Sometimes you just nail the exposure. I find that when that happens to me, it was really just perfect lighting. Ironically, yesterday I posted about the importance of getting the best possible exposure as the top priority. Today, I went down the Reef Bay trail to some 1,000 year old…
It was a dark and stormy night… For those of you who remember the Peanuts cartoon strips, that was the beginning of every story Snoopy wrote on his typewriter, atop his doghouse. In this case, it was a foggy, perfect photo morning. I had been watching for a good…
The Fuji X100s continues to maze me in terms of dynamic color output in JPEGs. Most folks shy away from using anything but RAW images and there is some safety in that approach. However, for simple shots and images that stay equal to or under the 13″x19″ size, JPEGs from…
The Fuji X100s handles high ISO’s very well and produces superb JPEG’s that can be easily printed to large formats. I have always been a fan of RAW images, but keeping high volumes of RAW images, especially uncompressed images, can quickly eat disk space and cause backup nightmares. Thus, I…
No, not another review of the Fuji X100s. Just some real life examples that confirmed why I bought the camera to begin with. This series includes my father-in-law’s old barn. This was used to house equipment for their small farm from his childhood. There was an old red Cub tractor…
After a few weeks shooting daily with the Monochrom, I have begun to remember some of the film training I have not used in a number of years. I spent a cloudy morning on the greenway looking for suitable lighting, contrast and subjects. This is some of what I found…
We spent several nice days in the middle of China Town in San Francisco during the summer of 2012. It was a great test for our family as we travelled around San Francisco and back and forth to Yosemite without renting a car. Public transportation in California is superb. I…
Bailey was MY cat … I guess you could really say, I was Bailey’s human. Bailey was patient with me. He always waited for me to sit down and get comfortable. Then he’d look and take a moment to survey my seat. Finally, he would hop on up and nestle…
Where we live, getting snow in March that actually causes school to be cancelled is a rare occurrence. More interesting is the high temperature five days later will be 70 degrees farenheit. Weather! Here is an image of a location I have been watching during my daily commute that past…
Last night we had a rare lunar conjunction with both Venus and Jupiter. As astronomy goes, light from the object you are viewing is the most important next to clear skies. Venus happens to be the brightest object in the sky next to the sun and then the moon. Jupiter…