I have unintentionally developed a tradition of trying strange things with strange cameras at Lambert Park. A previous visit to the park was on a messy spring day with an odd little Olympus camera in hand that I was experimenting with. I went back with my Bonzart Ziegel toy camera for some high-contrast images and to tell a childhood story.
Last Friday found me back at Lambert Park late in the evening with my infrared converted Canon EOS 7D body looking for strange ways to photograph familiar things. I guess Lambert is becoming that place in Strathmore where I get my freak on. Well, more freakish than I normally am, which is saying something.
Strathmore, AB, 2024-08-09
Strathmore, AB, 2024-08-09
I am still having a heck of a time getting images exposed properly. What the meter says is properly exposed can be wildly over or under when I look at the display. I also need to keep the histogram turned on all the time to make sure I’m not exposing beyond when I can recover in a RAW converter.
Strathmore, AB, 2024-08-09 copy
AB, 2024-08-09 copy
I am mostly liking the look of what I am getting, but it is not as easy to get the images I was hoping to get as I expected. Why does everything have to come with an obscene learning curve? I’m getting old and cranky and like it more when things “just work” these days. They generally don’t.
A parent crabbed at me while I was making that last photo as he had a kid playing in the trees. He thought I was taking pics of his kid. I was actually waiting for those moments when his kid was obscured by foliage to depress the shutter. He sniped at me that I shouldn’t be taking pics of his kid and I snarled back that I wasn’t because I didn’t want to ruin a good photo with his brat showing in it. Also, that the park was open to all so deal with it. Anyhow, there’s what I think was an eight year old boy at the extreme right of the last image, but I waited for him to move behind the leaves and he is not visible at all.
The crabby parent left with his kid while muttering under his breath at me. Suited me fine. Beat it, d-bag.
Images made with an infrared converted Canon EOS 7D using a Canon 10-18mm EFS USM f3.5-5.6 lens.
