{"id":16053,"date":"2012-02-26T15:40:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T07:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=16053"},"modified":"2017-02-25T19:45:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T11:45:45","slug":"weekends-and-35mm-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2012\/02\/26\/weekends-and-35mm-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekends and 35mm &ndash; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The more pictures I take of Hannah, the more I\u2019m convinced it\u2019s incredibly hard to take pictures of children! Specifically; they don\u2019t pose on demand, and they\u2019re constantly on the move. Out of say every one hundred pictures I take of Hannah, roughly about three quarters would be usable (as in in-focus + correctly exposed + acceptable composition with cropping), and of that number, perhaps just a quarter of them would be memorable.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest challenge I face now is subject motion \u2013 Hannah will not remain still. So the only thing left for me to do is to ramp up the shuttle-release speed to 1\/250s or faster when possible , and it\u2019s not always so unless there\u2019s reasonably good light. Shooting wide open at f1.8 isn\u2019t always viable either, with the shallow depth-of-field I have to deal with as I typically take pictures of Hannah up-close.<\/p>\n<p>In any case; pictures taken today on Sunday, and just before we headed out for dad\u2019s birthday lunch at Wah Lok Cantonese Restaurant.=)<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_6074-greenwich-brunch-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/blog-2012-hannah-N7K_6074-greenwich-brunch-flickr_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_6074-greenwich-brunch-flickr\" width=\"320\" height=\"478\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Greenwich&#8217;s kopitiam. Hannah was moving about, so some sharpening was necessary in post-processing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_6098-greenwich-brunch-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/blog-2012-hannah-N7K_6098-greenwich-brunch-flickr_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_6098-greenwich-brunch-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"364\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getting fed french-toast for her breakfast.=)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_6110-greenwich-brunch-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/blog-2012-hannah-N7K_6110-greenwich-brunch-flickr_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_6110-greenwich-brunch-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">She wasn&#8217;t really dressed to play in the water feature area of the compound, so we&#8217;ll return here on another date for more pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_6138-lentor-sunflowers-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/blog-2012-hannah-N7K_6138-lentor-sunflowers-flickr_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_6138-lentor-sunflowers-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"364\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sunflowers at Lentor were in full-bloom. There&#8217;s a bee collecting nectar which you can just about spot in the lower-left flower.=)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_6158-lentor-sunflowers-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/blog-2012-hannah-N7K_6158-lentor-sunflowers-flickr_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_6158-lentor-sunflowers-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shot with the very non-macro 35mm, and as far as minimum focusing distance allowed me to!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_6168-lentor-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/blog-2012-hannah-N7K_6168-lentor-flickr_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_6168-lentor-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannah learning from Daddy.=)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more pictures I take of Hannah, the more I\u2019m convinced it\u2019s incredibly hard to take pictures of children! Specifically; they don\u2019t pose on demand, and they\u2019re constantly on the move. Out of say every one hundred pictures I take<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2012\/02\/26\/weekends-and-35mm-part-2\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Weekends and 35mm &ndash; Part 2<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[519,518],"class_list":["post-16053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-children-blues","tag-35mm","tag-d7000","wpcat-7-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/blog-2012-hannah-N7K_6138-lentor-sunflowers-flickr.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}