Day 3415 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this date seven years ago (day 858 of one photo every day): Bocca Grande.
Day 2,925 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
(n this day eight years ago (day 3): Office
Day 2,911 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day three years ago (day 1815): Basil
Day 2,908 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day five years ago (day 1,082): Staten Island Ferry Terminal
Mount Agung Bali, 20 years ago.
Day 2,875 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day seven years ago (day 319): Food Market, Nairobi
My untested bias this that this uncomplicated design from the 1950s has excellent “bokeh”. In other words the out of focus portions of an image are creamy and transitions from focused to unfocused are smooth. I decided to test this hypothesis today so I mounted the lens and fitted a neutral density filter so it could shoot wide open (with thin depth of field) in daylight and retraced yesterday’s path through Central Park (which I shot yesterday with my Luxocron lens with pretty good results, bokeh-wise)>
I shot a hundred or so images with disappointing results. Say goodbye to nostalgia. The 1962 lens produced harsh, jarring bokeh. In fact at f2.0 the rendering of in-focus portions of the image was harsh. There were very few images that I found useable on these pages – see the twigs and daffodils below. This lens is going into retirement.
I’ll be continuing bokeh testing for the next few days.
Day 2,737 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (day 2007): Boston
I shoot some floral duds in the Spring. This year I’m trying to circumvent the problem by shooting wide open with neutral density filter to at least separate out backgrounds. I’m cycling though all of the 50mm lenses that I own to sort out (again) what their out of focus images look like (the quality that is referred to as “bokeh”), Today the 50mm APO-Summicron is up – the lens that I refer to as the Luxocron.
Day 2,736 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (day 2,006): Connecticut backlit.
