{"id":10141,"date":"2015-09-08T14:58:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T18:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10141"},"modified":"2015-09-08T14:58:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T18:58:10","slug":"008366-constraints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/09\/08\/008366-constraints\/","title":{"rendered":"008\/366: Constraints"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m playing around with the various camera lenses I own, which include a rarely-used fixed 50mm focal length. This is “rarely used” because a good deal of what I use the camera for is taking pictures of the kids, and the separation needed to get them in frame with this lens is really difficult to maintain.<\/p>\n

The cool thing about it is that it has a really large aperture, so you can get an extremely narrow depth of field, which makes for some cool focus effects. The lack of zoom capability is a bit of a challenge, in that if you want to frame a shot a particular way, you need to physically walk back and forth to get in just the right spot. It’s kind of an interesting constraint, though, and I can see spending some time playing with this. For now, here’s a playing-around shot of a weed next to the pond in our back yard.<\/p>\n

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This is scaled but not cropped. It might’ve been better to be a hair father to my right for this (to move the weed a little farther from the rocks, and closer to the fountain), but it was kind of an inconvenient place to stand as it was. And I’m not unhappy with this.<\/p>\n

So, you know, I’m enjoying playing around. I’ll probably use this lens to do some science at some point, but I need to think about the best way to do that….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m playing around with the various camera lenses I own, which include a rarely-used fixed 50mm focal length. This is “rarely used” because a good deal of what I use the camera for is taking pictures of the kids, and the separation needed to get them in frame with this lens is really difficult to… Continue reading 008\/366: Constraints<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-684","category-pictures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}