The greens of summers. Paul Simon may have sung proudly about his Nikon camera and his Kodachrome, but those greens he mentioned, well they were really and truly the domain of Velvia. For me, Velvia 50 was the end-all-be-all of film for landscape photography. I discovered it when I was 19 years old in the...
Stanford Memorial Church at 36.3 megapixels The Stanford Memorial Church was the location of the very first image I published on this blog! For a look at the outside of the church under an eclipsed solstice moon, click here.. By this point, the internet is fairly full of Nikon D800 reviews. Photographers from around the...
What is light field photography? A friend of mine recently purchased a Lytro camera – a slender rectangle of anodized aluminum housing a 35-280mm f/2.0 equivalent lens. He showed up, quite unexpectedly the other day and offered me the chance to borrow it for a few days (Thanks Matt!). In the spirit of sharing, I...
Ida Noyes Hall, Spring 2010 Once upon a time, nearly a year ago now, I returned for a brief period to The University of Chicago, camera in tow. I visited a few of my favorite cavernous spaces, still packed to bursting with memories that grow older every day. Some of the massive panoramic images I...
On portraiture. For an amateur, and even for some professionals, what you photograph is who you are. There is a booming community of self-portraitists out there in the world, some very talented, filling the pages of flickr’s explore with their faces, poses, composite images etc. I’ve never gotten into this kind of photography, chiefly because...
