50 days of shooting 50mm

i think its just a tough shot to work with, shooting into the sun, underexposed/exposed for sky, and a bit too wide to really even see the birds well, but its what i got when i pulled over my car and ran at the birds to try to get something

next day edit: in reflection i think i actually did Pretty Good with the color edit

maximum texture

sooo many of my shots got fucked up by harsh red LEDs ; _ ; (this one turned out good tho)

got intentionally lost on a trail

im gettin kinda good at manual focus

in the span of 7 days I photo'd a rave, a noise show, then helped a friend tour, driving 5 hours there, photod that show, now im home and editing all my shots for that rave cuz I told em I'd be done this weekend hehe.

here's another out of focus type shot, but a different vibe from the last

i got an autofocus lens to make my life on the job easier, the nikon 35mm f/2D.
I'd say like, 10-20% of the time the autofocus noticeably failed, but for the rest of the time it's really made my workflow easier. I can actually shoot at wide apertures and have people in focus! No more guessing my focus in the darkness and no more tight apertures resulting in high ISOs!

In hindsight, I realized I should be shooting with autofocus on shutter disabled and just use the AF button and take over the focus with manual at the soonest sign that the AF was crapping out. This is the theme of my rave assignments, it's 5 hours of grinding photos, I learn a lot fast both during and after the shoot.

Luckily, a few of the times AF failed me turned out to be fun shots, like this one.

Not settled yet on a consistent editing theme for em all so this one is edited pretty neutrally.