Gonna try to take some photos today with the M5 and kit lens...
This weather hit pretty hard.
I'm used to it of course but first bit
of super cold weather can get rough. No reason not to go out and try to enjoy
yourself. Take some photos.
As long as you wear enough clothes it's not a big deal. Except if it gets really
bad, and then you have to be pretty careful.
In cases like this I kind of
need to pre focus where I want to have the subject.
This screen on the M5 is not too bad. Sometimes it does work out well.
Definitely has a lot of articulation in some directions. Can see what I'm
talking about. Kind of like that...
Touchscreen is one of the easier ways to control things. Even though the M5 does
have a nice amount of buttons and dials. The one negative with any type of glove
that has touch capability is that your fingers get colder because it transfers
some of that cold to the fingers.
The nice thing about that standard kit lens is that you have that range of nice
decent wide angle plus the telephoto. So with something like this you've got the
lines to it. It goes into the distance. You can mix it up with something super wide
or a little more narrow.
When you're using wide-angle using something like
this right here shooting up through it. Get close to the actual subject with
that wide. Get whatever's in focus is kind of in the foreground. That way it
just goes off into the distance with that wide. It can look pretty neat.
The minimum focus distance of the kit lens is not amazing, so...
at wide angle I really like getting pretty close.
It's nice when the streams do curved a little bit. You
can use that to your advantage when you're taking the photos. If you want some
of the wide, that's great, but if you want to zoom in a little bit... You can still use
the curve to the stream and it can look pretty neat.
Nice thing about custom modes is that when you switch them back and forth, you
switch it to a different mode. You go back to the one that you're using... all the
settings go back to what you saved.
A little challenging without a good tripod.
One thing you could do to enhance the look of a path is get low. Also use a
wide-angle. Shoot up into the path, especially when there are trees on the sides.
Just love little things like that. These two leaves... Using different focal lengths.
Using them together, separately. One big benefit of this time of years that you
can get into areas you can't get into when the trees are full. Very easy to
access in this case. The texture on this one is super intense.
How did the M5 do with all the snow?
Definitely helpful with the buttons dedicated to ISO, aperture,
shutter speed. Using full manual in those situations
it just helps out a lot. Of course, it doesn't have any type of joystick to select
focal points. So you're still using the touchscreen in that situation, which
isn't ideal with gloves and things. But it works just fine. I'm gonna call it at that.
Think I took quite a few interesting little photos. They'll being the video of
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Thanks again! Scott from Photography Banzai.
So in a situanchaunn
The minimum... mehhh, minimum, minimum
With streams, they actually pretty neat...