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Monday, December 25, 2006



Ugh, I'm way behind on updates. Here's three from film - the first two are on Arista 400 pushed to 1600, I shot them in Durango. The third is Fuji Astia cross-processed to C41. I won't be doing the PAD thing in 2007, so if you guys want to delete me from your lists I won't mind at all... I'll probably update it every once in a while with new stuff though.

Saturday, December 09, 2006


Some pictures on B&W film. I really like B&W for some stuff, I'm going to have to start developing it myself eventually so I don't have to wait to get it processed.
I'm proud of the shot of the hippies or whatever in the parking lot, it was on Delta 100 at half a second wide open with my M3 and 35mm 2.5 - definitely couldn't have pulled that off with an SLR :)

...Although, to be honest, I could have gone to ISO 1600 and underexposed 2 stops on the XT and still gotten a usable 640px B&W, but think of the possibilities with fast film.

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Full moon rising over the river, which is iced over near the shores where it doesn't move as fast.

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

A photo of a rusty old tank or pipe or something that sits next to the road. Warm, afternoon lighting and Velvia, so the colors are pretty saturated. I love the textures of rust, it's about the most interesting pattern you can see around here.

Sunday, November 26, 2006

I don't have very much good stuff to post lately... Here's one of my dog, taken with an old Pentax 55mm screwmount lens, probably wide open or so. I like the look of it. We went to visit my grandparents in massachusetts for thanksgiving, and I took pictures there, but all on film, so it'll be a while before I post them.

Friday, November 17, 2006


Some shots with the M3 around campus. Used my Voigtlander 35mm 2.5 and Provia 100. This new version of Blogger is pretty cool.

Saturday, November 04, 2006




The trees and house are scanned from Velvia 100, taken with my 1N and 70-210. The rock garden is with the M3 and 35mm 2.5 Voigtlander lens, Kodak 400UC.

Monday, October 30, 2006



I know I've been behind, especially on comments and looking at other people's pictures. 12 credit hours equals a decent amount of work, and I somehow manage to equate commenting and uploading to my PAD as work lately, so I usually don't feel like it.
These two are from my 1N. One of them is a double exposure using the fisheye lens, it turned out pretty cool I think. I got my Leica M3, but I won't have a lens for it until tomorrow and of course it's film so I won't be able to post the pictures from it for a couple days. We'll see if I can get by without a digital camera for long - this is the first time since August of 2001!
If I'm able to get a job, I'll probably save up for a 5D or 1Ds next summer.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006


A photo shot on some Tmax 100 film. Canon 1N, 50mm 1.8 wide open.

Saturday, October 21, 2006




3 photos taken in Kansas with the 1N and the 70-210. I was really close to the close focus limit on these I think, and it worked out pretty well. Shot on Kodak 400UC, which seems really nice, I'll be using a lot more of it.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006




Some photos from my trip to Kansas. The first one (or whichever order they are) is my dad. The cow, I'm pretty happy with and probably will enter it in free study. The other one is a butterfly eating the pollen on some of my aunt and uncle's flowers. They had a lot of them there. I'll post some scans from film when I get it developed, I shot almost as much film as digital (4 rolls)

Tuesday, October 10, 2006




I've been busy with plenty of class work lately, so here's three pictures at a time. One of them is at the reception for a photography show at the Civic Center for the photography club that I'm in, my cat picture is on the wall there. We had a lot of rain, and more importantly the area upstream from us got more, so the neighborhood got a LOT of water. Our front lawn was underwater for a while, and so was this oilfield site. The third shot is some fall colors on a dirt driveway - got some good old fashioned trespassing going on to make the shot. I'm going on a trip to Kansas soon, hopefully I'll get some good landscapes and maybe shots of the family. When I come back I'm selling my digital camera and most of my lenses, and possibly my film camera. Going to go to a Leica M6, and I haven't decided which lenses yet. Ideally, a 21mm f/4, a 50mm f/2 and a 75mm f/2.5, but $$$ and no money for a scanner and a PnS digital. Someone come buy my prints!

Sunday, October 01, 2006



A couple shots of the colorful fall foliage around here. The second shot is at Haviland lake, outside of Durango.

Wednesday, September 27, 2006


Sort of an abstract macro - wanted to see what I could do in Adobe Camera RAW; overexposed by a lot, probably 4 stops, then brought it down in ACR and played with the contrast and curves settings. Then took it into PS and cropped pretty far, guassian blur and USM to smooth the edges out, and resized and saved.

Sunday, September 24, 2006


A shot with the fisheye, processed quite a bit to get the wild colors.

