your average friday at uni

Couple of photos today, couple of interesting things happened ... but at the end of the day it was still your average uni friday. Chose to bring a different lens today, and these photos might show the versatility of this lens ... haven't regretted buying it yet :)

So we start off here ...

Location: UTS Design & Architecture Building

Gear: Canon 50D & EF 24-105 F4L IS USM

Settings: 24mm, f4, 1/250, ISO 1600

So this was physical chemistry 1 tutorial, more or less to do with thermodynamics .. but we got into so much depth that it became quite abstract and we might as well have been discussing the meaning of life. If the equations on the board don't phase you, you're a better person than i am haha.

And from the discussion of why stuff happens the way it does, we journey to another world ... a world of 12ft unicycles

Location: Darling Harbour

Same gear as the last photo

Settings: 24mm, f4, 1/800, ISO 250

It was a lot higher than the photo let on, and we were impressed enough to actually cough up some change for the guy.

We've gone from the meaning of life to a dreamworld where men in unicycles con little children of their money. Now I present the final destination of the very long day ... a meet up between UTS Exposure and USYD Photosoc

Location: Hermann's Bar @ USYD ... props to them for a nice bar

Same gear as the photo before and the photo before that

Settings: 24mm, f10, 0.3sec, ISO 1600, flash fired

Before you judge, there's actually a reason behind the madness of the settings used in this photo. ISO 1600 was used so the photo didn't look like it was taken in a cave.

Shutter Speed of 0.3sec was used to keep the colours in the background in the photo. If 1/60 was used, the background would actually be white ... as the flash would overcome the lights lighting up the wall.

And the abnormal f/10 aperture was used to control exposure ... straight forward aye?

The meet up was definitely a success, and at the very least everyone enjoyed themselves in their own weird way. The camera definitely got put to the test today, starting off with an indoor photo, then to bright sunlight in the middles of the day, to a very dimly lit bar. My conclusion ... pretty versatile. A lot of other things to consider, but I won't get into that today haha

The lens, being L-series, I never worried about. 24mm was wide enough for everything I needed today, and didn't hunt much (if any), even in the bar :)

Oh and I just realised, you can click on all the photos to see them bigger, you should really check out the whiteboard :P

Again, check out my photos on flickr www.flickr.com/chrisw230889

or if you don't like flickr then most photos are on facebook too

Cheers