I had given up hope. Last year, I submitted five of my black-and-white images – Washington County 2:30 a.m., The Jumbuck, Farrell, The Walkway and Lane 2 to an online competition. The competition, organized by a photography company called LensCulture, promised that if I paid an additional fee, I would receive a professionally-written review of…
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A postcard from the Iowa State Fair, 2019 Edition
The oblong canary yellow postcard is in my mailbox right now. That card contains information on whether any of my pictures made it through to the walls of the Iowa State Fair’s 2019 Photography Salon. I can’t take any chances here. This is my fifth attempt to earn silk in Iowa. In 2017, two of…
Read MoreThe Invasion (or: one more Corinth Reservoir starry night shot)
So last Thursday night, instead of photographing the fireworks downtown, I chose to go uptown – uptown in the Adirondacks – and photograph a clear starry night. I captured a Milky Way cluster, and I also caught a sweet reflection of the Big Dipper in the Corinth Reservoir water. I had one other experiment, and…
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Instead of stars and stripes – how about a stripe made of stars?
To be honest, I thought about going to the Empire State Plaza and photographing the fantastic fireworks show. I really did. And then I remembered it would be a freakin’ furnace there. 100 degrees in the shade. And the Empire State Plaza HAS NO SHADE. I then thought about an auxiliary shooting spot, and after…
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Recharge time at Thatcher Park
It’s Sunday morning, and the Capital District weather has shifted between overcast, sunny and rainy. It’s like my favorite joke about the Capital District’s weather – if you don’t like it, wait ten minutes and it will change. With that in mind, I went up to Thatcher Park for a quick walkabout and a moment…
Read MoreA return to the “Ladies Entrance” sign
Last year, my model friend Muse posed in front of a distressed sign on North Lake Avenue in Albany. The picture, Ladies Make Their Own Entrances, later found its way to the Historic Albany Foundation’s BUILT charitable auction. The other day, as I’m testing out some redscale film in my Leica M3 camera (“Leica Green”),…
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“Don’t mind the weeds, the car’s still driveable…”
As we approach the deadline for many of my Competition Season entries, I’m still looking for an awesome infrared picture to get into the mix. Now with color infrared film, you definitely want some mixture of organic and non-organic subjects in the picture. You know … something with a little creeping ivy, or a bit…
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One frame in the mystery roll … do not EIR with these shots …
So I was cleaning up around my apartment and I found this one canister of Kodak EIR 35mm infrared film. Woah. Do you know what this is? It’s Kodak’s ultra-rare color infrared film. This stuff is like finding a Black Lotus card in a Magic: The Gathering pack. But here’s the problem. I don’t know…
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It’s not just an XTC song…
All right. I want to use some of my experimental film for this project. A quick check of my archives revealed I had four packs of Revolog boutique film – Revolog is an Austrian company who makes small batches of distressed 35mm film, that when processed provides striking colors or scratches or stripes or what…
Read MoreHow to focus stack in Photoshop CS6 for tack-sharp images
I’ve spent time working on focus stacking my macro images. But I’ve been inconsiderate. I should share my techniques with you, my blog readers, in case you want to try this on your own. So here’s my first-ever tutorial on how to use Photoshop (I have the CS6 version) to take multiple images and convert…
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