The Storm Breaks

The Storm Breaks [200/366], a photo by timsackton on Flickr.

200/366

I had some ideas for a picture to commemorate the arbitrary round number of 200 pictures, but when I saw this scene from the 5th floor of the building where I work this evening I immediately ran to get my camera and all my other ideas went out the window. We finally had a torrential downpour that cooled things down considerably, and just after the storm passed I was rewarded with this scene.

Still, to commemorate Day 200, I thought some reflection on the past 200 days would be appropriate. So here are some stats on my pictures:
1) By far my most used lens for this project are my 50mm prime (100 pictures exactly) and my 28mm prime (71 pictures), with only a handful of pictures with each of my other lenses (9 with my 10-22mm, 10 with my 17-85mm, 7 with 70-300mm, and 3 with a 17-55mm f/2.8 I borrowed from my brother).
2) I have taken pictures in 18 cities in 5 countries (France - 4, Ireland - 6, Italy - 8, Vatican City - 1, and United States - 181).
3) Not surprisingly, most of my pictures are taken near either my home or my work: 74 at home, 18 in my neighborhood, and 39 around where I work. Another 34 are in Boston and the inner suburbs, with only 9 in more distant parts of Massachusetts and 7 from out of state.
4) I mostly post color pictures, but 18 of my shots have been black and white (plus possibly a few more I forgot to tag as such). In addition, 5 of my shots have been HDR (but of the naturalistic kind), and 5 have been triptychs or collages of some kind.
5) 42 of my shots have people in them; of those, 7 are selfies, 25 are of my son, 6 are of other family members, and 4 have strangers in them (although none of those are portraits, all are candid shots usually from a distance).
6) Besides people, I've shot a lot of buildings (53, 6 of which are pictures of Memorial Hall at Harvard University), food (51, 11 of which are of booze of some kind), and plants (17), but I've also taken 9 pictures of sculptures, 4 pictures of animals, 7 pictures of fences (but no benches), and 3 pictures of my computer.
7) I mostly shoot in landscape orientation (149 shots); of the remainder, 32 are portrait and 19 are square.
8) The widest aperture I've shot at is f/1.8 (18 photos); the narrowest is f/22 (3 photos); the most common is f/3.5 (20 photos, but there are lots with 10-20 photos).
9) I've taken 10 shots with a shutter speed slower than 1 second, and 14 shots with a shutter speed faster than 1/1000 second.
10) I have learned more in the past 200 days about photography than in the entire previous four years I've owned a DSLR. Thanks, everybody, for sharing the journey with me and teaching me more than I ever expected to learn. No time for commenting tonight, but I'll be back tomorrow to catch up. Onto the final 166 days!


Taken Jul 18, 2012 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
¹⁄₁₀₀ sec at f/6.3, ISO400, no flash.
Lens: EF28mm f/1.8 USM @ 28 mm