It is not very often that I get to take advantage of historic weather events. I am usually working or in class, or somehow otherwise occupied. Not today! Today I was blessed with being scheduled off and, it just so happened that a historic snow storm blew into North Texas, dumping a whopping 7 inches of snow so far, and it hasn’t stopped yet! Of course, I had no choice but to take advantage of this rare opportunity, and boy did I ever! My first stop was a visit to the awesome, amazing, wonderful folks over at Arlington Camera to rent the Canon 50mm f/1.2L lens to shoot with for the day. It was a good rental decision, as the lens never left my camera body. It is quite a breathtaking lens. I enjoyed it so much, in fact, that I am planning on purchasing the lens later this year so I can shoot with it all the time. As a matter of fact, I intend to only shoot with it once I purchase it, since the focal length is just perfect for all the things that I shoot. It will definitely be a worthwhile investment.
Back to today, I captured a ton of photos, and below is one of my favorites. I experimented a lot with trying to capture falling snow flakes against a completely blurred background; hence the reason for renting the 50mm f/1.2L in the first place. After a lot of trial and error, I finally found the sweet spot concerning focus and depth of field. Of course, at an aperture of 1.2, there really is no depth of field anyway! The below photo is, again, processed in black and white. I have some color captures from today, but there is something about black and white that just keeps screaming out to me lately. Besides, snowy scenes tend to look much better in black and white anyway, in my opinion. Enjoy!
