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Before Bed

Canon EOS 5D w/EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM (digital color)
Taken over the holidays, I really like the light in this photo and it really shows off the 5D and the IS lens well. Taken at 1/15 (!) and an ISO of 1600, it came out better than I thought it would. I did do [...]

A little quiet time

Canon EOS 5D w/EF 50mm f/1.4 USM (digital color)

Lights and shadows

Canon EOS 40D w/EF 85mm f/1.8 USM (digital color)

Canon EOS 40D w/EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM (digital color)

Canon EOS 40D w/EF-s 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM (digital color)

No sun. No shadow.

Canon EOS 40D w/EF-s 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM (digital color)
When the weather’s bad…

Olympus XA2 using Kodak Portra 400NC
…we have to play indoors.

Shadow season continues

Morning

Afternoon

Amanda

Canon EOS 40D w/EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Exposure: 1/3000 sec
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 135 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: -1 EV
Went out Sunday afternoon to scout Chapel Dulcinea as location for a wedding shoot, which has since fallen through. I was basically doing them a favor, but it’s still rather annoying. Luckily, the trip wasn’t a total loss, [...]

Behind the Scenes

Magicians aren’t supposed to reveal their secrets. Luckily this rule doesn’t really apply to photography.
After yesterday’s post on my obsession with a light fixture, I remembered this photo which I took a while back. It should give everyone a good idea of the lighting situation that I’m working with and how it may vary at [...]

Fixtures

Olympus XA2 using Kodak Portra 400NC
The latest in one of my photo-obsessive series in which I shoot the same subject over and over, using various combinations of cameras, lenses, and film. The subject of this series, a light fixture in a stairwell, happens to be one of my favorite subjects. I love the shape and [...]

Early

Canon EOS 1N using Kodak Ultra Color 400
This fall my wife, Amanda, started a new job and while we’re both excited about the direction of her career, there has been one drawback. Getting her up and out to her new office meant getting up an hour earlier than we used to. It has not been [...]

Morning

I’ve been working on a series of “Morning” photos for a while now and I’ll probably show more of them in the future. Not much explanation needed here, as it’s pretty easy to see what draws me to a photo like this. It’s all about the light, the shadow and the sense of time they [...]