Archive for the 'Photography' Category
Backorder Nightmare
Last night I had a dream that I checked my email (I know, intense) and Adorama had shipped my fisheye lens. It was extremely disappointing to actually check my email today and see that yes, it is still on backorder, and they have no idea when Nikon will be getting them out to distributors.
I checked [...]
Dammit, Nikon!
It has now been 30 days since I ordered my 10.5mm fisheye and there is no end to the backorder situation in sight. Do you know how hard it is to keep that much money in my checking? Breakin my balls here, Nikon.
Read More..>>Hell’s Half Angel
My friend Justin just bought a scooter and is totally living the lifestyle. I’ll let the photos fill in the blanks.
Read More..>>VR Panoramas
I was getting paid to browse photography sites yesterday at work and came across this super cool page full of Quicktime VR movies taken at some photo expo. I thought those must have been taken with some wacky equipment, and decided to see how they were made. I was surprised to discover that making them [...]
Read More..>>More Skate Pics
With skate photos, seems that if I capture “the moment”, the composition is all wrong, and if I get the composition, I miss “the moment”. I have a bunch of brilliantly framed photos of people flying through the air 10 feet away from their board, and some horrible photos of the best tricks. If I [...]
Read More..>>New Lens! (And other Stuff)
(9:43:56 PM) Mom: check will be in the mail tomorrow, be sure to spend it on something frivolous
What, you mean like a Nikkor 10.5mm Fisheye?!
This is it. This lens is pretty much THE lens for skateboard photography. This is Nikon’s latest and greatest, sharpest and fastest fisheye, and is pretty much the lens that’s being [...]
Adobe Lightroom
Lightroom 1.0, Adobe’s answer to Apple’s Aperture, finally came out a couple days ago. There has been a beta version publicly available on their site for several months now, but I tend to not test out beta software. I’ve only spent about an hour now with the final version, but so far I’m extremely impressed, [...]
Read More..>>My Concert Lens
I attempted some live music photography on my old Sony camera and got barely passable results. And as I mentioned before, the lens I got with my SLR is a great lens, but not so hot for indoor or low-light photography (f/3.5). The next lens on my shopping list is Nikon’s 10.5mm fisheye, which I [...]
Read More..>>Some Crap
Eh.
Read More..>>My Homemade Macro Studio
Well it snowed AGAIN today, and reached physically painful lows. Tired of not being able to shoot outside, and desperately wanting to mess around with my camera, I decided to dig around online to look at various methods of building your own lightboxes for macros. There’s a zillion how-to’s on the subject, but I found [...]
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