Tools for Framing

Even though I finished the 365 Portraits project a few weeks ago, I’ve still been shooting a fair amount. Let’s figure half and half between the 5D SLR and the Leica I got on the 31st (I really can’t put it down.  Ask anyone who’s seen me in the last month, I’ve made them all try it). The thing that I’ve noticed is that my photos from the two are different, and I mean this beyond the differences between film and digital, or canon versus... Read More

HAC Session 3

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Tri-X Street

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Melissa in Chelsea

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Once more, with color

Here are a few from today’s walk with the M4. I wanted to try come color film, but only had an old roll of crappy kodak gold 200. It was fun nonetheless. Don’t worry, starting this weekend I’ll get back to more of the normal portraiture that I’m known for. I’m feeling very anxious to start climbing the creative mountain again. It’s time to start really pushing myself and taking chances.    Read More

The Leica M

Ever since I really got interested in photography a couple years ago, there has always been the  Excalibur of cameras, the Leica.  Or more specifically, the Leica M series which was introduced in 1954.  The Leica was the camera of Cartier-Bresson and Capa and Winogrand and a billion other famous photographers.  It’s a small, metal, nearly bulletproof 35mm camera which after over 50 years of revision, has undergone little change. I’ll admit, I’ve... Read More