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• Redondo Beach

  August 26th, 2008

  It's been almost a month since my last update and I think that's a shame.

  I've been busy, actually haven't shot as much film as I would have liked and haven't developed anything in about a month as well. Work has taken up a lot of my time..

  But! This past weekend I rented a 45mm TS lens and had a ton of fun with it. My brother spent a couple days down in Redondo Beach with my uncle. On saturday I went down there with my Mom to pick him up. It was the first time I had been there. All of the photos in this post were with that lens and the vast majority were at f/2.8, which is the only downfall and my mistake. I should have stopped down to at least f/4 for a lot of them.

  I'll let the photos speak for themselves. And, if you listen to them, Mogwai is the perfect soundtrack to this post (specifically, I'm listening to Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait).

  

  

  

  Smoke from the fire at Griffith Park

  

  

  

  This lens was a ton of fun to shoot with. I wasn't quite sure how what I was doing was affecting the images, and I think I only used the tilt part of the lens. I didn't realize what shifting did and, in hindsight, realized I should have shifted rather than tilted in some of them.

  

  

  

  

  All of these thus far were taken from inside my mom's van.

  This is my uncle's dog, Rudy. He's getting old. :(

  

  

  

  

  They have a few other dogs, as well.

  

  He (she? not sure), aside from Rudy, was the only one to not continually bark at me when I first walked in (the other two are chihuahua's, not sure if that means anything, though :p).

  

  

  

  

  My brother, fresh from the skate park.

  

  And then I was taken on a tour of the nearby beaches, Manhattan, Hermosa, and Redondo.

  

  

  

  

  

  A lot of fishers on the piers.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  Sorry for lack of words to these, I'm not sure what else I could say besides that it was absolutely beautiful and.. I can't even think of anything else.

  

  Dream like.

  

  

  

  

  

  Day was almost gone.

  

  

  Back home, they were playing badminton while dinner was receiving its finishing touches.

  

  It was quite dark already, maximum aperture of 2.8 hurt me. I shot a couple with my Leica, but I haven't finished that roll yet. Also, focusing on an SLR without any focus assist is quite hard.

  

  My uncle.

  

  

  

  

  Another dog.

  

  Mother and daughter.

  

  And the other dog (I think this one covers them all now).

  

  Outside, about to say goodbye and goodnight.

  

  Back home.

  

  Following morning I had to take a self before I returned the lens. Sad occasion that was and I am definitely going to purchase one in the coming months. Shooting with this one was way too fun, and I didn't even use it to its full potential.

  

  Thank you for viewing.