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Archive for March 2010

Wide-angle wildlife photography

This guy was helping himself (or, “gal,” “herself”: Who knows?) to the compost bucket outside the kitchen door last night when I headed out to dump some recyclables into the bin. And to think people spend good money on big glass. photo: Opossum, 2010

The poor man’s 85mm f/1.4 lens…

… Better known as the humble SMC-M 50mm f/1.4, on an APS-C crop body like the Pentax K20D. More playing around with the idea of digital black and white. It’s too smooth for a Tri-X fan like me, but it has its own buttery charm. I’ll be interested to see what these photos look like [...]

Digital seductions

I’ve been thinking a lot again about digital black and white. The attraction of film, of course, is the beautiful prints that can be produced in a darkroom, and I haven’t come even close to being convinced that digital printing has reached the level of quality, cost, convenience and permanence offered by old fashioned black [...]

Got out the Pentax 645

And, no, that’s not the new 645D that’s coming out soon in Japan. Oddly enough a new medium format digital body just isn’t in the budget this year, even at less than $10k. But the old, original, manual focus Pentax 645 is still a wonderful camera. I spent a while this afternoon out in the woods with [...]

Hand colored ferns

Just added to the gallery this morning. photo: Ferns, hand-colored black and white, 2010

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