I recently got asked for a camera recommendation for someone who might want to get into photography. I view this question as a pretty simple one — it doesn’t matter which camera you use. Photography is the art/science of capturing light, and almost any camera will do a decent job of it. I remember owning …
Category Archives: Photography
France 2009 photos
I finally got around to posting the photos from our trip to France on my Flickr photo stream. I didn’t bother editing the photos at all, otherwise I’d be posting them to the photo blog. Let me know which photos you like, and I’ll edit them for the photoblog. You can see them here. There …
TOP: Get and use a Leica
Over at The Online Photographer blog there’s been a bit of a ruckus over their suggestion to spend a year using a Leica to develop photo skills. I think their suggestion is valid, and mostly a reasonable (if somewhat inconvenient) thing to do. You can find the initial and follow-up posts here: The Leica as …
Of photo club and practice
Last week, I managed to swing by a Terrapin Photo Club Meeting (#60). I had a pleasant enough time, though I was struck by two things: Man, these people are young. There were surprisingly few photos of people I know taking pictures of people is difficult. You have to overcome the inherent sense of voyeurism, …
Shooting in Raw
You should use your digital camera’s raw shooting mode. It’s a simple statement, but many don’t use raw mode while making photographs. Their primary excuse seems to be that using JPEG mode requires less space on (expensive) flash memory cards. But the simple fact of the matter is that unless you’re shooting in raw you’re …
Strobist: Off-Camera Flash Boot Camp
For those shutterbugs among you who don’t read Stobist; he’s starting a tutorial series on flash photography soon. Head over there and check it out – your photography will improve if you follow along!
Frugal Photography
I’ve was thinking aobut putting up a blog devoted to DIY/cheap photographic equipment. It would link to the large number of DIY projects already on the web, and I’d add my own personal thoughts and ideas. I’m not positive it would be much of a resource though. If anyone’s interested in reading such a blog, …
Photographic Equipment
As some might have noticed on the photoblog, I’m back taking pictures again – abeit at a much slower rate than before. Truthfully, I’ve managed to reach a new part the cycle of photographic equipment insanity. Common wisom is that novice photographers go through several stages of gadget lust before getting to a point where …
Color Correction Woes
I’ve developed a nice little workflow over on the photoblog; My entire editing process happens in the sRGB IEC61966-2.1 color space, and the final JPEG that goes online has the correspondng ICC profile embedded within. Recently, I realized that none of the thumbnail images had color profiles; the result was a small difference, but one …
Setting up a small darkroom
Justin Ouellette from Chromogenic.net has very cool directions for setting up a minimal darkroom (negatives only) in your bathroom. I did this for a while in my old apartment, and it was a great way to save on black and white developing, as well as being a good segue into a full darkroom. I would …