After all this talk of gear I figured I should post at least one picture. My friend Jameka sent me home with a Lensbaby, a funky little lens that lets you move it like a bellows camera, completely messing with the focal plane. Here’s what I shot:

Yeah, I know not terribly exciting. Unfortunately I don’t [...]

And they solved my biggest bitch, namely that they now generate a full-size preview for Adobe DNG files. Why do I care? Well, DNG is designed to cary metadata in it…meaning that I can convert my RAW files on import (imbedding the original RAW, of course) and then have the metadata follow the image through [...]

Today I traded up my mid-range telephoto, moving from a 70-300 f/4-5.6 to an 80-200 f/2.8. The “why” of this decision is pretty simple: at the shorter focal length I gained a stop, at the far end, two. For a guy who pretty much insists on shooting with natural light this is a huge, huge [...]

Up until this weekend I had been using Adobe’s Camera Raw conversion to take my Nikon NEF files and bring them into Photoshop CS2. No more! After doing some experimenting I discovered that the Nikon Raw plugin for Photoshop does a much better job of getting the colors right. It takes a bit longer but [...]

I flew over the holiday. I have come to hate commercial air travel. Full set here.

I was simply blown away by Emilio Morenatti’s site. It really is worth a look. n.b.: You have to click on the word Afghanistan to get into the galery.

Nemo (an Abyssinian) rests after killing a turkey…at least what he could get his paws on

Those are just two more. The full set of 10 can be found at Flickr.

This is the first upload from my film scanning nightmare. My little brother & sister from 20 years ago or so. I still need to do a little dust & scratches clean up, but I’m glad I’ve at least got them into the computer. They’re still my favorite portraits.

So I’ve been scanning in some old negatives for the past three hours. With that amount of time you’d think I’d have done lots of rolls…but, no. Instead I’ve limped through a single 24 frame roll; and I didn’t even capture all 24 frames. This is more than a little frustrating.

I had wanted to catch the moon. I’d seen it on the way home and it was beautiful–big and bright in the sky. Unfortunately, by the time I got home the cold front had started moving in. As I stood out back waiting for the moon to reappear, I could feel the temperature dropping. It [...]

Slightly edited IM conversation:
Sean: that’s a fantastic picture!
bill: of the leaves?
Sean: yeah, you [expletive deleted]
Sean: that’s the shot I’ve been wanting to take for a week!
Sean: a really good fall shot
Sean: god, i hate knowing you
Sorry, it’s a private gallery, so I can’t show it to you. No, really. It is. This is why [...]

I’ve decided that “Because the image matters” is just a wee bit too pretentious. Got an idea? Leave a comment or e-mail me.

For anyone who came looking to post a comment and couldn’t, I apologize. Thanks to the very talented Tamara Nicol (see her work at White Light and Shadows) who pointed out that the comment feature was broken. I’ve fixed it. All you have to do to leave a comment is click on the title of [...]

I took this on the trip to CA. Bill’s posting his first blog entry at 7am, after we’d had all of 4 hours sleep

(headshot, portrait, people)

“Jameka“
A picture from earlier in the summer. One of the better portraits I’ve taken recently.

(walkabout, urban)

“An evening walk”

It’s a wonderful life. Well, except for the fact I need help getting things done [shrug]

Taken over dinner at Lucky 32. Taken with the D2H.

After much searching and consideration, I finally decided on a replacement point-and-shoot camera.

This replaces an absolutely horrible Nikon point-n-shoot that I got with credit card points several years ago. That camera is slow, cumbersome, and generally frustration producing.
So far this Casio has proven to be the right size, quick to shoot, and have all the [...]