Japan – the camera dilema.
Ok, so I’m leaving for Japan in a couple weeks and have been thinking about the camera question. I need a break from shooting tons of digital stuff, and I’ve been told by my friend Jonathan who lives over there that I can get film, so I’ve decided to bring a film camera. Just one film camera. Which begs the question, ‘Which film camera?’ I’ve got two options in mind, Hasselblad medium format or Leica M 35mm format. Both… Read More
Two from lunch
Leslie
Low Light Considerations
A reader wrote me an email a couple days ago asking me to write about low-light photography, so here it goes. I shoot in low light almost all of the time. In fact, it came as a revelation a couple years ago when I realized how much freaking light you need to take good pictures most of the time. Figure you’ve got 400 speed film and want to stop down to f/5.6 or so to get some depth of field, and then you’re hand holding the camera and shooting people, so… Read More
Self-Portrait 090303
testing out the new 85mm. Read More
Intel i7 Photoshop/Lightroom Workstation – Part Three “The Juice”
So I waited at my place all day for UPS to deliver the two fans that will complete my machine and let me close up the side and make all of the wires pretty, but alas it was on a truck for delivery from 4am this morning and yet at 8PM they claimed they couldn’t deliver due to the weather. Sounds like a “Dog ate my homework” to me. Anyway. In The Girl Next Door one of the characters says “Make sure the juice is worth the squeeze”. I did… Read More
Intel i7 Photoshop/Lightroom Workstation – Part Two
Sorry for the lack of posts the past few days. I, along with my lovely assistant HA, spent them doing computer stuff and getting my new i7 machine built. I thought I’d share a couple of photos and some observations of the process for those that are interested. I’m still installing everything and testing and whatnot, but at first glance, this thing is FAST. I’ve overclocked the processor from it’s nominal speed of 2.66GHz up to 3.6GHz. So basically… Read More
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