Sunday, November 22, 2020

A few thoughts on loss and learning to live with changes one doesn't like... Oh, and cameras.

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Kenny Williams at Zach. The Ghost of Christmas Past. I have been photographing Christmas plays at Zach Theatre for nearly 30 years. I loved ...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

The residue of yesterday's stroll through the urban Southwest. GH5S - Style.

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The GH5S is such an eccentric camera but maybe that's the way cameras should be. I think it's misguided, both on the part of the mak...
Wednesday, November 18, 2020

I'm on vacation from work. Not on vacation from photography or blogging. There's a distinction to be made.

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It was a great day to swim, eat a fajita taco at Torchy's on 2nd St. and to walk around with a funny hat and a earnest camera.  I'm ...

Unsung heroes of the battle for better photography. No, it's not more dynamic range or faster AF...

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 90% of success is just showing up. Over and over again.  When I first started working as a commercial photographer, after stints as a unive...
Monday, November 16, 2020

So, if full frame cameras are Eldorado then why do I keep passing up the ones I have in the drawer and grabbing the GH series cameras for serious work?

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And, of course, I am inconsistent enough to illustrate this particular post with a photo from a full frame camera.... go figure. This isn...
Sunday, November 15, 2020

Cobbling together my own external SSD drives with a little help from Western Digital and StarTech.

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I use SSDs in an Atomos Ninja V and a Ninja Flame to record high performance video from most of my cameras. When I buy fast SD cards with hi...
Saturday, November 14, 2020

It's fun to waaaay over deliver if you're shooting video; as long as you aren't the one who has to scrub through the footage and edit it...

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  I spread the smaller tripod legs wider to give the camera more support.  This one was just put down in front of the audience, right betwee...