Although they can be more of a challenge to use as you have to plan your shots more carefully
One of her most recent purchases from Warehouse Express in Norwich was a Nikon 20mm f2.8, after we left Warehouse Express and all the lovely tempting goodies they have in their huge showroom we decided to head out into Norwich for a bit of street photography and lunch
I thought I'd share just of a few of the images from our walk around Norwich with the new lens
The Sweetie stall in the amusingly named Gentlemans Walk was a very colourful start, I particularly find it difficult to start pointing a camera at complete strangers in the street especially with such a short focal length lens and always take a few minutes to "warm up" and allow the feelings of self conciousness fade
Just round the corner from John Lewis there is a very photogenic piece of metal sculpture which you may recognise from some Antonella's previous photoshoots
One of the characteristics of a lens like the 20mm f2.8 is it's ability to produce bokeh which is a Japanese word which means something like blur. In the image above the subject is the line of black flints with the background being nicely blured or bokeh'd
As we stood looking at the building with the Panasonic signs on it we noticed a stream of people coming up the a Big Issue seller. It appeared they were on some sort of treasure hunt type event as they all seemed to ask him a question and his answer gave them their next clue. They didn't know whether to look at us or their friend with her point & shoot so it made a change to be on the other side of the "uncle bob" situation we find at weddings where one of the guests tries to gatecrash our professional shots
We finished off in Norwich market which is the largest and one of the oldest in the country
Then we headed for home to get the batteries of her other purchase on charge - looks like I owe you another blog posting very soon
