Somerville at dusk

Japan Scans – set #3

One last small set of scans from Japan.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/billwadman//sets/72157616809298067

I’ve got one more roll to get developed next week, but I’m done with everything I’ve got right now.

Now I’ve got to cull the 122 that I scanned down to 25 or so for a show at the Red Horse Cafe in June.  <sigh>

Japan Scans – set #2

Here’s set 2 of my photos from Japan.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/billwadman/sets/72157616477543783/

Japan Scans – set #1

Ok, here’s my first set of 50 images from my recent trip to Japan.  Due to the number I’ve decided to host them on my flickr account that I never really use. So feel free to comment here or there.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/billwadman/sets/72157616408174078/

Scanning film is a giant pain in the ass and very time consuming.  I spent all day yesterday and got through 9 of 24 rolls of film, so there is a lot still to process.  More to come in the coming days.

They are in no chronological order, just the first 9 rolls I put in sheets, and really more about fun and interesting things I saw than the normal portraits I do.

Let me know what you think.

Press Stuff

The printing company that’s going out of business after 100 years is at it again.  I walked out today to find stacks of type trays out on the sidewalk awaiting a truck to take them away. Ran upstairs, grabbed my camera, and voila

Prospect Park

Two from lunch

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 get a chance to actually USE the computer since the last post and so far so yummy. Seriously, it’s delightful. For example, in photoshop (which launches in half the time), if you were using a healing brush to remove a hair across someones face, on my old machine the computer would take a second or so to calculate before refreshing.  Now it’s instantaneous. When I lift the pen off the tablet, it’s done.  Super.  It’s like drawing on paper instead of a computer, it’s become that much more transparent. The same goes for most of the filters that I use, much improvement. I plan to do some real shooting tomorrow, so we’ll see how it holds up with that kind of abuse. So far I’m very happy with the upgrade. Definitely worth the squeeze.

Here’s the result from a raw file I took a couple weeks ago:

Subway floor

9th Street at Night