I’m going to depart from the regularly scheduled programing here and post a more personal rambling. I’m a bit drunk with adoration currently as I have always loved coming to Paris. Here are a couple shots from the last few days.
Category Archives: General ramblings
For all the stuff that doesn’t fit elsewhere!
*Have camera, will travel.
How good is your memory? Can you remember the way that the lights reflected off of the wet cobble stone streets? The excitement in your child’s face as they realize that other worlds exist? That questionable meal that forced you to spend the evening exploring the finer points of your hotel room’s bathroom? Well, for many of us, a vacation without our camera is not really a vacation. I’ve had quite a few questions about what to bring, when not to shoot, or how do I choose what to use while traveling…
*Lensbaby Scout!
image © Lensbaby Inc. 2010
My blog may seem as if I’ve become nothing but a Lensbaby honk of late. Let me say, I’ve been lucky enough to have made friends with the fine folks at Lensbaby. That, and they’re my local, hometown lens manufacturer right here in Portland. I am a softy when it comes to supporting the local folks, so in a word, yes, I like seeing a local, forward thinking optical company do well. They are also very cool people making very unique, affordable optics, and they asked me if I would play around with this new lens. I love all things photography, so I was excited to get my hands on yet another brand new Lensbaby product to play around with. As if the recently released Tilt Transformer wasn’t enough, Lensbaby has developed the Scout to further diversify their optical offerings. More after the jump…
*About a boy, and his Hasselblad.
It’s easy to go through much of life paying attention to the times that one is unlucky, but if we spend all of our energy on ignoring the times we are lucky, it is easy to miss out on a lot of the fun life can provide. I remember hearing about Hasselblads back in the day. I’d never really considered medium format to be something I’d ever realistically get to play around with. My limited expendable income was always directed to other areas. As fortune and luck would have it, the father of a girl that I was dating, was a photographer. Not just a photographer, but a connoisseur of all things photographic. His history with photography was inspiring, his knowledge intriguing, his collection of cameras was a thing of beauty. I knew, I needed to marry this girl.
*Micro 4/3 and Sony NEX Lensbaby Tilt Transformer is HERE!
*image used courtesy of Lensbaby
As announcement after announcement come in, excitement in the photographic industry rarely hits the pitch that it does when Photokina rolls around. Lensbaby has used this stage to announce their first micro 4/3 and Sony NEX dedicated offerings in the form of a combined Tilt Transformer and Composer for each of the subsequent mounts. Being that I do not have, nor have access to a NEX 3 or 5, I’ll be writing about my experience with the micro 4/3 mount Lensbaby Tilt Transformer/Composer combo. Combining the optical playground that is the Lensbaby Composer with the ability to replace the composer element and mount any Nikon F mount lens to gain a multitude of tilt-able options is just what we’ve needed to see in a micro 4/3 mount, a versatile, affordable, different and really, really fun option. Read on for a few test shots and examples…
*Sarah and John are now officially hitched (and we’ve got the pictures to prove it)
Firstly, to my friends Sarah and John, congratulations! I’ve spent the last two weeks staring at you guys in digital form getting to relive your wedding day and the only regret I have is that I wasn’t able to drink and celebrate more, alongside you guys. I am really excited with the images that Shelby, Rachael and I were able to get and hope that you guys enjoy them. Read on for a link to the gallery and in the mean time, here are a few in slideshow form…
*Photovision DVD Seminar Discount!
*A BRIEF BREAK FROM OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMING*
Here is a substantial discount for the Photovision DVD seminar series if you’re interested.
I have personally subscribed to the Photovision series for 2010 and can say, it has provided me with some remarkably useful insight to the industry. From interviews surrounding marketing and networking your photographic business, to a ton of “how to’s” regarding anything from wedding shooting to studio work, child portraits to location lighting.
For anyone interested, I’ve been given a discount code to offer anyone who is interested (from the list price of $149 down to $39) you get 6 DVD’s with about 2 hours of material on each. I won’t lie, I get a free subscription if 3 people use my link and code to sign up and I’m sure you would qualify for the same deal next year. If you are interested, I would greatly appreciate using my link and code, but I won’t feel bad if you don’t 🙂 Have a look, it may be of interest.
Use this link: http://fansof.photovisionvideo.com/Tyson/050081
And use the code: “PVFAN” to get the deal for $39.
Regardless if I get three folks to sign up or not, I will be renewing as I feel it does offer a great amount of insight into the way other working pros approach their work, plus I’ve learned some cool tricks too.
Thanks all!
Tyson
*Mirrorless Mania! Which camera should I get?
I have been receiving quite a few emails lately asking which mirrorless interchangeable lens compact cameras I would suggest, so I figured I would give a quick rundown on who I feel would benefit from each of the current stock out there and which I feel are the “best” choices.
*Who are they for anyway? – an open letter to Panolympus
We are witnessing a new war being waged in digital photography, and we’re all winning. On top of the leapfrogging going on in the higher end system lines, we are seeing more and more movement toward the world of smaller, mirror-less, interchangeable lens system cameras. You may call them EVIL (Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens, assuming they have an electronic viewfinder), or MILC (Mirror-less Interchangeable Lens Compacts) but however we cleverly abbreviate them, the question remains, who are these cameras for?
*A thank you to many, or, why I think the internet is cool.
I do feel that you are neat. If you are reading this, it is meant for you.
First, thank you. To those of you who’ve been visiting, reading and commenting and those who have been linking me to their blogs, articles, allowing me to guest blog for you, re-posting my blog posts, and generally helping each other out, thank you. If you are here, reading this, I mean you.
The internet is an amazing tool for information gathering. Sometimes that information can be challenged and in some cases, just downright wrong, but the fact that it is a tool that enables all of us to provide the dialogue, has gone a long way in helping me in a variety of ways. I wanted to take the opportunity to thank a few of the folks who’ve helped my blog gain a little exposure and hope to be able to turn a few of my new friends onto their sites as well. Many of the links below may be well known to many of us, others perhaps not, but regardless, I find a lot of value in these sites and hope that others may as well if you don’t already…
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