The Hexanon 57mm F1.4 lens has been my main lens for the last year. It's almost always attached to one of my Konica SLRs and I trust it. It's taken a while to get used to its focus range, but overall it's a consistent, solid lens that. Since I will likely never be able to afford the 57mm F1.2, chances are it will be my main compact portrait lens for a while.
Here are some scenic/object photos I've taken with it. See how much light it gathers, even in low-light circumstances, even with rather expired film.
Mainly, however, the 57mm F1.4 is a portrait lens. This lens is intended for people, intended to be the most compact means to get a photo of somebody without distorting their features. Here are a few portraits it has taken recently.
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When it became clear that I was not going to find work for July, I had to find an alternative means to earn some extra cash. One of the sources I found was Rover, an app-based sytem for connecting dog walkers with dogs. One of my first customers was Remy, an energetic golden retriever whose owner had injured her leg and needed to recover.
Since mid-June, I walked Remy three or so times a week. We would walk along the dyke in northern Chilliwack, or through the parks in downtown Chilliwack, and sometimes I'd taker her to Popkum. I learned not to let a golden retriever near fast-moving water, that there aren't enough good walking spaces in the farm areas of Chilliwack, and that a dog will really love you if you only show up in their life to take them for walks. Yesterday was my last day for Remy walks. His owner has healed up enough to take her for walks herself. I'm a little sad about it, but it's also a bit of a relief; it was a little too hard to be a good enough teacher while I ran away at the end of the schoolday to take a dog for a walk three times a week. It gives me a little more sympathy for the many underpaid teachers in the world who need to take on second jobs in order to get by. I was essentially doing the same thing, on a very small level, and it was a little too much. I'd love to get a dog of my own one of these days, but I don't feel like I'm home enough to do a good job. I work every day and spend a lot of time not-at-home. It would be cruel to bring a dog into my life when I'm never really there.
Terry Lefebvre, over on Facebook, posted a video of me playing "Good Times Roll" at the Triple Play pub in Chilliwack a few Thursdays ago. It's definitely a jam, but it also sounds kinda' good. For a bunch of people playing the song when we've never rehearsed, it's pretty fun.
I can't seem to embed it, but here's a link: CLICK HERE. When Ric Ocasek, lead writer for The Cars, passed away a couple weeks ago, I got pretty sad. The Cars were one of the first rock groups I really connected with. When I was only 12 years old or so, my sister came home with a vinyl copy of their debut album. I played it over and over again and the music never wore out on me. When I went through the classic "throw out your secular music" phase of my evangelical youth, The Cars were one of the hardest ones to justify. The music was just too good; the lyric connected with me too much. Destroying it felt wrong. Ocasek's songs have always stuck with me and they're a regular feature of my solo live shows. They're often just a little too complex for the average pub jam, but they're nonetheless solid crowd-pleasers. So singing "Good Times Roll" and a few others at a pub jam seemed approriate. Rest in peace, Ric. |
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