08/08/2013 | Categories: Event, Landscape, Nature, People | Tags: alone, forest, soldier, trees, woods | Comments Off
08/05/2013 | Categories: Fine art, Landscape, Nature | Tags: blue, emerald, green, Gulf of Mexico, sky, summer, topaz, water, waves | Comments Off
08/02/2013 | Categories: Landscape, Nature | Tags: beach, breeze, sea oats, sky, summer | Comments Off
Another scan of a negative from the Mamiya Twin Lens.
08/01/2013 | Categories: Architecture, Landscape, Nature | Tags: park, stairs, stone, trees | Comments Off
I make my living with state-of-the-art digital cameras but lately I have felt myself missing the experience of shooting on film with my old mechanical cameras. I still have every camera I’ve ever owned and recently I dusted off a couple of them and put them back into service. I have started to shoot again with a select few of my old favorites. Specifically they are a couple of Polaroid bodies, a 35mm SLR and a medium format TLR. This negative is from the medium format body, specifically a 1966 vintage Mamiya C33 Professional Twin Lens Reflex camera. It’s like having a reunion with a long-lost friend.
07/24/2013 | Categories: Black and white, Fine art, Landscape, Nature | Tags: film, forest, medium format, swamp, vintage, woods | Comments Off
07/23/2013 | Categories: Landscape, Nature | Tags: clouds, oasis, sky, trees, water | Comments Off
07/10/2013 | Categories: Black and white, Nature | Tags: flower, plant, water, water lilies | Comments Off
07/01/2013 | Categories: Landscape, Nature | Tags: flower, pond, reflection, summer, trees | Comments Off
06/17/2013 | Categories: Landscape, Nature | Tags: beach, bird, clouds, ocean, reflections, seagull, seaweed, sky, water, waves | Comments Off
06/05/2013 | Categories: Macro, Nature | Tags: color, flowers, leaves, macro | Comments Off
05/24/2013 | Categories: Macro, Nature | Tags: dandelion, flower, macro, seeds | Comments Off
05/03/2013 | Categories: Landscape, Nature | Tags: afternoon, calm, clouds, forest, sky, storm, sunlight, trees, woods | Comments Off
I am often asked why I have so many 50mm lenses and how do I choose which one to use for a shot. First off they are all old (70′s vintage) and really inexpensive to get. Most importantly they each have a different optical design and therefore they each render a different flavor of lens flare and bokeh from one another. When I shoot a scene in backlighting, (and all my friends know that’s what I love to do every chance I get) I pick my lens based on what I want the flare and bokeh to look like. This is a case in point. The lens I used has a damaged front element and I won’t throw it away because I know it does this when I use it right. You may find it hard to believe but there hasn’t been a single thing done to this image in post processing. This is exactly what was produced in-camera because of my lens choice, the lighting, and the subject matter.
05/01/2013 | Categories: Fine art, Landscape, Lens flare, Nature | Tags: bokeh, field, flowers, gold, lens flare, SOOC | 1 Comment »
04/30/2013 | Categories: Nature | Tags: burrowing owl, owl | 1 Comment »
This a test shot I made of a setup I was putting together while helping a student in my studio the other day.
04/18/2013 | Categories: Fine art, Macro, Nature | Tags: bud, drop, flower, macro, refraction, yellow | 1 Comment »
04/02/2013 | Categories: Macro, Nature | Tags: bromeliad, flower, pink | Comments Off
04/01/2013 | Categories: Nature | Tags: color, flower, nature, plant, water, water lily | Comments Off
