Saturday, January 30, 2021

Two Friends Talking on the Phone. One Trying to Rationalize a New Camera and the Other Trying to Talk Him Out of Buying it.

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  Long time readers of my blog can be forgiven for thinking I buy every camera I see or hold. I have been through an enormous number of came...
Friday, January 29, 2021

City portrait in black and white. Amazing little camera, that Fuji X100V. (From a walk today with a close friend).

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Unicorn on Sixth Street. I wish, just for me, that camera reviewers would spend a lot less time trying to write and a lot more time shooting...

Seems like a growing swell of people want to accompany me on romps through Austin's quiet downtown. Hmmm.

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  Portrait for the cover of my first book, "Minimalist Lighting: Professional Techniques for Location Photography" published in 20...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

Taking a first journey with the Sigma 65mm f2 DG DN, I-series, Contemporary lens. Love at first focus.

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I've been waiting impatiently for this lens to arrive in the market. I've always liked shooting with the 50mm focal length but on oc...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

An interesting day back at work. And two interesting camera announcements.

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Reykjavik, Iceland I packed up my bags last night and left them in a small pile next to my cart, just inside the door to my studio/office. T...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Sony shaves, tapers and swings for the fences. A jumbled, mixed sports metaphor when I really just meant to say that Sony has introduced an interesting, new camera.

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Fuji X100V. In Johnson City. If you haven't been over on YouTube today you might have missed the newest blast of information from Sony t...
Monday, January 25, 2021

A quick but happy assessment of an old lens that rivals any of the new zooms covering this focal length. If you want to use one of these you'll have to learn to manually focus.

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You'll have to take my word for it but at 100% on a 5K Retina monitor  you can see, clearly, the rivets on the metal bridge. It's ac...