Friday Night Phone Boxes

Sounds like a first line in a song doesn't it?

Just gone midnight, the pub up the road is kicking off and kicking out its lagered up boozers. Who you gonna call if the sh!t hit the fan?

No tripod (come on! - that's just going to get kicked - a lot of "kicks" in my text tonight! - by the next passer by swaggering past) so a high iso, f5.6, set using hyperfocus** and 1/6 sec handheld. The incredible depth of field covers it all and this I haven't sharpened at all, as that just increases the noise.

Oh, yes, the lens - the FX circular 8mm f3.5 fisheye from Sigma, a proper lens that I mention on my equipment list in my 'about' page. The DX equivalent has a focal length of 4.5mm. Not an add on and you literally have to get this right, in-frame at the time. You crop it and it's going to show - and show up good! I used it last with this Blip that hit the Spotlight.

I tried this shot with cars coming to and from on the road on the left and they simply didn't add to it. I felt the decrepit building wrapped themselves neatly into a circle and distractions at the edges fruitless, this is more contained. They were so small anyway that they barely showed. Yes, you can see my shadow, the streetlamp above my right shoulder casting that and we are talking of an 180 degree angle of view from edge to edge after all.

Music Link is NOT Blondie but OMD and as far as I know the only hit song about red telephone boxes (there can't be many anyway!)

Thanks to all who got my white blossom (turned pink) into the spotlight yesterday and most of all those who said some very kind words about my Staff Pick. The Crown fitted very nicely but now I feel like Sleeping Beauty after midnight! The stats for the entry in question, the May Day Sunrise Dancing are now at 1428 views and 584 stars, with 41 favourites. I shan't won't be able to repeat or beat that for a while!!

Look in LARGE at all the details - I've cloned nothing out whatsoever.

** Hyperfocus is where you focus on a distance between the nearest and most distant objects you want sharp, with depth of field filling in an area 1/3rd in front and 2/3rds behind that point of focus.