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 ...
Wild Exaggerations
Sunday, February 10th, 2008 Posted in geeky, hobbies, photography | 2 Comments »I hope that Scotty can one day forgive me for taking that photo... heh heh...
Glad I shoot Canon
Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in hobbies, photography | 3 Comments »...That means I can get one of these puppies. Check out the price... and it's huuuuge! Too bad all you Nikon folks are out in the cold on this one! ;-) (Found this via kenrockwell.com)
You mean people used to print out -every- photo?
Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in hobbies, photography | 3 Comments »In my last post, I alluded to getting some photos I've taken printed out. And today, they arrived in the mail. Cool! I gotta say, I'm very happy with the results, especially for the price. There's one 4x6, seven 5x7 and ...
Recent photos
Sunday, January 27th, 2008 Posted in hobbies, photography | 1 Comment »I haven't posted in a while... And you, our squirrely readers, deserve better! It's partly been a conscious decision on my part. I don't want this blog turning into a non-stop log of "OMG, I bought this great thing"... which ...
Learning wide-angle…
Monday, November 12th, 2007 Posted in hobbies, photography | 5 Comments »We've had the Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens for about a week now so I thought I'd put some pics up I've taken while getting to know it. The bottom line is, it's living up to expectations! Even our 35mm lens ...
Wide-angle fun
Monday, November 5th, 2007 Posted in hobbies, photography | 1 Comment »A couple of months have passed since I wrote about how I want an ultra-wide angle zoom lens for our Digital Rebel XTi camera. Since then I've seen a whole ton more neat photos on Flickr taken with the ...
Inspirations
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 Posted in architecture, photography | 1 Comment »I love architecture and great photos of architecture. The whole gamut, from the impression that an entire building or interior space makes, to the small details. When I was a kid and I took photographs, mom would ask "where are ...