America’s Next Top Wide-Angle: The Pentax 43mm Limited
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007I tried to force the 43mm into being a wide-angle lens today. Needless to say, it didn’t work.
I’d been taking some photos of the lovely yellow weeds behind my porch with the 43mm attached. The sun was alternately shining brightly and going behind clouds the entire time. At the beginning, I didn’t even bother to look up when the light changed - I just thanked God that the sun wasn’t singeing my skin for a moment. For some reason, though, when the sky clouded over the last time (it was actually the very last time of the entire afternoon), I looked up.
Ah, the tableau was stunning! I immediately ripped my camera off the tripod, changed the settings, and propped it on the grass, leaning against the tripod to try to get a jump shot for my 365 pic with that incredible background. I hadn’t really tried one before, and the angle was terrible - the nice part of the sky was just above the house behind mine, so I had to put the camera at about 60 degrees to miss the house (I had a few shots where the roof was in the corner). Then, of course, I had to jump into the camera frame AND capture it all with the remote. Ha!
It was still a nice sky:
And that photo I’d been shooting prior to this? Here it is, although I’m not completely finished with it yet:
