The New Analog: Digicams Are Back On The Street!

Mom .... where's my old pocket cam??? Mom: "You mean the one you said we could throw out because you have the $20,000 Funu 10k Hologram capable camera with volumetric 4d stabilization? .... Your dad uses is to post Instagram pics of his pet shrimp." "I need it back ..... nobody is using expensive cameras for street photography anymore - Dad can use my Funu 10k Hologram cam for his shrimp pictures." Mom: "You want to use a $70 camera for you photography projects?!? But ...." .... yup. It Happened. No ... analog is not gone. Ektachrome is back, but…

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Bad Lighting: That Big Grey Cloud

Well, at least you can see some of it ...   Lighting .... when it's great, it's great.  When it's bad .... ^%$&^$!!!!   You have you day planned out, the fall colors are starting to look amazing, the cool crispness of the air invigorates you ..... and they you see that pin-spot of light on the area you want to shoot. No camera can compensate for that, I don't car how good the new A.I. is in the image processor. Well, you get what you can, and then more on to post processing. Too bad you can't go back…

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The Edit: Gimp or Krita

  Time to edit. You took your photos, now make them beautiful pieces of art .....     {{deer in the headlights look}} ....     Ummmm ..... huh? But, Mom said they're already beautiful?     {{eyeroll}} ..... is Mom buying any?     Ummmm ..... no.     {{groan}}     >> This is the time when you realize as a photographer your potential to NEVER leave the house and why your mother buys Valium pills by the gallon.   Your photos are amazing .... and they actually may be.   Here is the reality .... you either now…

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Time Travel with Photography Part 2: Straight Into The Present

  Above is am image taken with a Spartus Full-Vue Camera 2.25 inch square (6x6 format). Image on the right is a picture of that camera. The image above was only cropped to an approx 4in x 6in ratio and was not cleaned up. It definitely doesn't look like it was shot with a modern digital camera where the images is all crisp and perfect, although it was taken on modern unexpired film in approx 2020. There are many things that affect this end image product in modern times, and we will go into a little detail on that later.…

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Time Travel with Photography Part 1: Aged Film and Memories

    One of the easiest ways to time travel (less the monsters,mutants, and expensive cinema cameras) is through photography. The capability of film and a great (or most likely crappy) lens to take you back seventy plus years. The photo above was taken with the camera pictured to the left. Less the design of the boats, it's really hard to tell whether the pic was taken in 2020 or 1953. The imperfect focusing of the lens, slightly blown out highlights from a set shutting time, fogginess in the distance due to the films age .... all take you back…

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Lenses: The Ultimate Addiction

Yep ... it's the other reason your spouse or partner throws you out of the house, besides the $9000 camera body. Usually the camera body thing is more easily forgiven ... because you have usually only purchased one and you can more easily be seen as repentant for doing so. Even from a psychological point of view, it's easier to not get into a camera body addiction than a lens addition. I mean, once you've spent $9000 on a camera body, it's pretty satisfying ... sort of like buying a sports car - when you've got a 500hp Mustang you…

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Rivalries: You shoot a what????

You shoot a what???? Rivalries are everywhere there is a personal or professional preference for something. Sports teams, game consoles, and of course ... cameras. Many of these rivalries started with legitimate competition that set them in play (ie. the neighboring high school or college football teams where one always seems to be the underdog, soccer (or as many would say "real football")), etc. In the camera world there are many reasons this happened (there is a link below to a great article by the Latin America Post that sheds light on more recent ones and some history). I'm a…

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