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After an epic month and a half of waiting...
MY CAMERA IS FIXED!
Not the Nikon Coolpix 2500, mind you. I take too many pictures with that one. No.
This one belonged to my mom, and was broken before I was born.
It is a Pentax H1 Heiland camera. Made circa 1970. It is an SLR camera, meaning I now have full and total control over:
Focus
Shutter Speed
Depth of Field
Color vs. Black and White
I also have two lenses for it. One of which has some pretty cool filters. Namely a polarizer. That's going to be great once I get into the mountains again. Oh, yeah!
soo...
I AM SUPER PSYCHED!
Odds are that I'll be posting mostly things I take with that camera from now on. No offense to the Coolpix, but this higher quality machine is not to be ignored. I'll make a point of including information like shutter speed and aperture in the comments (when I write them down). So, be prepared for some good new stuff!
Also, at the urging of a friend, I have set up an account at Flickr:
www.flickr.com/people/25952040…
Anyone interested can visit me there. For the moment, they seem to be much less glitchy than DA. However, I won't upload anything there that I don't here. For the time being, the Flickr account will be exclusively for pictures I take with the Pentax. Just because.
That's all for the night.
Have a good night, everyone.
And remember:
wallout.com/lsd_vs_alcohol_vs_…
Just say no to drugs. Even funny ones
MY CAMERA IS FIXED!
Not the Nikon Coolpix 2500, mind you. I take too many pictures with that one. No.
This one belonged to my mom, and was broken before I was born.
It is a Pentax H1 Heiland camera. Made circa 1970. It is an SLR camera, meaning I now have full and total control over:
Focus
Shutter Speed
Depth of Field
Color vs. Black and White
I also have two lenses for it. One of which has some pretty cool filters. Namely a polarizer. That's going to be great once I get into the mountains again. Oh, yeah!
soo...
I AM SUPER PSYCHED!
Odds are that I'll be posting mostly things I take with that camera from now on. No offense to the Coolpix, but this higher quality machine is not to be ignored. I'll make a point of including information like shutter speed and aperture in the comments (when I write them down). So, be prepared for some good new stuff!
Also, at the urging of a friend, I have set up an account at Flickr:
www.flickr.com/people/25952040…
Anyone interested can visit me there. For the moment, they seem to be much less glitchy than DA. However, I won't upload anything there that I don't here. For the time being, the Flickr account will be exclusively for pictures I take with the Pentax. Just because.
That's all for the night.
Have a good night, everyone.
And remember:
wallout.com/lsd_vs_alcohol_vs_…
Just say no to drugs. Even funny ones
Employed
For one month, I have been working at a photography-related job. This is my first employment out of college, and a much better job than I expected to find with a journalism degree in this economic climate.
Our mission is to educate, inform and inspire other photographers. I will be using this page to share some of our stories and insights. Only those I feel like sharing, and only after we get a working website up.
Soon, my friends, soon.
On a related note, being in proximity of seriously talented photographers for the first time in months has inspired me to take this medium a little more seriously. I hope this will show in the things I pos
Help My Friend make a Book!
Have you seen this man?
~coveredinspittle (https://www.deviantart.com/coveredinspittle)
You have now.
He is a fantastic photographer, with a whole gallery of work well worth checking out (and much more located in other strata of the interwebs).
He was my first college roommate, he introduced me to this website, this community, and this medium of photography which has been my hobby and his passion.
He is now in the process of making a book. This book will feature his photos and his words. It is called A Photo Book For Lonesome Children, and is a very personal, and powerful, piece. I have seen little of it, but I have good reason to believe that the end product will be something
You're All Doing Well
I have a nasty habit of logging into this site when I am tired, drunk, or in a rush. And then not that often.
So I see all this art, but never bother commenting on it. I figure I'll get to it later.
Then it piles up, and I get this intimidating 70 messages icon.
Then I REALLY don't have time to go through and comment on things.
So I present a blanket statement:
You folks who's art I receive in my watch feed are making wonderful and fantastic works of art. I see things that capture powerful emotional landscapes in a single photograph. I see things that push the boundaries of realism in photography. I see work that, though simplicity or si
The Transition
Sorry, Nikon fans, I've crossed the fence.
This winter break, I bought a Cannon Rebel XTi from a friend of mine trying to escape the clutches of credit card debt. Probably not the wisest decision, considering I just graduated from college and have no job yet, but at least I can be creative with my time, right? Right...
Anyway, my Nikon is next to dead. The slot that keeps the memory card in place is loose, The light meter is off by eight stops or so, the LCD screen blows out highlights (even on underexposed images), and the process of offloading the photos on my computer is agonizingly slow. The new camera is a better deal. More megapixels,
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Omg that's so awesome!