Jonathan Gazeley

I’ve decided to start tagging all of my new posts from now with the camera and lens they were taken with. At some point I will probably work back through the archive (250 posts!) and tag those too.

You can now find photos taken with:

• Sony Ericsson K800i
• Fuji Finepix S6500fd
• Fuji Finepix S9600
• Canon AE-1 Program
  • with 50mm lens
  • with 35-70mm lens
  • with 80-200mm lens
• Canon EOS 450D
  • with 18-55mm lens
  • with 70-300mm lens
  • with 50mm lens

This probably won’t interest most people, but it’s a handy reference for me. Anyone who is interested in cameras and lenses might also want to see my Cameras page, or the photography posts on my geek blog.

This a candidate shot for this week’s Photo Challenge theme – glass. I’m not sure if I like it that much, but time is ticking away so it might have to do.

Today my fisheye lens arrived. It’s not a whole lens for an SLR camera; rather an “add-on” lens that screws into the filter thread on my Fuji S9600 or any other lens.

I’ve tried a few ideas with it, and been as creative as one can possibly be in a boring flat on a lazy evening.

First, a badly-focused self portrait:

And an uninspiring shot from my balcony – a view that has appeared on this blog many times before.

I think I’m going to have fun with this lens.

This week’s photo challenge was Pink.

I didn’t have any particular ideas for pink photos , other than I specifically wanted to avoid flowers because they’re too unoriginal. So I decided this would be a good time to try some of the photographic ideas I’ve been meaning to try for ages. One of these ideas was taking a photo through a magnifying glass, which I bought specifically for this purpose a couple of months ago for 99p.

The only “unusual” pink object I could think of was a jelly baby, and this is the rather abstract result.

Never realised how ugly these gelatine infants are until I studied them closely. Yuck.