Saturday, November 29, 2014

The most boring part of my business. The back up. The back up. The back up.

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Just mixing it up. Garrido's Restaurant. A measured response. Garrido's Restaurant. I used to back up in two different w...
Friday, November 28, 2014

Real World Testing an Old Lens Just for Fun. And because it was such a nice day outside.

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It was in the seventies here today with bright sun and sparse clouds.  I've done my AF fine tuning with the AF lenses but I want...

Sharp versus SHARP. Taking time to fine tune the AF performance on each camera.

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I got lots and lots of great feedback on the last blog. The one about diffraction and sensor size. And one of the things that commenters...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Trying zany stuff during a photo shoot of "A Christmas Carol" for Zach Theatre.

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Wouldn't it be cool, I thought, to have one camera and one lens with which to cover an entire musical dress rehearsal? So, I look...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

I'd like to open the floor to a technical discussion that's of interest to me lately: Pixel size, diffraction and apparent sharpness (or acuity).

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I think everyone who has upgraded from a camera that has a resolution was just a little higher than the resolution of their desktop moni...

VSL waves (with sadness) goodbye to the K5600 Lighting HMIs. A wonderful continuous light source for portraits, video interviews and a lot more...

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Luke. I was sad when I finished boxing up the loaner HMI lights from K5600 and dropping them off at the local Federal Express ...
Monday, November 24, 2014

Making color digital images work in black and white.

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Noellia. ©2011 Kirk Tuck I used a canned DXO Film Pack 3.0 Agfapan 25 profile for this one.  Shot with a Mamiya MF 29 megapixel ...