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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)