Chris Wilkinson
50mm Friday
Posted January 23rd, 2012 by Chris Wilkinson with Comments Off on 50mm Friday
On Friday night I volunteered at a benefit concert in Charlottetown. It’s another Friday where I didn’t provide a 50mm Friday photo. But, I did make this photo on a Friday using the 50mm.
So, it wins.
This is Donnie Bowers from Vintage 2.0 performing at the benefit dance for Shayna Conway, the Craswell Family, and Maclean Family.
50mm F2.2 1/60s 1600
F2.2 1/60 @ 1600
“Your 50mm Friday Sucks”
Posted January 16th, 2012 by Chris Wilkinson with Comments Off on “Your 50mm Friday Sucks”
“Your 50mm Friday Sucks” – SD
I know. A list of excuses:
- A busy Christmas sidelined 50mm Friday. So busy I forgot.
- The acquisition of an xBox and then Battlefield 3.
- The XBOX is connected to my editing display, when necessary.
- Back problems, I rarely carry my camera bag daily. Back is better now.
None of them, except for back issues, are really great reasons for sucking.
1/60s, ISO1600, F8 with 12mm extension tube.
50mm Friday Dogs don’t need riders.
Posted November 19th, 2011 by Chris Wilkinson with Comments Off on 50mm Friday Dogs don’t need riders.
Today’s 50mm Friday was captured using the Canon 30D and 50mm 1.8 at F4, 1/125 of a second, ISO1600. The crop is significant, cropped from landscape to portrait to improve composition, then slightly cropped to make the subject larger.
I have included the landscape version, cropped to straighten only. Which do you prefer?
50mm Friday (two days late)
Posted November 13th, 2011 by Chris Wilkinson with Comments Off on 50mm Friday (two days late)
Having a drink – 50mm friday
Posted November 4th, 2011 by Chris Wilkinson with Comments Off on Having a drink – 50mm friday
It’s another 50mm Friday! I don’t have exif today, forgot to dig it up!
50mm Friday – The Tunnel
Posted October 28th, 2011 by Chris Wilkinson with Comments Off on 50mm Friday – The Tunnel
Another photograph from the 21 hour drive to Mississauga.
50mm F4 1/80 ISO1250
Nothern Lights over Nova Scotia
Posted October 25th, 2011 by Chris Wilkinson with Comments Off on Nothern Lights over Nova Scotia
When the planets align, and a severe space weather storm combines with clear skies, it turns into a photographers dream.
This image was made along side highway 104 while on the way back to Prince Edward Island from a short weekend vacation near Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia. 
With little traffic on the road, and next to no light pollution, this is the one of the most active displays of the Aurora Borealis I have witnessed in person.
Yellow Canopy – 50mm Friday
Posted October 21st, 2011 by Chris Wilkinson with Comments Off on Yellow Canopy – 50mm Friday
Another photograph from the Ontario trip last week. A yellow canopy over the sidewalks of Brampton.
1/1600 F4 ISO200 50mm lens.
The road is long
Posted October 14th, 2011 by Chris Wilkinson with Comments Off on The road is long
Great Hobbies is opening a fourth location on October 29th in Mississauga, Ontario, so I’ve been on the road implementing most of their IT. The trip started with a 21 hour, 41 minute drive from Prince Edward Island to Brampton. Coincidentally, my family and I moved to Prince Edward Island in 1990 from Brampton. The rental house is less than 10 kilometers from the old house. I hope to get there before going to the airport today.
Having spent almost 24 hours in a van, this 50mm Friday is inspired by the road.
1/200 F4 ISO400
Introducing 50mm Friday
Posted October 7th, 2011 by Chris Wilkinson with Comments Off on Introducing 50mm Friday
It’s 50mm Friday! The *FIRST* 50mm Friday.
The idea behind 50mm Friday is to select a photograph from my library taken with the least expensive lens a person can buy. It may also be the most challenging and rewarding lens to use. First, there’s no zoom, so you have to “be the zoom”. It’s rewarding because you have to work a little harder to make th photograph.
This is a photograph of a dew-covered spider web, 50mm, F2.8, 1/160s ISO400.
