We visited Ocean City, NJ in May, as we usually do. And it was a lovely 5-day getaway, as it usually is 😁
I brought three cameras with me: my old standby DSLR Canon 80D, my late-90s-era 35mm SLR Canon Rebel 2000, and a new instant camera, Lomo’Instant Wide.
I am going to spare you the instant photos, because they were largely experimental, and mostly not good. But I am eager to show you some of what I captured on 35mm (Kodacolor 200) film, because I’m really happy with these. I am usually a 50mm-focal-length kind of girl. I like it for everyday life pictures, but this particular weekend I was drawn to exploring the “compression” effect of long lenses. If you don’t know what I mean by that, let me show you two images that should illustrate my point.
Isn’t that a cool effect? And if you think about it, it makes sense. Look out a window, and notice how much of the scenery you see within the frame of the window when you are physically close to it, versus when you are looking through it from afar. So, while the effect is known as “lens compression” it actually has more to do with where you are standing in relation to the subject than it does with the focal length of the lens.
Here’s another image taken from a distance with the digital camera at 250mm. Look at how all of those buildings are stacked up right against the “No Surrey Carts” sign. And yet, that pink hotel in the top of the frame is actually a few blocks away!
Anyway, I attached my 80mm-200mm lens to the film camera and went out on the boardwalk. You can see that compression effect at work in a few of these, especially the one with the gigantic rubber ducky peeking out of a doorway. These are my favorite shots from the roll. You can click any image to enlarge it, if you want a closer look.
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