I was watching this video on Bruce Gilden’s take on street photography. He basically just jumps in front of people and takes their picture. No permission. No fair warning. Just a flash in their face. Anyway, this led me to investigate what kind of lens works best for “street photography.” As it turns out there [...]
I have an ultraviolet filter for my camera and just recently had to research what exactly filtering ultraviolet out of my pictures does for me. Photo.net has a good explanation of the light spectrum as applies to photograph. Basically, light wavelengths range from longest (red) to shortest (violet). Light longer than red is called, “infrared,” [...]
Superior Film Guy Owning a film camera makes me use the words “exposures” and “shooting” more than I did before. No longer do I “take pictures.” Instead, I “shoot pictures” and “have three of twelve exposures left.” Part of this is because a picture isn’t a picture until you take it. Until then, it’s a [...]
Looking at photographs online is a huge time suck for me. Once I start looking at the flickr Explore – 7 Days Interesting I’m lost for an hour or more. I could flip through the pages endlessly. I recognize that 95 percent of the pictures on there are rubbish, but every once-in-a-while I’ll find a [...]
I own six cameras: 1. Canon PowerShot SD800 IS (link) 2. Casio Exilim 3. Sony MiniDV Handycam 4. iPhone (link) 5. Diana+ (link) 6. Macbook Pro iSight (link) I just got the iPhone and Diana+ this Christmas and have limited experience with both. The Diana+ uses medium format 120 film. I’ve only shot in color. [...]