Matthew Durr Photography

Misplaced
135mm, ISO 100, f/4, 1/2000
Orange partial color edited in LR 4

In an effort to inject a little creativity into my samples at the end of the 135mm f/2.8 Series-E review, I took it upon myself to do a solo photo-walk around town. Granted, my town isn’t exactly a great place for street photography, as “downtown” consists of about three blocks. Outside of that, suburbia. I figured this might present a great challenge, and I’m very glad I stood up to it. In addition to getting some great shots for the review (and this post), I ran into a photographer named Butch. With him were a few other photographers, part of the Central Kentucky Photo Group, a local internet-connected photo meet-up community. An organization like this is EXACTLY what I have been looking for, as I have always wanted to go on group photo walks in big(ger) cities in my state to give real street photography a try.

Long story short, we talked, and walked, and shot some pictures (thus my solo-walk turned into a small group!)—mine in the set below. Funny enough, their reason for being in my hometown was a meet-up for a “small-town Americana” photo-walk. Geeze, I keep forgetting how small my town is. 🙂

And now for some shots that didn’t make it into the review (just because of length constraints):

Country Meets City
135mm, ISO 400, f/5.6, 1/250

Left for None
135mm, ISO 100, f/2.8, 1/1600
Focus set on bottom of box

Curving Thirds
135mm, ISO 100, f/4, 1/3200

Bolts a la Pile
135mm, ISO 100, f/4, 1/1250

The Artist, angle two
135mm, ISO 400, f/2.8, 1/60 (handheld!)

Relaxed Randomness
135mm, ISO 100, f/8, 1/500
New plan, I’ll limit flower pictures to one per post. 🙂

The Sap, the Clock Tower
135mm, ISO 100, f/11, 1/100

That’s all for this one folks, thanks for dropping by. Comments welcome, and as always, have a great one! 😀