Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category
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-tos on the subject, but I found [...]
Working with RAW
Realized yesterday that I didn’t have a case to protect my new investment and went down to the camera store and picked up a nice little Tamrac bag for $40 or so. Adding lenses to my collection is probably quite a ways off, so this little bag should do the trick for quite a while. [...]
My Camera’s In!
Well, when you order 2nd day air, UPS clearly does not fuck around.
Nice one, UPS.
…but it’s here! My initial reaction after tearing the box open was “NO WAY!”, then a sort of sinking feeling set in: “This is entirely too much camera for me”. I screwed the lens on, secured the strap on (last thing [...]
New Camera!
For quite a while, I’ve had a running list in my head of “expensive things” I can’t live without, and occasionally I get to check one off. When I was working in networking, I got to check “silly computer” and “car” off that list. My girlfriend checked “80gb iPod video” off the list for me [...]
The Great Ghost Photo Caper
Tim and I have recently become obsessed with this horrible docu-drama on the Discovery channel called A Haunting. However, that is a post-in-progress; it was merely the inspiration for this post.
After subjecting ourselves to several episodes of A Haunting just a couple nights ago, we were browsing articles on several of the “mediums” and “psychics” [...]
Casper on Flaming!
For some reason when I originally saw it, I didn’t think anything of the enormous plumes of thick smoke rising from the mountain bordering the south side of my town. I guess when a fire is that far away you don’t realize how big the flames have to be to create that much smoke. Well, [...]
Mission: Live Boring Life Accomplished
Was offered the opportunity to photograph an upcoming bachelorette party for a friend of a friend’s (read: complete strangers). While I can think of a couple things that could possibly be less exciting than creating mountains of incriminating evidence of a full night of drunken female debauchery, I politely declined, explaining that it wouldn’t be [...]
WNB On Flaming!!
Well my celebration of Go Skateboarding Day got cut a little short, as Chuck and I bombed our favorite hill into the downtown area only to find that the Wyoming National Bank (a historic building currently being refurbished into apartments or something) was ENGULFED IN FLAMEY FIRAGE!!!
As soon as I saw it I was furious [...]
Death to the King
Hey, as long as we’re on local music, my friends’ band Death to the King now has a Myspace, so definitely check out their songs. They’re just now putting the finishing touches on a self produced CD that’s really sounding great.
Anyway, they wanted some photos for their profile, and I had a bunch leftover [...]
New Photo Gallery Software
It’s been quiet on the photography front, but mostly because I don’t REALLY want to take any decent pictures until I get my new camera. Unfortunately, though I can afford things like this now, I’m car shopping this week, so putting aside for my new beauty will have to be pushed back a paycheck or [...]
