{"id":19627,"date":"2013-12-02T07:07:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T23:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=19627"},"modified":"2018-04-03T15:52:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:52:45","slug":"kids-17mm-25mm-etc-part-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2013\/12\/02\/kids-17mm-25mm-etc-part-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids @ 17mm, 25mm etc. \u2013 Part 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two kids have been at home with Ling over this December holiday stretch, and that&#8217;s given them plenty of opportunities to interact and know each other. Ling was remarking that Peter especially seems to enjoy Hannah&#8217;s company, possibly because Hannah has a way of making him laugh with her antics. Though come to think of it, Peter hasn&#8217;t quite learned how to laugh out loud. His version of laughing is, at the moment, a wide open-mouth grin and silent laughter of sorts!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19628\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19628\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19628\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blog-2013-children-OL6A2083-morning-together.gif\" alt=\"Weekday morning pictures with the two. Ling still finds the E-PL6 a little too complex, but thankfully the full-on auto mode of the camera is able to handle shots like this, with face-focus tracking enabled.\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Weekday morning pictures with the two. Ling still finds the E-PL6 a little too complex, but thankfully the full-on auto mode of the camera is able to handle shots like this, with face-focus tracking enabled.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19629\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19629\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19629 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blog-2013-children-OL6A2085-morning-together.jpg\" alt=\"We sure hope that Hannah's love and affinity for her baby brother isn't a passing phase! Both of these two pictures were taken using the 17mm, and shot wide-open at f1.8.\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blog-2013-children-OL6A2085-morning-together.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blog-2013-children-OL6A2085-morning-together-270x180.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blog-2013-children-OL6A2085-morning-together-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We sure hope that Hannah&#8217;s love and affinity for her baby brother isn&#8217;t a passing phase! Both of these two pictures were taken using the 17mm, and shot wide-open at f1.8.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19630\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19630\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blog-2013-children-OMDB4396-coffeebean-greenwich-peter.jpg\" alt=\"Peter chews his fingers a lot more than Hannah did at this age. Taken using the 45mm, and wide-open at f1.8. I'm still getting a handle of this short telephoto lens, and frequently to stretch myself as far as I can when shooting over a dining table. The lens is wonderfully sharp in its image center.\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blog-2013-children-OMDB4396-coffeebean-greenwich-peter.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blog-2013-children-OMDB4396-coffeebean-greenwich-peter-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter chews his fingers a lot more than Hannah did at this age. Taken using the 45mm, and wide-open at f1.8. I&#8217;m still getting a handle of this short telephoto lens, and frequently need to stretch myself as far as I can when shooting over a dining table. The lens is at least wonderfully sharp in its image center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19631\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19631\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blog-2013-children-OMDB4411-coffeebean-greenwich-drawing.jpg\" alt=\"Post breakfast activities @ Coffee Bean. She's been drawing a lot - so much so that I'm seriously toying with the idea of buying her a Galaxy Note tablet. Taken using the 25mm and at f1.8. Hannah was seated right beside me, so this required quite a bit of arm contortion for me to put both her drawing, her crayon on her right hand, and part of her face into the frame!\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blog-2013-children-OMDB4411-coffeebean-greenwich-drawing.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blog-2013-children-OMDB4411-coffeebean-greenwich-drawing-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Post breakfast activities @ Coffee Bean. She&#8217;s been drawing a lot &#8211; so much so that I&#8217;m seriously toying with the idea of buying her a Galaxy Note tablet. Taken using the 25mm and at f1.8. Hannah was seated right beside me, so this required quite a bit of arm contortion for me to put both her drawing, her crayon on her right hand, and part of her face into the frame!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19632\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19632\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19632\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blog-2013-hannah-OL6A2024-drawing.jpg\" alt=\"Hannah showing off her artwork. She's improved her drawing abilities by leaps. Taken using the 17m and wide-open at f1.8. \" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blog-2013-hannah-OL6A2024-drawing.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blog-2013-hannah-OL6A2024-drawing-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannah showing off her artwork. She&#8217;s improved her drawing abilities by leaps. Taken using the 17m and wide-open at f1.8.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19633\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19633\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blog-2013-peter-OMDB4365-morning-greeting.jpg\" alt=\"Peter on the weekend morning, and laughing thanks to Hannah just to my right. With the 45mm and wide-open at f1.8. again.\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blog-2013-peter-OMDB4365-morning-greeting.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blog-2013-peter-OMDB4365-morning-greeting-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter on the weekend morning, and laughing thanks to Hannah just to my right. With the 45mm and wide-open at f1.8. again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two kids have been at home with Ling over this December holiday stretch, and that&#8217;s given them plenty of opportunities to interact and know each other. Ling was remarking that Peter especially seems to enjoy Hannah&#8217;s company, possibly because<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2013\/12\/02\/kids-17mm-25mm-etc-part-16\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Kids @ 17mm, 25mm etc. \u2013 Part 16<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,13],"tags":[609,545,546,531,547,542],"class_list":["post-19627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-at-home","category-children-blues","category-photography-cameras","tag-m4-3","tag-17mm","tag-olympus-45mm","tag-e-m5","tag-e-pl6","tag-panasonic-25mm","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-7-id","wpcat-13-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blog-2013-children-OL6A2085-morning-together.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19627","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=19627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}