Monday, February 15, 2010

Skiing - there is no better way to enjoy the winter


Leaf, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Young birches, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Pines, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Today evening I went cross-country skiing for an hour, enjoying the winter landscape which had got some frost during the cold night. I took some photographs, of which here are three specimens. There is enough light for hand-held shooting even at 5:30 PM, so it is nice to carry a camera when skiing.

A colleague took today some photographs of me at work. He is starting a photography project, taking environmental photographs of (mostly) researchers in their offices. This is a challenging topic - how much you can do in such a setting?

But he seems to have invented a good approach, using a 24 mm lens (Canon L series) with a full-frame camera (Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III). It is not often one sees such a wide lens used for portraiture. But apparently you can make it work.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

These are great. Check out my daughters snow pics at sharpeyephotos.blogspot.com.

Juha Haataja said...

Thanks!