Confined to bed does not mean I can’t continue to play around with different compositions and the two cameras residing with me using the natural lighting in my cell, er, room using the props available to me. In this case …
Tag: Black and white photography
Six Screws a Screwing…
is what I got for Christmas instead of “six geese a laying.” Now, I’ve never been quite sure what six geese a laying are doing, but whatever it may be, it must be better than six screws a screwing into …
Night Lights
I’ve written before how much I like shooting at night. I don’t mean dusk, early evening, sunset–I mean DARK. Nothing but the moon and whatever other artificial light may exist. (Let’s remember that the moon is dark except for the …
“Views From Within A Room” A Fractured Ankle Christmas Story
No surprise that dislocating your ankle and fracturing your tibia on Christmas Eve morning sucks. Being confined to one room downstairs on a pull-out daybed is no way to ring in the holiday. Worse, however, is having all your cameras …
“The Shining” Examples of the X1D 50c.
Hallways in the Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, VA. The black and white tones and shades embedded in these larger files not to mention the resolution at higher ISO’s makes the X1D’s raw files fun to develop. As for its ergonomics, …
Rated X
When the Fuji X100 was first released I bought one. It was my first attempted foray back into photography with a legitimate digital camera. Since then, the X100 has gone through many updates. The current version is the X100f. The …
Raw From Testing Raw Processors
Maybe I will go back to film. For all the many advantages of digital over film when it comes to developing your shots, you can drown in the complexities and choices. Because chaos binges on chaos, I decided that switching …
WTHIGO
For the last three weeks I’ve been uttering this to myself numerous times a day. It’s all Google’s fault. Really, isn’t that true for just about everything? Google was not indexing my previous “lensflare” site. Months and it’s internet crawling …
Then these happened…
I was all set to do a post about perspective, which is ironic because most (all) who know me would say I lack it. These two shots were taken hundreds of miles apart on consecutive mornings. Yesterday and today. Sans …
“Everything looks worse in black and white…” Paul Simon
During my first foray into photography, I vehemently disagreed with Mr. Simon. With all due respect to Mr. Simon, I still do. Famous photographers shoot almost exclusively in black and white while others exclusively in color. I like both, depending …