Data Protection and My Quest for the Perfect Storage System
I’ll admit it, I’m a little obsessed with making sure my data is secure. My friends think I’m insane, but I’ve spent years making photographs and have ripped my 3,000 CD music collection onto my computer, so the thought of having it all vanish due to a hard drive crash or a fire is just [...]
Why Buying Alien Bees Makes Sense
Dave Hobby has a fantastic, in-depth report on his blog detailing his time spent shooting with Alien Bees brand strobes. While not as gushing and glowing as most AB fan boy reports, the review hammers home an important point—buy what you need, not what you lust. As an avid gear nut, I’ve always agreed with [...]
What’s In My Bag?
Do a search on Flickr for “What’s in your bag?” and you’ll stumble upon thousands of photos of meticulously arranged junk. Looks like there’s a movement to photograph emptied out bags to show what people drag around with them all day. After every shoot, I empty out my Lowepro Roller 1, gather all the batteries [...]
Snow Leopard Glitches and Complaints
Image by Watchcaddy via Flickr At the behest of my art director, I ran out last Sunday and picked up Apple’s new operating system OSX 10.6—better known as Snow Leopard. Sure, I couldn’t figure out exactly what was being upgraded, but at $30, who was I to complain. Steve Jobs promised awesomeness, and dammit, I [...]
New iPhone Might Be The Ideal Camera Phone
Like most Mac Geeks, I spend my Monday huddled over my computer refreshing Engadget to find out what great things Uncle Steve and his merry band of designers had in store for us at WWDC. Turns out the rumors were true and Apple will be releasing a new iPhone 3Gs in the very near future [...]
Going Long
I fought the temptation for months, but Canon’s instate rebate program sucked me in just two days before it expired. I bought the Canon 2.8L 70-200mm IS lens and am battling with buyers remorse. Okay, maybe not. This is pretty much the powerhouse of Canon’s L series, with the ability to take some of the [...]
Macro Arabic
I’m sorting through the hundreds of photos I took in Spain in an attempt to make a photo book of the vacation. I’m not the best travel photographer, and I’m always a bit tough on my travel and architecture photography, but I think this is my favorite shot of the trip. I took it inside [...]
Toying Around
I have a Holga that I don’t play with enough. That should change soon enough. I recently bought a great book called “Plastic Cameras” by Michelle Bates that will hopefully inspire me. I’ll have a review up soon. This shot was taken in Philadelphia about a year ago.
New Toy: Canon 40D
I just traded in my Canon 30D for the new and improved 40D. After experiencing two days of buyers remorse, I realized just how badass this camera is. I’ve only shot one concert and gallery opening with it, but the shutter is fast as hell and the auto focus is just as quick. I haven’t [...]
White Stripes Go Lomo
Figured I’d kick off this blog with some pretty cool news. According to their PR people, The White Stripes have teamed up with camera manufacturers Lomography to produce two completely custom cameras; the ‘Jack’ Holga and the ‘Meg’ Diana+. The cameras are specially designed in conjunction with the band and will be available in both [...]
