Last year, I installed a Solarcan pinhole camera in my girlfriend’s back yard. See? Blog post to prove it. But if you’re not feeling like reading an old blog post, I’ll give you the TL/DR. A Solarcan is a specially-prepared camera. It’s a beer can that contains a sheet of photographic paper inside. A tiny…
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“I’ll take 20 millimeters, please.”
I’m preparing for an upcoming photo project, and as much as I appreciate all my Nikon glass, I need something that’s ultrawide and totally within my budget. I mean, if I had $3,500 to drop on a 58mm f/1.2 Noct lens, I’d do it. But I have this thing called a budget, and I gotta…
Read MoreWelp, there goes my Belmont-at-Saratoga photo shoot this weekend.
My initial plan was to photograph during the Saratoga Race Course “Belmont” weekend (the track is hosting the Belmont Stakes and a few other days of racing while the Belmont track in New York undergoes renovations). I figured I do what I always do when the thoroughbreds race at Saratoga in August – bring my…
Read More#5 Win, Place, and Show
While experimenting with rapid-fire infrared shots in my modified Nikon Df camera, I wanted to see if the camera could capture high-speed images in this format. So I set up the camera at Saratoga Harness and tried to capture a rapid-fire photo burst of the horses as they crossed the grandstand. And here’s the best…
Read MoreMy last-ever roll of 35mm Fuji Velvia 100
Well, it happened. Two years after Fuji ended their Velvia 100 slide film stock, my supply of Fuji Velvia 100 has dried up. All gone. I have one 35mm cartridge left. And after that … all I have are two more 120-size rolls of the product. As for my 35mm stock, the only slide film…
Read MoreTulips with a medical lens
I really hadn’t planned on attending the Capital District’s TulipFest this year. I mean, you photograph one batch of tulips, you’ve photographed them all. But on Sunday morning, May 12, I had an idea. What would those tulips look like if I shot them with my new-to-me Nikkor medical 120mm lens? This could be interesting.…
Read MoreThe InfraChrome Kelvin Wedge
I’m developing plenty of comfort with this infrared-modified Nikon Df camera, and when I need it to capture a sweet black-and-white infrared image, it works admirably. But I want this camera to also capture infrared color images. I want that brilliant mix of magenta and turquoise that comes with a perfectly-set pack of Aerochrome 120…
Read MoreI did NOT have Sunspot AR3664 on my photographic Bingo card. Until now.
Okay, I’ll admit it. I’ve been a bit of an astrophotographic nerd of late. Three solar eclipses, two lunar eclipses, a couple of Milky Way captures, some star trails, and a meteor shower. But how about capturing one of the biggest sunspots ever? Yep. Did that last Friday. Apparently the sun is going through its…
Read MoreA slight change to the New York State Fair’s Photography Competition
Let’s make something clear. When you enter a photography competition, you must take some time and read the entry rules carefully. The rules determine, for example, the size of your print, its composition (framed or unframed, mounted or unmounted), the number of prints you are allowed to enter and whether you are limited to a…
Read MoreRaskolnikov meets the Saratoga, Corinth & Hudson Railroad
I haven’t used my super-ultra-wide Soviet Krasnogorsk FT-2 (“Raskolnikov”) camera in a long, long while. Maybe it’s just because I haven’t found a suitable subject to photograph with it … or maybe I’m developing photographer’s block with the camera. When I can get the camera to work to my advantage, I can get some incredible…
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