One of the issues that comes up a lot in the Pentax Talk forum is the much-lambasted topic of “exposure latitude”…. how much range from dark to light can a digital camera (the *ist-D in particular) grab compared to $other_camera_or_system. Someone posted about this again tonight and one of the responses pointed to Is slide […]
Slide Vs Negative Vs Digital Read Post »
Coming home today from a fantastic salmon dinner at my parents place I had to pull off the road between Maple Ridge and Mission and snap some shots of the sun tumbling out of the sky. The road I pulled off next to had a cornfield in it which looked neat to my eye, but
Sunset Happy Fun Time Read Post »
In my running around today I did snap a few non-sucky shots. May as well post them as it’s late already here, and I still have lots to do to get ready for tomorrow’s trip up to Clinton.
Did my first sensor cleaning this evening after getting back from a hectic evening. I was out taking some (more) moon pics when I noticed that in a couple there was a big spot on the image. I checked the lens and saw it wasn’t anything visible there, but it was pretty dark so I
Images from the concert I mentioned yesterday. All taken with a F1.7/50mm. Here’s the crowd gathered before the sun went down. Read on for more….
Mission Rankin Concert Images Read Post »
A while back I mentioned Orbit1 as a good site to check out on the daily photoblog run. I of course forgot to put it in my bookmarks so I haven’t visited there lately. On a note from houserdesign’s site (pointing out this way cool collage) I did a run and found not only more
Bringing out the Big Guns Read Post »
Every once and a while I read something or find a link to something that really, really pisses me off. Every day I’m exposed through various websites and TV shows to politics from my neighbors to the south, the good old US of A, land of the free and home of the brave. They’re talking
Dangers of Photography in the Land of the Free Read Post »
As I write this I can hear Firefly in the living room admonishing Zoon and Patches for fighting directly where she’s cutting and working with fabric. Threats of “no fish for a week!”, “don’t do that!” and “claws in!” are falling of deaf, furry ears. Apparently any place that a person is working on something
Sewing Time Cat Fun Read Post »
Playing around with taking panoramas using a vertical format to get a really wide angle view and this is what I got sunday night. Stitched together from three images. Click for 1024 70kb larger image. [ 1/90 sec at F8, minor post-processing ]