Scott of Photography Banzai. Today I'm gonna do another photo outing in downtown...
with the Viltrox 23 millimeter f/1.4 and a Canon m50. Probably going to do aperture priority,
so we'll see how that goes. Changed so it switches between aperture and evcomp.
I disabled all of these for whatever features they were. You know,
if I accidentally press that stuff. Use my hat backwards...
I was expecting rain and it could come, but we'll find out.
Gonna try to go to a slightly different area this time.
This is always a nice building.
Rockford is popular for Sock Monkeys. They came from a company that used to exist here.
I think it was a "Rockford Sock Company" or something like that obviously.
I'm going to head over that direction to that Davis Park thing.
You know, I'm gonna set my camera to 200 iso just in case.
Right now I'm using f/2.5 going negative one-third evcomp, iso 200...
It's a nice little spot.
There we go, so that is the building with the newspaper as I mentioned in my last video.
They're trying to lease space out because I'm sure they're not doing amazingly well.
Sports factory, that was.. uh.. basically an abandoned building
that they fixed up and made a fitness building.
So that was nice. Let's take my evcomp down a little bit here. Oh, come on camera!
Come to the city and then I take pictures of trees.
I was expecting rain today.
My plan was to go out in the rain. This has a decent hood.
I would have a nice large umbrella type of thing. But this is definitely better honestly. Although
the pictures might be more interesting with the rain, which is what I'm trying to put forth.
We've got ramps ladies and gentlemen!
This is a manufacturing building that they revamped into a hotel.
This is an interesting area they revamped whatever I think it's a parking garage,
or something, and they do outdoor movie stuff. Or at least I did before the whole pandemic.
Nice decent open area downtown that can have events.
This appears to be what was a bridge.
We can go through the fence...
So we've got a dam. We've got exciting visuals. I'm gonna drop this down.
So in this case 5.6, change the evcomp just so I can save the clouds a little bit. This
top button is much nicer to change evcomp than this bottom little thing. It's easier to access.
Mostly focusing on f/2.8
as the baseline aperture that I'm using. It should give me a nice quality boost,
but not be so slow that I don't get a huge benefit from using a larger aperture lens.
That is the courthouse over there...
That didn't work out. The camera was not wanting to focus fast enough to take a shot. I think I got
one on the trailing end. I don't think I'd use m50 in servo mode. It's just not smart enough.
Good mix of different things around here.
I don't know if you've ever done jury duty, but it is an interesting experience.
I went through the entire process once where I was selected. I was on the jury...
This building here is a large convention center.
Used to go there quite a bit for basketball games.. hockey games..
There is now one hotel, but before that there was nothing down here. So if someone wanted to go to
some type of event, concert, they would come here but then have to drive out of the downtown area.
That's a nice angle.
It's a decent position for that. Go to 5.6 change my evcomp, try to save those clouds a little bit.
I wish I had a polarizing filter.
Nice beautiful day out. I'm here relatively early which I prefer in this area. Also just uh keep
looking for interesting stuff. See how the photos turn out with this setup. It is
resetting a little bit I can tell... that lens.
That's it for this video with the Viltrox 23mm f/1.4
out in a city area. I hope you enjoyed it. Scott of Photography Banzai, thanks! If you
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