograph is about where the cocktail catering tent would be located. Several tents would be brought in, sound system, tables, food, lighting, restroom trailers, and a generator would all come from somewhere else. But on this fine July day, the only thing there was this stunning view.