on film : jp rizal

canon av-1+konika minolta vx100

It was the usual Sunday affair at Powerplant. I was driving and noticed the clouds were pretty over up north and gray and gloomy over at the south. Which meant the JP rizal side would be pretty.

I was right.

When I got separated with the folks and my sister and told them I was going to the bookstore, I sneaked out went to JP Rizal overlooking the Pasig River.

Nobody minded me when I was taking shots, but there was a dude who asked if I was Korean. Lesigh.

take flight to where earth meets the heavens.

I took a chance this morning to go sky-hunting with a close friend. I took my coffee, my cameras, and a pack of malboro lights and headed up my favorite place.

The sky was beautiful. And the floor was full of puddles waiting to be explored.

The last of my rooftop escapades.

All good things must come to an end…

taken with the Canon IXY 910 IS

I’ll tell more when I get home.

canon av-1 + konika minolta vx-100 :

After the Kodak roll winded nicely, I have proceeded in film testing. This time I bought a konika minolta vx100 for the AV-1. I just couldn’t part with the t400cn film just yet until I find a replacement for it.

It’s amazing how people find the right words to say in their photographs. Each photo seems to be like a story waiting to unfold to the next. I admire people with such raw power and emotion.

It was those regular afternoons after work. Nothing really special about this. Just the fact that I was merely testing film. And nothing more. :)

taken with the canon av-1+ konika minolta vx100

on film : The Ayala drop-off

Where we get dropped off from the office each day for the past 2.5+ years.

Taken with the Canon AV-1

the guadalupe-shaw skyline

here are more pics from the rooftop shoot I did yesterday. I forgot to bring my camera today, and I feel naked without it…

medium : Canon IXY 910 IS
shutter speed: 1/202 (seconds)
exposure : 1/200(seconds)
aperture : F/8
ISO : 80

the world through my eyes

I always wanted pictures were I can show my artistic side inside my own photos. I had no tripod and I was left to search for my own makeshift tripod. (mental note: buy a tripod soon). There were no other mediums available but a cooler for some air-conditioning device. This is my favorite.

medium : Canon IXY 910 IS
shutter speed: 1/159 (seconds)

exposure : 1/160(seconds)

aperture : F/8 (seriously? not a 2.8? *surprised)

ISO : 80

After playing around some more, my camera died on me. Hahah. Anyway I was happy with this one :)

the kalayaan flyover and the makati skyline on digital

medium : Canon IXY 910 IS
shutter speed: 1/251 (seconds)

exposure : 1/250(seconds)

aperture : F/2.8

ISO : 80

I have found a haven. 3 flights of steel stairs, hands dusted with gray, powdery, concrete dirt, a leap over cemented hollow blocks and I was greeted by a vast immense space of buildings, bridges and sky.It was 7:30 in the morning. I took a chance to catch what horizon I will be seeing. So far, every chance that I am free for a photo-op, I was blessed with the cloudiest of gloom. But interestingly with patches of golden-orange rays and a peek of blue. Will make do.

Anyway. It was always breath-taking to stand and just watch the world spin madly on.  :) and yes, yes! Here are the pictures.

medium : Canon IXY 910 IS
shutter speed: 1/159 (seconds)
exposure : 1/160(seconds)
aperture : F/2.8
ISO : 80

I could stay here and look on from dusk till dawn. Smoking a cigarette and drinking cheapass/gourmet coffee. I love wide open spaces. But too bad the next time I climb up here the view will be blocked with some big-ass building. :(

notice anything else? :D
medium : Canon IXY 910 IS
shutter speed: 1/403 (seconds)
exposure : 1/400(seconds)
aperture : F/2.8
ISO : 80

I will continue standing here until they block the magnificent view from the distance.
I took these in film as well, I wonder how will they turn out :)

Aperture…and more nose bleeding terminologies (part 2)

Remember the play with Aperture that I did with the AV-1 a few posts back, since I have no idea how that would turn out, I took heed from Bai and read up on Aperture (after being a b1@tch)…based from a certain lens I wanted…

Excerpt from here.

In optics, an aperture is a hole or an opening through which light is admitted. More specifically, the aperture of an optical system is the opening that determines the cone angle of a bundle of rays that come to a focus in the image plane.

