Saturday, August 30, 2025

One of those cloudy days in late August just before the weather goes insane and rain pours down. Nice time for a walk. From 105° to 91° in a matter of minutes. So fun.

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I headed back out today to continue getting up to speed with the Thypoch Simera 50mm f1.4 lens. A lovely lens with a bit of vignetting tosse...

Feeling unsafe and subject to the "female gaze" while out testing a new lens today. I should have brought my pepper spray...

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I'm sure this happens to you all the time. You're sitting on a bench because you are too old and feeble to walk very far. You're...
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People aren't as fearful of being photographed as one might imagine. Nor are they as paranoid about people photographing their children as some "experts" suggest. Good intentions are the secret

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  Just Sayin. This young girl wants to be an actor. In fact, she already is. Her mom asked me to photograph her. We made photographs in my s...
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Are most photographers starving to death? Working part time as baristas? Living in their parent's basements?

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 Find out what photographers really make for a living from this research: https://petapixel.com/2025/08/29/how-many-photographers-are-making...
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Clarity on a blog. No one ever wrote here that people are still buying "traditional/formal" portraits from JCPenney's. Some markets die off. Styles change. And that's normal. Uncomfortable for some. But normal.

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I wrote a piece several days ago in response to a blog post by Michael Johnston in which he said that photographic portraiture is dying. Tha...
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Friday, August 29, 2025

Now is the time we write about a funny, tiny 90mm lens that works well on both M and SL cameras. It's cute and light but, as you'll see, sharp.

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  Voigtlander makes a small 90mm lens; the APO Skopar. It's an f2.8 which is probably how they got the size and weight down to a managea...
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Is portrait photography gone? In decline? No longer popular? I guess it all depends.

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It mostly depends on context.  I'm sitting at my desk having just read a blog from a photo commentator who wrote that people are no long...
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