Starkindler Blog » davis square http://starkindler.us/blog The Photography of David W. Aquilina Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:12:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Not commentary http://starkindler.us/blog/2010/01/not-commentary/ http://starkindler.us/blog/2010/01/not-commentary/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:38:08 +0000 dwa http://starkindler.us/blog/?p=244 This was taken before the special MA senate seat election, so the photo itself isn’t (conscious) commentary.

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There’s a couple more in the gallery and all of them are licensed under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

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The last one, in particular, is a happy accident of shutter speed and IS and deserves a look at larger-than-thumbnail size. The rocks on the shoreline (the Atlantic on the New Hampshire coast) stayed decently sharp while the waves show a bit of motion. Next time I’ll have to purposefully try for that!

]]> http://starkindler.us/blog/2009/07/walkabout-photos/feed/ 0 Playing with the Canon 24mm f/1.4L II http://starkindler.us/blog/2009/05/playing-with-the-24mm/ http://starkindler.us/blog/2009/05/playing-with-the-24mm/#comments Thu, 21 May 2009 02:44:13 +0000 dwa http://starkindler.us/blog/?p=6 I had rented the 24mm f/1.4L II for a little bit to play around with – I love fast lenses, and 24mm is a fun focal length. I ended up really liking the lens but I don’t think I would use it enough to justify it right now – I already have the 17-40mm f/4L after all. Some of the better results from the 24mm:


 
 

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