Five camera calibration settings compared (hi res available in my Flickr stream
When I was making the master Highway 89 image files, I downloaded some new camera profiles that Adobe released for their Camera Raw functionality. Once I got familiar with them, using them completely upgraded my Raw conversion workflow.
First, download and install profiles from Adobe [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Use Camera Calibration settings to speed RAW conversion workflow
First shot with Nikon 16-35 4.0 VR
New Pope John Paul II candles in stock-first shots with Nikon 16-35 VR (ISO 1600, 16mm, f 5.0, 1/200th second
I had to go to the grocery store right after I picked up my new Nikon 16-35 lens from Pictureline. It’s what has to be done–no time to find pristine wilderness this juicy piece of optical [...]
Photog’s bookshelf: Eliot Porter
Fern Glen Canyon, Colorado River mile 168, Grand Canyon National Park
Earlier this month, I blogged about my project to assemble a small reference library on photography. Here is a write-up of one of my first additions to my collection, Eliot Porter.
Eliot Porter, photographs and text by Eliot Porter, was published in 1987 as a companion [...]
Ready for spring
Nikon D700, 50 mm 1.8, PK-13 extension tube (27.5mm)
In principle, extension tubes are one of the cheapest ways to play around with macro photography, using the high quality optics I already own. By stretching the distance between the optics and the capture plane (film or sensor), it works essentially like pulling an overhead projector away [...]
Step into the studio, little girl
My 10 year old friend Baylor’s first studio shots*
Imagine you are a 10 year girl. It is Saturday and your dad invites drags you to to some weird photography club thing a church in a strip mall. And the family’s camera is in another state. “This will be fun,” dad says. Yeah right.
Baylor tried out [...]
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