Canon 1Ds Mk II, Canon EF 50mm 1.4. The camera was set to Av mode where I control the aperture and the camera chooses my shutter speed. I set the aperture to f/2.8 to get relative sharpness all around. I shot this directly overhead so as not to have any shallow depth of field. Also shooting at larger apertures got rid of the vignetting. f/4 would have done a better job but at this time of the day, light was limited. The sun had dropped behind the trees before I attempted this shot. I dialed down the exposure compensation to -2/3 because it was important to me to expose the white golf balls correctly. If I kept the exposure bias on zero, then the artificial turf would be quite brighter, over exposed even, while the golf balls would simply be unrecognizably blank and lacking any detail.
Pentax 67, SMC 67 55mm 1:4, SMC 67 105mm 1:2.4, Kodak Portra 160NC 120.
I found this film at my local 99¢ Only Store.  It’s called Memories with an ISO speed of 200.  I knew this was not professional but I wondered how it would compare to name brands.  I was hesitant but on the other hand it’s so inexpensive it could come in handy for teaching film photography.  I used it on my visit to Ojai, California, a city just east of Santa Barbara. And in the early morning before the hustle and bustle I walked a mile along Ojai Avenue photographing the charm of the small town.  The film isn’t bad at all. I shoot color negative film at half the ISO rating so I set my Olympus OM-2 at ISO 100 in this case.  When I got it back from the lab, the images came out nicely but a little underexposed.  With a little brightening and a little saturation in Photoshop, the results were really good.  I think I’ll have to shoot this film at ISO 50 next time.  Not bad for everyday picture taking, but it’s way better than most small digital point and shoots.  A little footnote: I had this film processed and scanned at Target.