It sounds nifty, and that is the concept I really know of (think iris) but I went to focus on the photography part more (where numbers are present), and I screwed the formulas all together for later maybe if I become that g33ky enough…

I really wanted to take notes. But wiki explained it so well that I would just paste the whole shebang here and read it over and over again.

In photography

The aperture stop of a photographic lens can be adjusted to control the amount of light reaching the film or image sensor. In combination with variation of shutter speed, the aperture size will regulate the film’s degree of exposure to light. Typically, a fast shutter speed will require a larger aperture to ensure sufficient light exposure, and a slow shutter speed will require a smaller aperture to avoid excessive exposure.

A device called a diaphragm usually serves as the aperture stop, and controls the aperture. The diaphragm functions much like the iris of the eye—it controls the effective diameter of the lens opening. Reducing the aperture size increases the depth of field, which describes the extent to which subject matter lying closer than or farther from the actual plane of focus appears to be in focus. In general, the smaller the aperture (the larger the number), the greater the distance from the plane of focus the subject matter may be while still appearing in focus.

The lens aperture is usually specified as an f-number, the ratio of focal length to effective aperture diameter. A lens typically has a set of marked “f-stops” that the f-number can be set to. A lower f-number denotes a greater aperture opening which allows more light to reach the film or image sensor.

Aperture priority refers to a shooting mode used in semi-automatic cameras. It allows the photographer to choose an aperture setting and allow the camera to decide the shutter speed and sometimes ISO sensitivity for the correct exposure. This is sometimes referred to as Aperture Priority Auto Exposure, A mode, Av mode, or semi-auto mode.^[3]

Maximum and minimum apertures

The specifications for a given lens typically include the minimum and maximum apertures. These refer to the maximum and minimum f-numbers the lens can be set at to achieve, respectively. For example, two versions of the Canon EF 70-200mm lens have a maximum aperture of f/2.8 and a minimum aperture of f/32.

The maximum aperture (minimum f-number) tends to be of most interest; it is known as the lens speed and is always included when describing a lens (e.g., 100-400mm f/5.6, or 70-200mm f/2.8).

A typical lens will have an f-number range from f/16 (small aperture) to f/2 (large aperture) (these values vary). Professional lenses for 35mm cameras can have f-numbers as low as f/1.0, while professional lenses for some movie cameras can have f-numbers as low as f/0.75 (very large relative aperture). These are known as “fast” lenses because they allow much more light to reach the film and therefore reduce the required exposure time. Stanley Kubrick‘s film Barry Lyndon is notable for having scenes shot with the largest relative aperture in film history: f/0.7.

Lenses which have a fixed focal length (FFL) and large aperture are favored especially by photojournalists who often work in dim light, have no opportunity to introduce supplementary lighting, and need to capture fast breaking events.

Zoom lenses typically have a maximum aperture (minimum f-number) of f/2.8 to f/6.3 through their range. A very fast zoom lens will be constant f/2.8 or f/2, which means the relative aperture will stay the same throughout the zoom range. A more typical consumer zoom will have a variable relative aperture, since it is harder and more expensive to keep the effective aperture proportional to focal length at long focal lengths; f/3.5 to f/5.6 is an example of a common variable aperture range in a consumer zoom lens.

Aperture area

The amount of light captured by a lens is proportional to the area of the aperture, equal to:

Where f is focal length and N is the f-number.

The focal length value is not required when comparing two lenses of the same focal length; a value of 1 can be used instead, and the other factors can be dropped as well, leaving area proportion to the reciprocal square of the f-number N.

If two cameras of different format sizes and focal lengths have the same angle of view, and the same aperture area, they gather the same amount of light from the scene. The relative focal-plane illuminance, however, depends only on the f-number N, independent of the focal length, so is less in the camera with the larger format, longer focal length, and higher f-number.

My nose kept dripping of blood. I have just sported an instant nosebleed

I’m still trying to compare differences which regards to aperture, No apparent proof as of yet. Renault only goes at an aperture of 2.8 and nothing more. While the av-1 can go as high as a 1.8. I have finished the centuria 200 roll on vivi, and I have loaded a new centuria on the av-1. I have to make notes for that since I have hastily clicked away on some scenes the seems to be worthy of the taking. lol@impatience.

and Just so this isn’t a non-picture post.

jp-rizal and pasig river

medium : Canon IXY910 IS

iso : 80
aperture : F/8 (wtf?)

exposure : 1/250