I hate feeling depressed…
Feathered Death
Baker Beach, San Francisco, California
Nikon D3, Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G
1/60sec @ f/18, iso200, 14mm (14mm)
When people ask what sort of subject I like to shoot, I say, “nature,” but it’s been over a year since I’ve done any outdoor photography. I don’t know if my one dimensionality is an escape from [...]
I finally upgraded my copy of nik Color Efex Pro.1 It has this new feature called “u-point” which allows you to do zone system tone masking a lot like LightZone. This means I can finally edit without masks. The other advantage is it finally works again on the Mac version of Photoshop.
So [...]
DPReview has an excellent review of the 18-200mm Nikkor travel kit lens, a lens I happen to own.
I wait for Pizza with my Nikon camera (from side)
Patxi’s Pizza, Palo Alto, CA
Lumix DMC-LX1
1/3 sec @ f/2.8, iso 200, 6mm (28mm)
One criticism missing from the review is how annoyingly long the lens extends when zoomed—I’ll miss the [...]
Recently I think I’ve met two other people who have purchased Leica M8’s and on both those cameras, I think I saw a Cosina-Voigtländer 35mm f/1.2 Nokton lens. If so, that’s a strange coincidence because it is a very obscure lens.
Leica and Cosina
North Beach, San Francisco, California
Nikon D200, Nikkor 85mm f/1.4D, Canon 500D close-up filter
1/40sec [...]
I stopped by XYZ Bar to say bye to Joel B. Sacks, formerly of AdBrite and CNET. I came late and couldn’t stay for long.
Joel gets all the hotties
XYZ Bar, South of Market, San Francisco, California
Nikon D3, 14-24mm f/2.8G
1/6 sec @ f/2.8, iso 6400, 24mm (24mm)
Andrei left me my SB-800 so I did get to [...]
New camera, lens, and software…
First D3 photo
North Beach, San Francisco, California
Nikon D3, Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S
1/15sec @ f/2.8, iso 420, 14mm (14mm)
[There is a jump.]
I blame Merlin Mann of 43 folders. He’s the one who popularized Moleskines years ago.
How else can I explain that right after I wrote about my analog blog that Brian Moon pointed me to the very next xkcd about that. Which caused my friends to point out the sequel article:
Journal 2 by xkcd
Which gave me [...]
I stopped by the Lensbaby booth at Macworld and was talking to a rep there.
He let me mess with his Canon XTi and Lensbaby 2.0. Since I’ve systematically destroyed all my cameras, it has been a long while. When my hands grabbed the camera, it was electric—my hands were made for an SLR, my eyes [...]
Just heard something about me that was completely ridiculous and, at the same time, very funny. (I only wish it were true.)
To set the record straight:
Due to the ergodic hypothesis,
I was browsing through Facebook and I ran across Andrew Mager’s profile photo again. This time it was taken at the CNET holiday party.
I’ve been saying for a while now that I’m just going to compile all of his Facebook profile photos into a book and make bank. But I had to blog this one, [...]
