Of Love and Lenses...

The funny thing about love is how much work it actually is, it is not, as it would seem, just fun, and pleasure. As I sat, a day or two ago cleaning my cameras sensor, it came to me, that the passion I have for photography is alot like the love of a relationship. It takes commitment to do the things that are humdrum, and boring (or worrisome and frightening). If I as a photog never cleaned my sensor, never capped my lenses, never protected my equipment from harmful environments, I would not stay a photographer for long! Similarly as the guy in a relationship, it is my duty, destiny and desire, to protect, cherish, and care for the one I love.

As I compose a picture in my viewfinder, as a hundred-no a thousand things come together, to create an image that is wonderful to behold, I appreciate the fact that the resulting image did not create itself, nor as such, should I assume that love can be had through the mere desire of it.

The beauty that is, is a reward to be had, but only when I have followed through on my part.
Give a woman the love, honor, commitment and respect that is necessary, and the result will be truly beautiful.


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DOF

Is it good, is it bad? no it is Depth Of Field! Go here to calculate to your hearts content.

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EOS-1D Mark III

Wow!!

A Google Assist

There is a problem with Gigapixel cameras, namely storage, and with storage- sorting.
but Google to the rescue!!

Vision correction for fisheye

Interesting new lens
Here A corrected fisheye, of course there are security possiblities, but I believe it may find its way to the more interesting arena of consumer based cameras.

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A word on sharpness

There is one type of person who spends their time writing (or dreaming) of the adventures in life and then there are the people who are too busy doing those adventurous thing to write about them. I previously was the former, I am currently latter and I attempting to write a bit.

A word about sharpness, I was recently reading an article about he didn't like the sharpness of canons SLR images even with the best and brightest of there lens lineup.

He was saying something about sticking with a semi-pro HP something or other. I regard this as foolishness. If you are fortunate/unfortunate enough to have a point&shoot if you can possibly change the sharpness+/- set it to the lowest possible setting in doing so you are making it possible to enlarge you photo to a greater size without all the jaggies. if you have the in camera sharpness set on high you are putting distinct limits on your photos.

more on this later

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(maybe:)

Long Time, No Post.

I have had a rather busy summer. Lots of photoging, less blogging. but I survived to tell the tale, that I can live with out blogging... (I knew that any way) but it is a remarkable thing to go from 3 hours a day on the computer to around 1 hour a week.

But I am looking around for a new camera, as the one I have is old, developing small cracks in important places and I want a new one.

It will have to be a Canon, nothing too big, nothing too small, good shape, and perhaps(but not necessarily) a full frame sensor.

5D, 20D, 10D, 400D, 1D,...?

Digital Rangefinder

Another "Film Cameras are better" excuse bites the dust...Epsons new Digital Rangefinder Epson® R-D1

CCD

Here are a few pics of a camera sensor I was experimenting with. It is pretty small but looks neat... enjoy

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THE FUTURE

Alright I know I should try to be humble about this but I just read about about a record breaking CCD chip with 111 million pixel resolution. Here is a link.

I am quite sure that it cost a pretty penny, however as the world shifts to digital, you medium and large format photogs out there be prepared to change, Or face the realization that you and you antiquated systems will be lost in the sands of time...


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I have over the last few years been doing exhaustive testing on the freeware image software "Gimp" as well as a hack version called "Gimpshop"(very closely resembling Photoshop in style).

As is well known, I do not generally go for image enhancers of any kind. (If you need to enhance, you did something wrong)

There is I believe a place for everything and there are times that an enhancer not only should be used, but it must be used. (this is of course under the assumption that you are going do better next time)

This last month I received a test copy of Photoshop in the mail from Adobe. I have always had an attitude about Photoshop, I have seen too many Photogs go by the wayside because they relied on Photoshop to fix their mistakes, and instead of improving their skills they slowly sunk from Photog to PhotoRepairGuy. Sad. Real Sad.

Never the less having used Gimp for a couple years now I thought testing PhotoShop against Gimp would be useful.

For the last three weeks I have been putting PS through its paces and I am here to tell you that Photoshop CS2 creamed Gimp (as well as gimpshop) and in that process I gained a bit of respect for this software...


WARNING
use only as a tool or you will start taking shortcuts , devolution of any accomplishments will occur and skills that you may have had will begin to die...

Remember me saying something about designing a Gigapixel camera? well here is a link to a project that will use a 3.2Gp camera...

The future is coming large format...


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Buttercups

  

Class and style

I believe that there are very few ways of being poor(Don't confuse being broke with being poor) and yet still be "classy", a student or an artist being perfect examples, I, being both, understand the difficulty to keep up with style.

I was doing a wedding a few weeks ago where the dress style was nice-but not rigid, I was wearing acceptable clothing but many people there were not exactly "dressed up" for the occasion. after perusing the results of my work I wondered-why am I the one spruced up here? I know professionalism would not allow anything less, but thinking over the fact it seem ironic that the guy who is behind the camera should fit the situation better than most of the subjects...

Anyway I'll handle it and continue to be classy...

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A recent trend

Hi there, I've been busy with non-photog stuff, (I do live a life outside of my computer.

Ok, down to business. A recent trend that I have noticed (and finally decided to comment on) is the use of infrared technology to get good pics.

Go ahead and use infrared as a tool, but don't rely on it.
too many wannabe-photogs are relying on infrared to get pics that look neat, but are not using their skills. Just because it looks different to the beholder w/Infrared, does not make it interesting to the people looking at the end product.

Sharpen your skill(or get some) and use as a tool, an asset, but do not rely on it to get your pics...