New Orleans and Thailand Lens Usage

I think I had mentioned before that I only planned to take two lenses with me on both our trip to New Orleans and our trip to Thailand.  The two lenses that made the trip were the 16-35L (which I can't imagine a vacation without the beauty of those wide angles) and the 100L (which often feels like an extension of my brain, this was the one lens I missed in Egypt, well a macro anyway).  Obviously I also took my rangefinder which has a fixed 45mm f/1.7 lens on it as well.

Knowing that I like to analyze my lens usage, I thought it was worth a look at how I used these lenses on both trips.  I just did a screen capture of how the files fell out in Lightroom based on my metadata, first you can see a split by lens, then the second column shows what focal lengths I used on the zoom lens.

First New Orleans:


Next Thailand:


I ended up using my 100L a lot more than I thought I would, at least in Thailand, not nearly as much in New Orleans.  I did use my film camera more in New Orleans as well since I went through 2 rolls of 36 exposures in 2 1/2 days in New Orleans and the same number in 6 days in Thailand.  I am not too surprised that I seemed to stick with the extremes of the zoom lens, though I am a little surprised at how often I used it at 35mm.  Notice the little bump in the middle?  Apparently I like approximately 24mm as well. 

This isn't really helping me with my internal debate between the 24L and the 35L as my next fast prime! 

New Orleans Film Roll 2

My second roll of film in New Orleans was a roll of Ilford Delta ISO 100. I really love the smooth feel of the finer grain, but the fact that there still is some.

New Orleans Film Roll 1

Did you think I was done with vacation photos? Well I am, with digital ones, but I finally got my film back and scanned from both New Orleans and Thailand so there are some more photos to share!!!  I shot two rolls of 35mm film while in New Orleans, one a roll of Fuji slide film, and one roll of Ilford black and white, both were shot on my 35mm rangefinder (a Yashica Electro 35 GSN).  It might have a bit of CA, and manual focus is hard, but I enjoyed shooting with it so much!



































Next post will be the roll of black and white.

Instragram - New Orleans

Our first visit to Bourbon Street, not as crowded as I expected but by the end of the week it was.

Lafayette Cemetary

Our final stop before lunch in the Garden District was Lafayette Cemetery. 
















After that our tour went back over to the French Quarter and then we were done. Mike and I spent the rest of that night watching a Mardi Gras parade, I didn't take my camera. Saturday we came home in the afternoon, but in the morning I was using up a roll of film so you will have to wait until I have that developed and scanned before I can share! I went through two full rolls of film, I can't wait to see if any of them turned out!