Saturday, February 28, 2015

Cold, Grey, Rainy, Freezy, Slurpy Saturday. Some personal notes and observations. No Canon versus Nikon wars here. No full frame versus micro four thirds either.

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Joy-Boating on Lady Bird Lake. The image above is not topical and I did not take it today or this week in Austin, Texas. I am sharin...
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Monday, February 23, 2015

Walking downtown on the last day before the big freeze and I saw these birds at twilight. Then they vanished and the light soaked in for the evening.

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I have a tiny suspicion that the lens I used, the Nikon 24-85mm f3.5 to 4.5, has just a pinch of vignetting when it's used near i...
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The race for bigger cameras. Been there, done that, redoing it.

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Image from Leaf A7i file. Many of the more recent arrivals here at the Visual Science Lab like to give me advice like: Try a full fram...
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I finished a project I was doing for myself. It's a site with 100 portraits that I like very much.

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http://kirktucksportraits.blogspot.com http://kirktucksportraits.blogspot.com I always feel like my portfolios are jumbled and mixed....
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Renae in the leather chair at the old studio. An exercise in lighting and expression.

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Renae and I set out to make this photograph because we were experimenting with a bunch of different black and white looks for an upcomin...
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Friday, February 20, 2015

We don't give away free samples but if a client wants to see a test we oblige. Someone wanted to know how big they could go with a D810 file. We sent them some Tiffs.

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Advertising agencies are going through an interesting little adjustment right now. At least the bigger ones with national clien...
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Meanwhile, back on the factory floor...

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The Nikon 105mm f2.5 I had a blast yesterday. I went to a big hotel in Austin, set up cool lights in a large room and made a big windo...
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