Recently I bought some conversion rings to fit some old Nikon lenses onto my current Canon bodies. I’m using these as back-ups. This 135mm in particular, I want to use a portrait lens. Katie was going to be walking around the Quarter shooting still life, so I joined her to test out my lens (and [...]
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January 6, 2011
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Tested my new (old) 135mm f/2.8
By jOe in French Quarter, Just for Photographers, Reviews
January 4, 2011
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Selling it.
By jOe in DIY, Just for Photographers, Photo ShootSaturday, I put a lens on eBay, and being a photographer, I didn’t want to just do a snap shot, so I did a quick little set up. I learned a few things, made a few mistakes, but on the whole, I got a couple images that were good enough for my eBay purposes. Here [...]
December 30, 2010
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Care and the Fam: DIY lighting set-up
By jOe in DIY, Family, Just for Photographers, Photo ShootIn this shoot, I wanted to “create” a seamless white background with two lights (three if you count the ambient, but in this case it was almost non-existent). If you scroll to the bottom, you can see I tagged this under “DIY.” My DIY posts are essentially about working with ‘on-location’ restraints. In this case, it was [...]
December 27, 2010
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Make-shift studio
By jOe in DIY, Just for Photographers, Photo Shoot, PortraitsKristin wanted to give her parents new pictures for Christmas. This made me excited because I was wanting to try a new trick. Creating a seamless white background…without a seamless white background. The idea is simple, throw-up a sheet, put a flash or two to shoot through from the back, and voilà. A seamless white. [...]
December 21, 2010
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Macro Christmas: DIY
By jOe in DIY, Holidays, Just for Photographers, Photo ShootSo, in case you don’t know, Macro means ‘close up’ in photography. If you have a point and shoot camera, macro is the “flower” setting. If you have an SLR you can do two things: get a macro lens (and unless you do a lot of macro, I’d say skip that and save the dollars), [...]
December 14, 2010
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A quickie on taking pictures
By jOe in Garden District, Just for Photographers, TechnologyI took this picture yesterday evening on my phone. I think it was actually the first time I ever used the zoom function (that’s not really important to this post, I’m just proud of myself and wanted to broadcast my mad-skills). But the “quickie” from the title is this: look below at how drab the [...]
December 10, 2010
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Sharpening
By jOe in Just for Photographers, Reviews, TechnologyMy Dad sent me this quick video on image sharpening. I haven’t played around to see how this translates for Aperture 3 users, but I think more people probably use Adobe’s Lightroom. So, it’s a good one.