I have this teak bench in my back yard that gets the most glorious sun very late in the afternoon. Throughout the year, it looks different with the seasons. This week it snowed and I looked outside my office window and saw it was bathed in the late afternoon sun. I had less than 5 minutes to run outside and grab this 2-shot pano.
So the mantra with many notable photographers is to Always have a Camera with you. If you travel for business, like I do, you can’t really take a camera everywhere. It’s just not practical and you have explain to your boss, colleagues, and clients why you have a nerdy camera with you. So I don’t do that and won’t unless I have a chance to make a pre- or post-trip on my own.So the modern equivalent is the smartphone. They take as good a pictures as most digital cameras for normal photos, shockingly good. This was a photo taken at
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Was bored at the beach in Martha’s Vineyard at Long Point in September and decided that the waves looked nice, even at mid-day. The beach traffic is very light at this beach and so late in the season, especially light. There probably weren’t 40 people on 100 yrs of beach. There was also a bunch of seaweed growing out of the surf which made for very interesting patterns. Took my iPhone X out and started snapping. Took about 100 photos and these two sets of triptychs are the result.
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Olympus E5 w 12-60 kit lens on macro. Handheld. The berries are probabaly about 1cm in diameter
I got out my Infrared-converted Olympus E520 that was purchased maybe 10-12 years ago. I kept the 14-54 (good thing). It’s got a bit of a hot spot, but that’s fixable. This camera was bought, off Ebay, I think, already converted when I had my E-1 or E-3, I can’t remember when. It looks like it’s a 820 nm cutoff filter. I shoot it in black-and-white and bump up the contrast in the camera. As long as the histogram shows that I”m not blowing the highlights, it’s all fixable in post.
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Starting to go back through my old photos and pull out favorites that make me happy, it’s been far too long that the 110,000 photos on my computer are locked away. This one was a five-photo stitch taken in 2004 with an Olympus E-1 and the 11-22 2/8-3.5 lens at 11mm. 1/250 @ f/8.0 . Stitching was done with PTGui in Photoshop CS for Windows.
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Was driving in Bloomfield a couple of weeks ago and this diner with its improvised outdoor dining in the time of COVID stuck me as as a sign of these crazy times. When I first drove by that stupid stuck wasn’t there but I couldn’t move it.
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The glorious two Ginkgo trees in my NJ yard dropped their leaves recently, all within 1 day and right after the first hard freeze. They are the most wonderful yellow leaves. The only downside of my two trees, which were planted sometime in the 70’s, that they are both females and therefore drop smelly, smelly fruits. And this year, we had a wet Spring, so the trees produced a bumper crop….thousands and thousands of them. They’ve been falling for a record two months. But the leaves are wonderful.
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Just got my new IIa 016 back from Chris Sherlock today. Boy, he does good work. My only other Retina is a IIIc 021 (non-working meter) so now I have a comparison of two cameras that were a few years apart. 1. Size / Weight difference – It’s significant when you pick up the cameras. That increased top holding the meter makes the IIIc camera feel a lot bigger. In addition, the front of the IIa is flat, whereas the IIIc is curved, which makes the IIa easier to hold and it feels narrower. The overall impression is very different
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Something dug out from the archives. NYC somewhere: Fall 2003. Shot on Delta 400. Probably with a collapsible Summicron on a Leica, but I can’t remember if that’s right or not. Scan via Epson 850i
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