Saturday, September 23, 2006


Another shot from last weekend in Albuquerque. Processed this one with a program called PhotoMatix, and did an 'HDR' from different conversions of the RAW file.

Monday, September 18, 2006


I got a new fisheye lens - here's one of the shots with it. A self portrait, showing my messy room. I'm too lazy for EXIF on shots like this where it's not important :P
The lens is a Peleng 8mm, I like it so far. Definitely not a do-it-all lens, though...

Sunday, September 17, 2006



We went to the state fair this weekend - my cat photo did really well, better than I've ever done at the fair. It won a first place, best of show, and judge's choice! My other photo, of the moving water (they're all on my portfolio at DPC) also got first place, and my landscape got an honorable mention.
The second photo is from the top of the Sandia mountains - my dad and I took the tram up to the top, and hiked around for a while taking pictures, then came back down. It's really cool, I recommend it to anyone who's in the area.

Thursday, September 14, 2006


Just a landscape I shot. Practiced some processing, I removed a couple clouds in this version, might have been a bad choice. Used my polarizer filter.

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Tamron 28-75mm 2.8
  • Aperture: 8.0
  • Shutter: 1/60th
  • ISO: 100

Friday, September 08, 2006


A seagull. I felt like updating it, so I picked a random old picture and processed it weirdly.

Thursday, August 31, 2006


From the same batch as yesterday, backlit seeds.

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Tamron 28-75mm 2.8
  • Aperture: 11
  • Shutter: 1/125th
  • ISO: 100

Wednesday, August 30, 2006


A self portrait I shot yesterday. I'm too lazy to edit another one from the set now, so this may or may not have been a challenge entry. ;p

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Tamron 28-75
  • Aperture: 5.6
  • Shutter: 1/800th
  • ISO: 400

Monday, August 28, 2006


Another film picture.

  • Camera: Canon 1N
  • Lens: Tamron 70-210mm 2.8
  • Aperture: 2.8-ish
  • Shutter: ?
  • ISO: 100 (Fuji Astia)

Saturday, August 26, 2006


A landscape with some lightning that I shot a few weeks ago with my film camera.

  • Camera: Canon 1N
  • Lens: Tamron 28-75 2.8
  • Aperture: ~32
  • Shutter: ~1.3sec
  • ISO: 100(Fuji Astia)

Wednesday, August 23, 2006


My photos from the county fair. I entered these three, and all of them did pretty well. I got a best of show for my cat picture, and blue ribbons for the others, which I'm happy about. I can't wait to see how they do in the state fair (I entered the same three). There's more competition in the state fair, and until I'm 19 I can't enter in the Pro section here, even if I've sold prints (which, by the way, I have - an artist friend of ours liked my landscape so much that she bought the one I entered... sweet :))

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Tamron 28-75mm 2.8
  • Aperture: 8.0
  • Shutter: 1/40th
  • ISO: 400

Sunday, August 20, 2006


My mom's baked items, and all the prizes she got for them. This was her best year at the fair here so far. Lit with my flash to the left bounced off the ceiling, and a 250watt heat lamp on a worklight right outside the frame on the right.

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Tamron 28-75mm 2.8
  • Aperture: 11
  • Shutter: 1/40th
  • ISO: 400

Friday, August 18, 2006



A thing they were doing at the county fair. They had a green screen and a video camera set up with software that put the people's face on a cartoon music video. They burned DVD's for the people who did it, it was all free and paid for by the sponsors. Shot with my 350D, 28-75 and at ISO 1600

Tuesday, August 15, 2006


Lilies.

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Tamron 70-210mm 2.8
  • Aperture: 2.8
  • Shutter: 1/2500
  • ISO: 400

Sunday, August 13, 2006


Some plants in the yard, backlit by the sun.

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Tamron 28-75mm 2.8
  • Aperture: 4.0
  • Shutter: 1/320
  • ISO: 100

Wednesday, August 09, 2006


A landscape I did a few days ago. Going to enter it in the fair next week, it looks really cool in print.

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Canon 18-55mm
  • Aperture: 8.0
  • Shutter: 1/100th
  • ISO: 400

Monday, August 07, 2006


'Sun' flower. Set my flash up behind it to light it.

Thursday, August 03, 2006


My nieces. Did a double exposure with my film camera.

Sunday, July 30, 2006


Navajo Lake.

Friday, July 28, 2006


Another shot from the camp, I'm having to edit shots for the website... probably the most photos I've edited at once for a long time. I set the camera on a table to convey motion in this one.

  • Camera: Canon 350D
  • Lens: Canon 18-55mm
  • Aperture: 22
  • Shutter: 1.3 sec
  • ISO: 100

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