This weekend I was at a Borders bookstore in Northern Virginia when I decided I’d purchase some magazines. I started looking through the periodical racks for a photography magazine because I was interested in seeing what art criticism and journalism looked like for that medium. It turns out I was a bit more [...]
Category Archives: Photography
A Scanner Brightly
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
I received my Epson Perfection V500 scanner today, and the above shot is my first scanned picture. I’ll probably be up way too late working on more pictures tonight, so keep an eye out on my Flickr stream
Ghosts of Cameras Past
Monday, August 11, 2008
I think I just found a new desktop wallpaper for my MBP. It’s a design by Gary Gao, the same gentleman who created the “Ghosts of Macintosh Past” t-shirt which John Gruber linked up yesterday. I particularly like how the Yashica Mat TLR (in its leather case, no less!) is right there in [...]
Blogging the Class: Week 10
Monday, August 4, 2008
Hey hey hey, last week of the class, and only two of us show up other than the teacher. And there was no developer anywhere to be found. So no darkroom time. Instead, we’ll get vouchers (if the dude remembers) for one free week of the open darkroom during the fall session. [...]
Leica à la carte
Saturday, August 2, 2008
For the starting price (indeed, it goes much higher) of $4,600.00, you too can have a bespoke Leica rangefinder camera. I mean, a man can dream, right? Right?!
Blogging the Class: Week 9
Monday, July 28, 2008
In tonight’s penultimate class we replayed, for the most part, the last several weeks. There were two major differences, however.
First, I had the negatives from my medium format test roll, and as such, I could make prints of my new square delights. I had to swap out the 50 mm condenser lens for [...]
Medium
Friday, July 25, 2008
I’ve uploaded my entire test roll of medium format film to my Flickr page. Being a test roll, the shots are, consequently, not that interesting. But I think the detail and clarity of the film format is evident.
Rural Decay
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Nine new exposures on my Flickr action…all from a day trip to Farmville with Jake.
Yashica Mat
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
So here’s the big reveal: a new (old) camera (pardon the blurry low-light macro shot)!
This is a Twin Lens Reflex camera with the top lens for the viewfinder and the bottom for the picture. It shoots medium format (120) film creating 6×6 cm negatives. The results, assuming this thing works, would be like [...]
Blogging the Class: Week 8
Monday, July 21, 2008
After tonight, I’m officially bummed out about this class. Don’t get me wrong, the darkroom time has been great, and still is. And tonight I actually received some useful photographic advice from the teacher, but it was after I initiated a discussion. It wasn’t general instruction for the class.
There were only four [...]
