Photography

Thanks to the guys on in the forums of dpreview.com who pointed me to rugift.com where they have decent prices on old russian lenses. In particular I’m interested in the Zenitar 16mm. It has a neat look based on what I’ve seen, isn’t horribly fisheyed like the Peleng 7mm (which I’m also interested in getting […]

Yeap, spring is here. Just like over at OnFocus there are crocuses popping up next to (and through) the driveway. The waterfall was taken up at cascade falls on sunday. I couldn’t stand the thought of being in the house on such a nice day and practically bolted up there (except for the 30 minute

A bit ago Cat5 managed to scam an HP S20 film scanner for me from his work. Mucho thanks. The software and scanner is older, but still 2400dpi and still seeming to work pretty well so far. So while this weekend was supposed to have been a scanning extravaganza, a combination of “other stuff” and

Sunday I went up to the local abbey for some picture taking. Maybe not the best day, but they had visiting hours from 2-4 so I had a chance to wander around a bit and check it out and take some pictures in the church… And around the grounds. Just as a note the middle

So photography class was last night. I eagerly waited since last week to get my first roll of black and white film back to look at. I was really excited to see if some of the effects and images that I wanted actually turned out. So I get to class and pull out the package

Random Linkage…. a nice article on How to Make Great Photographs.

My neck strap for my *ist-D is great, but starts to chafe after a day of carrying it around. I found this while looking for an alternative. This satisfies the “carry around in your hand all the time” requirement… Prostrap also looks interesting.

A good quick and dirty intro to some of the ins and outs of black and white filters. More all over google of course.

This Noise Reduction Tool Comparison looks far more scientific than mine.

So I’ve been doing some playing with a few different digital photography related programs and computer stuff, and figured I’d throw out some info. Might help someone somewhere along the way. I took a photo a while back of Firefly’s hand on a plasma ball at Science World. The image was taken at ISO 1600