We are having pretty foul weather here, and it’s telling that it’s still the best out of all of Croatia. 🙂 Everybody else seems to be having it worse. It is, however, proving to be quite good for pre-apocalyptic photography:

This time I put the FE 50mm f/1.8 lens on the A7CR, and it worked great. Having a small setup for when “there’s nothing to take pictures of” is starting to yield dividends already, because sometimes best photography happens in shitty weather, when the light is gone already or I expect there to be nothing obvious to take pictures of. The problem was that I would then take out the phone to try to get the picture when that turned out to be wrong, and of course it can do nothing in those conditions. The small sensor image would completely fall apart, producing nasty blotches of noise reduction and blur.

The FE 50mm f/1.8 lens worked great in these conditions: its flaws were invisible, and everything played to its strengths. It was as shap as it needed to be, as light as it needed to be and as bright as it needed to be. I even turned off the automatic vignetting correction on some images because it improved the feeling of dark, gritty and ominous weather with snow on the mountains.

The amount of detail on the pictures is somewhat reduced compared to the maximum I could get in the normal conditions, because the wind was blowing so hard I struggled to keep myself and the camera still enough, and the exposure was not really short enough to freeze either the waves or the pine branches, but in the end it doesn’t matter: it all adds to the mood of the picture. The autofocus started failing in the end, because it was too dark for it to reliably anchor itself to the points of contrast, but at that point there was no light to speak of and the day was over.