Category: Photography

The weather in Portland today is dreadful. It’s frigid. It’s dim. It’s foggy. Not in any way photography weather. But still. I had to try. I took a short walk today and took photographs, mostly of trees and walls. I’m not proud of my initial results but they did give me a chance to learn [...]

My new Canon 5D Mark II came yesterday. The one I’ve been saving for for months. It’s here. It’s been essentially dark or freezing since it arrived, so I have not had time to get outside and really run it through its paces. But I will say one thing: DAMN. I wish I had better [...]

A quick break from end-of-year musings to revisit a slightly more real world. I had an interesting conversation with Pete Forsyth at the Green Dragon during Beer and Blog last Friday (I know, that’s a mouthful; I don’t talk that much about the tech junkets I go on, but they are frequent and often cleverly-named). [...]

I’m not sure if this is an exhilirating feeling of focus or a weird obsession, but I’m worrying my way down the path of saving for the camera I want. I found some shit to sell. This was hard, as I mostly get rid of (read: give away) stuff I don’t want, but I brought [...]

I’m going to try to make buying the camera a real goal. That means being fiscally creative and making some sacrifices. I still have a first-generation iPhone. I’m going to sell it. Even if I have to–gulp–do it on eBay. Let me know if you want to buy it from me before I list it. [...]

Oh, dear. It has happened. Canon has released a successor to the 5D and it is everything I have ever wanted in a digital SLR. Full-frame. Good ISO range. 21+MP (although resolution has never been my focus). Full HD video at 1920 x 1080. It’s not much to look at–in fact, I’ll probably have to [...]

Two green photos for you!

Two more photos from the Steens trip, these taken with a borrowed Bronica medium format camera. You might say: “Oh, look at that cool tilt-shift effect on the hotel photo, where intriguing bits are displaying remarkably shallow depth of field.” Sadly, that’s a scanning issue. My film isn’t mounted, so when I put it in [...]

The following is from an email I just typed up for a friend who asked about some of my recent photographs. It turned into a bit of a…well, you decide: – I take pictures with Fuji Velvia 50 ISO slide film; have been doing so for a decade. Velvia is inherently: saturated color, gorgeous at [...]

A few more photo highlights of the Steens Trip: I urge you to go look at all of them on Flickr. Or, go play with them on a map at loc.alize.us.