Posts Tagged ‘5D’

Stop! Did you hear that sound?

April 11, 2012 | No comments yet

It was soft, hard to hear. You had to be lis­ten­ing care­fully to have heard it at all. It was quick, ephemeral, but dis­tinc­tive. It was the sound of my 1D mark III shuf­fling to the num­ber 2 posi­tion. Still respected, still rel­e­vant, but no longer the top dog. I just fin­ished read­ing Zack Arias’s review […]

Taking a Step Back

March 19, 2012 | No comments yet

Today is going to be a lit­tle bit of a con­tin­u­a­tion of what I wrote after Tracy Turpen’s death a few months ago. I real­ize that was the moment when my renewed ini­tia­tive to post reg­u­larly went by the way­side. I don’t think it’s cause and effect, exactly, but it gave me some per­spec­tive, and […]

Then and Now

February 9, 2012 | No comments yet

The other day, while doing some pho­to­graphic housekeeping–moving files around, mak­ing sure things were backed up, orga­nized, etc.–I came across a folder I’d titled “Desk­top Pix.” Peri­od­i­cally, when I have a pho­to­graph that strikes me par­tic­u­larly from a shoot, I set it aside, resize it for my desk­top, and use it on my com­puter until […]

The Canon 1Dx: A Story of Excess

January 5, 2012 | No comments yet

I want to start off by apol­o­giz­ing for an unabashedly gear-focused post–I gen­er­ally strive to write about tech­nique, cre­ativ­ity, vision, and com­po­si­tion over tech-specs and gear, because I think it’s all too easy to get caught up in the gear and for­get what you’re really try­ing to do. Still, I work with this gear and […]

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