Forecourt Fountain & the New Camera
Published October 11th, 2011
Finally got my Canon 5D Mark II, 24-100 f4L ISM lens, and a better tripod. :)
Took some macro shots with the lens and borrowed extension tubes. I'm not sure the extension tubes are the way to go since my exposure times were longer than I'd like, even at the higher ISOs I can get off the 5D. The 100mm macro I'm looking at is f2.8, and would be good for wedding portraits next summer. . . but maybe extension tubes could let me wait a while to pick up that lens. . . food for thought.
More successful was the foray to the Ira Keller Forecourt Fountain in downtown Portland. This is my all-time favorite fountain (yes, it even beats out the Trevi Fountain in Rome, in my book).
I played around at the fountain with long exposures using my vari-ND filter again. This time I tried to combine it with a polarizing filter. . . tricky stuff since both of them work by rotating them and this meant screwing one rotating filter onto the other rotating filter then trying to rotate each independently to ...
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