Nikon D90 DSLR: Not the latest, but still great Bottom line: Even today, I think a used D90 is best “cheapest” camera. Cheap here means it is the least expensive option with the qualities we want. Three reasons I chose the Nikon D90 12.3MP DX body: Excellent High ISO performance Ability to drive older pin-focus, non-AF-S auto […]
The Nikon 60mm f/2.8D AF Micro-Nikkor is not only my Nikon macro lens, it’s my favorite lens in general. In Nikon lenses, only Micro Nikkors offer true macro. The Nikkor 18-55 DX and 70-300 zooms do not focus close enough for macro. Zooms sometimes label their closest-focus as “macro” but nothing beats true 1:1 macro. The […]
Happy Caterday! Sometimes you have to go with what you have. This photo of Rosie is not as sharp as I would like. I was actually playing with my Fuji IS Pro UVIR camera, with a 720nm IR filter on top, taking random shots of the neighborhood from the front door. Rosie suddenly insisted on […]
Today I photographed the mill at McConnells Mill State Park. I will have more pictures in another post soon. In this post, we take the same view, but use four different photographic methods: traditional, HDR, false-color infrared, and black and white infrared. All images were taken with a Nikon 18-55mm AF-S DX VR lens, at […]
I don’t expect to win any composition awards with this photograph. What was I trying to capture was the pleasing warm light on the white bark on this plane tree (an ornamental in the same family as the American Sycamore.) I saw this light was I was leaving work. I did not have time to […]
Artistically, this was a bit of serendipity. It was late, I had not taken my One Picture a Day yet. I went to my new “assistant,” a strong LED flashlight and the dark room. Not the darkroom, where film is printed, but a room with the lights out where we take photographs with single light […]
Back to black and white with this winter scene. We continue to explore post-processing to black and white. We photograph in RAW. In Aperture, we desaturate. The in the Curves brick, we pull the red curve north, the blue curve south. We desaturate again, using the Saturation brush applied to the entire photograph. Then we play […]
Curious things we collect. Here’s a jumble of obsolete typography printing letters. They have a name, can’t think of it right now. These were retrieved from a purge of these things at a high school in the 1990s. We have a printer’s drawer the would have held these, too. Amazing how something that was the […]
It’s not a photoblog without at least one cat (and/or dog.) We made it through 31days of One Picture a Day before we got to the cat. But now her time has come. Rosie is very cooperative for the camera. Her roommate, Sox, has the uncanny ability to close his eyes every time I take […]
A basket of oranges celebrates our final One Picture a Day for January. Taking up on the earlier theme of the perfect orange, we brought a basketful into our tabletop studio for some practice stock photography. We are using the Merax One Shot Studio once again. I had a little trouble with the equipment. The […]