Archive for December, 2007

What Will 2008 Bring?

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Like most enthusiast photographers, I am expecting 2008 to put some new technologies into our hands. Here’s a bunch of rumors about potential new digital cameras coming out in 2008 that I’ve collected from the web. They also happen to be cameras that I’m eagerly anticipating, not because I want to own them any [...]

Updated 12-28-2007: How to Light Coins

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Update: for some obscure reason I omitted to detail the shooting technique in my initial post. Here it is now, after the original article.
I won’t claim that I have become the master of coin lighting but here’s my take on this subject. Applying some of the Strobist techniques that I’ve been assimilating for such a [...]

Unlocking the Stroboscopic Feature of the Sigma 500DG Super Flash

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Take a look at these 2 pictures. Yes, I know, they are poor shots, directly lit by the flash (oh noes!) and don’t even seem to have a purpose. They look like multi-exposures but they are not. They might have been done by strobe-painting, where you would keep the shutter open for a few seconds [...]

Round the Block

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Yesterday it snowed hard for the first time this winter. After dark I decided to take a walk around the block and shoot some photos with the Canon 50mm f/1.4. All images are shot at ISO 800 and above.
Note: Click on the images for a larger version.

Tire tracks in snow, ISO 800.

Light halo around a [...]