Neon Lighting and Field of View

Here's a shot taken with an old Manual focus 28mm lens. Really happy with it so far as its nice and small so doesn't weigh a ton, and its close to what a "normal" lens field of view is on a cropped sensor.  See back in the day, the 50mm lens was considered the De facto lens as its field of view was close to the size of the film diagonal length. (Just like we measure TV screens diagonally 35mm films "screen size" is 43mm)  So a true "normal" lens on a film camera would be 43mm but 50mm was adopted as the Standard lens focal length for old film cameras.

In Digital world the APS-C sensor is smaller, therefore to achieve that normal focal length you'd have to use a wider lens,  the diagonal length of a an APS-C sensor is 30.15mm so technically a 30mm lens would be a "normal" field of view. However 28mm lenses are pretty close just like the 50mm is pretty close to in standard film!

So there's a bit of science for you,  here's some eye candy!

Olympic Photo Walk

This is some more images from my Flickr Site taken while walking around the Downtown Vancouver area just before and During the Olympics

"Neon Totem Poles"


Robson Square at night:


Canada flag Reflected


Artistic Trees:

Olympic Torch Photos

My Blog has kind of turned a little olympic themed lately, and thats because there's lots of opportunities to shoot something thats interesting and lends to a lot of opportunities to capture some cool images. I don't take a lot of "street" or "people" shots as I don't find what I do turns out well. This HUGE celebration is a great opportunity to take shots of people on the street as EVERYONE has a camera so its not very intimidating for the crowds or yourself!

Enjoy!

Coquitlam Torch run, on Marmot St. One runner comes down the hill



The Kiss of the torches, as the one runner ignites the torch of the new runner.



The new Torch bearer takes off towards Mackin Park in Coquitlam

Vancouver Pre Olympic Photos

One week left untill Vancouver hosts the biggest party of its life! I toured the Downtown area to checkout how it looks. It was a funny vibe as Granville has been blocked off from traffic and it was really quiet and mellow, sort of like everyone is holding their breath in anticipation. More from this series can be seen at my:
FLICKR Site

The Bay on Granville St.

Deviant Art

I have posted some of my photos on Deviant Art, available for purchase. This is some shameless self promotion, here's the link!

cb750r.deviantart.com

White Rock Beach, BC

I managed to grab this shot today, while driving around on call for work. I got turned around in south Surrey, and found myself heading towards Whiterock. Since I know where to go from there I decided to keep on going and, well since it was sunny I decided to take a look at the "beach" and here's what I saw! I've been finding it hard to take photo's during the day to day routine, but I think I'll keep my camera with me, and make a point of taking a bit of time to frame a shot or two.

Image Size

Hey folks anyone else wanting to put larger sized photos like the ones I have on my blog, should do so by pasting the link from their photo hosting website (flickr, picasa...) and then edit the length and width numbers seen in that text too a width of 747, and height of 500. You need to be using a Stretch template in order to take advantage of the full screen, and giving you more real estate to show off your photos!

The text below is a an example of what flickr's link looks like, I had to hobble it in order for you to see the text not the image, but look for the height and width numbers in quotes, and just change them to the numbers stated, and enjoy.

"a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cb750r/4314725307/" title="Xmas2009-83-Edit by CB750r, on Flickr">img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4023/4314725307_699aeff173_b.jpg" width="747" height="500" alt="Xmas2009-83-Edit"