I really have not had a whole lot of shooting time with the new itty bitty camera yet. Too distracted with other things. Maybe I’ll make it out of the house this evening. Of course I have snapped off a few stupid ugly shots of nothing just to see how it works. I can tell you that I have no hesitation shooting this thing at ISO 800 and not much at ISO 1600. Higher speeds are more of a must have the shot at all cost affairs – they...
Hmmm, maybe that’s not a good title. How about world’s least informative article. I am lost here, I have no idea why I even bother reading things from the “big names” in just about anything any more. Here is an “article” by PDN interviewing a well known fashion photographer. Take a glance – actually read it, don’t be lazy it will only take you about 15 seconds. Okay – here is the quiz. What did you learn? I hope not much, if you did god help us all. I...
Our friend Kamil, Phd candidate, Aperture user?, 5D shooter, and proud new E-P1 owner is coming to the USA. He wants to know two things? What to shoot in NYC and where to go to see some good photography in NYC? Is there a short list? I certainly have my list but I never do, see, or shoot the same thing twice in NYC. The pic at the top shows a guy that I bought some photos/art from the 4 matched original crappy framed images on the top – the...
That was quick – like two days. Anyway the UPS man showed up and here it is. I tore it out of the box slammed the battery in and guess what? No SD cards – yes I know you have to buy them, I ordered a couple of 8GB cards the same day, maybe they’ll be here later. I did scrounge up an ancient 256MB SD card at the bottom of a drawer and shot of couple of grab shots to make sure it worked. So here is my...
Let me say if you are a photographer and you are not using Moo products you have to be crazy. It doesn’t matter if you are the family photographer, a top of the game, wedding shooter, commercial, travel, landscape, whatever. Use them. For that matter even if you are not a photographer they are amazing. Come-on 50 or 100 high quality images with two sides of printing for 20 bucks depending on what size you order? Just do it. Okay here are some things to think about if you...
I don’t know how many of you track with matters on professional photography, be it art, photojournalism, wedding, portrait, commercial, fashion, event, whatever. I certainly do you see I am interested because I used to produce images for commercial purposes. I am glad I decided to get out when I did. I got out for all the right reasons, meaning I got in for all the wrong reasons. The biggest thing that I did not understand is that I loved photographing things I was interested in and passionate about...
I have been a big big fan of David Alan Harvey’s work ever since I saw it in NatGeo when I was a kid. To tell you the truth he is sort of a long time hero of mine. His images speak to me a whole lot more than most. Never met him – we travel in way different circles, even when I was doing commercial work we were so far apart in the work we did it’s not funny. To be very candid he has always been sort...
Remember I was looking for a small camera to jamb in the bag with my Leica M kit? I was thinking of a D5000, an Olympus 4:3, etc. Well after a few weeks of vacillating and fence sitting. I decided to get on with it and bought a Olympus E-P1. Yea I know I was gravitating towards the E-PL1 because as we all know that newer equals better in the digital world. I will tell you how I decided on the E-P1 and how it holds up in reality...
You can’t tell from the comments but the most popular post last week by far was the tiny little post on window light that I put up on the site. This is all stuff that “we” already know but tend to forget about and don’t practice it as time goes by and little TTL flashes creep into the mix and experiments with HDR cram our brains, and, and. I thought it would be useful to every once in a while call a time out for all that and get...
I ran across a series of posts today about the results of shooting JUST a film Leica with one lens and even if you never intend on doing the Leica thing or the film thing it is a great read. This is a series of comments from people that took that Leica suggestion of shooting a film Leica with one lens for a year (it’s now a year or so later). This is the original post that make the suggestion, and this.. is some other commentary along the way....
