Slide Film is tricky, after all!
Monday, August 18th, 2008 Posted in geeky, hobbies, photography | 4 Comments »Or is it? (That's a nice, vague introduction!) Well, I've been reading a lot about different kinds of film, including slide film. The color rendition is supposed to be totally different than from negative film, not to mention more of a ...
If you like photography….
Saturday, July 19th, 2008 Posted in The Internet and The Web, opinion, photography | No Comments »...and you don't have The Boston Globe's The Big Picture in your RSS reader, I question your interest in the craft! It's a carefully selected compendium of excellent photography of recent news events. Some of the photos in the Tour de ...
What could possibly go wrong?
Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in geeky, hobbies, photography | 2 Comments »Earlier, I talked about how I got my Kodak Vigilant Six-20 and what it takes to get a roll of 120 film to fit inside of it. I also linked to the first (and so far only) set of photos ...
Fitting 120 in a space made for 620
Saturday, June 28th, 2008 Posted in geeky, hobbies, photography | 2 Comments »The other week, before filming an episode of Fork You, Marisa gave me a neat old medium format "folder" camera from her family's collection, a Kodak Vigilant Six-20. I was, and continue to be, thrilled with this fun little ...
Busy, busy, busy!
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 Posted in The Internet and The Web | 2 Comments »You probably couldn't help but notice that there hasn't been much new going on here recently. That's because we've been unbelievably busy in recent months! What, with trips to Mexico, Fork You! filming in various places with Scotty and ...
Ahh, the Internet is an interesting place.
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in The Internet and The Web, double bass, geeky, hobbies | No Comments »I was looking through my stats on Flickr to see what's going on with my photos. I was surprised to see some references to Double Bass message boards linking to my Flickr pictures. Hmmm...
Polarizing results
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in architecture, hobbies, photography | 2 Comments »Ahh, filters. Apparently, it's a slightly controversial topic among photographers (touched on somewhat in this thread). The con side seems to view them as gimmicky and something that gets in the way of capturing an image. Essentially, more junk for ...
Old school fun
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in architecture, hobbies, photography | 5 Comments »In addition to our Canon Rebel XTi, we've got an old school Pentax K1000 35mm SLR camera. This is THE classic student film camera: a basic, fully manual 35mm SLR with basic controls that does what you tell it to; ...
All kinds of fun
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in architecture, geeky, photography, pipe organs, trains | No Comments »Today was a cool day. I managed to hit an incredible combination of my favorite subjects. Craftyangie needed to buy some clothes at the Macys in the former Wanamaker building in Center City, so we grabbed our cameras and ...
Easy Mousse
Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Fork You, food, geeky, hobbies | No Comments »Craftyangie and I have been helping out Scotty and Marisa create Fork You!, an online video cooking show, for well over a year now. And now, the latest show is up! Mmmm, quick and easy mousse... Just in time for ...