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Last month we purchased the Sony WX80 because we wanted a camera that was small (tiny, actually), lightweight and easy to operate. I shot this at the Rochester Institute of Technology campus yesterday. Except for some minor editing in LR4, which was crop and opening up the shadows a bit, this shot came right out of the camera. The display was easy to see in harsh light and the zoom lens was easy to operate. I think we’ll be very happy to have this little guy around.
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Cruise nights have started again and these are a selection from 6/14/13. Over 400 cars, free admission, great food and some nice rides, what more can you ask? Just click on any image to enter the gallery.
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It finally stopped raining today but I tried to get some images between the drops. I like shooting plants and flowers in the rain because the light is usually nice and even and there are no harsh shadows. Plus I like the look of the rain drops on them.
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Since this sign is about 4 inches away from this shed I couldn’t read it but it probably says “PLACE SHED HERE”.
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The photo above is not a black and white with selective color.
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Not too long ago Andy at LensScaper posted images from the old Kodalith film process along with a very nice description of the process. Briefly, it used a Graphic Arts high contrast film to produce black and white images without any gray tones. About the same time Andy produced his image, I made the one above which combined a negative and positive high contrast lith films slightly out of register to give a line drawing effect. It was made for an album cover for the artist. I loved the look and process but it was tedious and expensive and I had all but forgotten about it. The LensScaper post made me try to duplicate the negative/positive out of register in digital just for fun. It’s actually quite easy and, at no cost, very affordable. Below are first images I tried using digital techniques.
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This is of the Quad building at the University of Rochester, taken on a snowy winter day.
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This is also at the Uof R. It’s the auditorium where the orchestra plays. This was also taken on the same day as the above photo.
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Ehpem had an excellent post recently featuring beautiful iris photos. I love irises and, since ehpem did a terrific job on the flowers, I thought I’d post some photos of the foliage from ours.
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The Ninebark is doing extremely well this spring, too.
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One of my winter projects was to convert some old slides and negatives to digital. Winter is over but I’m far from done. I soon realized that it was an impossible task to digitize everything so I decided to work on the material I liked best. In the selection process I asked myself if I would shoot that image today, since I know my tastes have changed quite a bit since some of these old shot were taken. There is obviously a lot of stuff that is not scan-worthy but this image is one of my favorites. A print of this has been hanging in our house for more than 20 years and I still like it. It was taken in downtown Rochester and was a sign over an old movie theater that had shown it’s last movie years earlier. It’s long gone now but I still have this slide.
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