WARREN, CONNECTICUT – I occasionally experiment with odd or eccentric bits of equipment to help keep the daily photo grind fresh. For the last few days I’ve been shhoting with a 12mm rectilinear (as opposed to fish-eye) lens on my full frame Leica M9. This lens is so wide that it’s a miracle that it even forms an image. When I say wide, I mean that I often find myself having to crop my knuckles out of the frame. Ultra wides offer huge depth of field so near-far compositions with everything in focus are possible.
I’ve sworn never to post pictures of pets. Why? I’ve explained this before. Pictures of pets remind me of the millions of pictures in online forums the read something like this: “This is my cat Wallace taken with my Canon Superturbulator 600 mm lens. You can see every whisker!” Lonely guy stuff. Nothing better to take a picture of than the pet cat. Anyway, this is my second exception in almost a year. Basil, our Norwich Terrier, wandered into the frame as I was exploring near-far. Leica M9 and Voigtländer 12mm lens.
6 replies on “Saturday October 9, 2010”
I would love nothing more than to see a photo montage of Basil, perhaps some seasonal shots?
Laura – A great idea for a project. I’ll work on it.
Good one of Basil!
Doug and Barbara – thanks for commenting. As you may know Basil is a criminal mastermind when it comes to stealing food – he moves chairs to be able to hop up on tables and opens zippers on bags to get at chocolate inside (he didn’t get the memo on chocolate being bad for dogs). He also has a talent for hogging the limelight, sort of the Chuck Schumer of dogs.
Maria loves pictures of Basil, this must have made her day
It made my day! How smart of him to have wandered into the frame! His coat, coupled with the leaves, does add to the composition.