Photography | James Cockroft

365.57 Ohne Titel (and a friend…)

I made 150-odd photos today, trying (in vain) to capture a macro version of yesterday’s optical illusion with the crayons.

I got some interesting-enough shots,...

365.56 Optical Illusion

The idea for this came quickly, but took many tries to execute (poorly). It looks better as a thumbnail, fyi.

D7000, 75-150mm f/3.5 E Series...

365.55 Wino (3rd Attempt): Take it Easy…

I’ve been sober for almost 2 years.

But some days, I really feel like tying one on…

Maybe tomorrow. For now, though, it’s clean up the...

365.54 Wino (Second Attempt): One Too Many

Once again, not happy, but oh well. I’m not happy with much of anything today: nothing in the way of sleep last night… Oh...

365.53 Wino (first attempt)

Even though I’m always already asleep by the time their Studio Photography Insights hangout starts, I’m still going to try my hand...

365.52 Point of Impact, part 7: Liquid Metal

Aluminum roasting pans were on sale at the Fiesta for $1 each, so I bought a rectangular one and an oval one…

I wondered what...

365.50 Point of Impact, part 5: Small Craft on Milky Sea

And once again, this took a long time…

And once again, I’m too tired to say anything about this shot…

D7000, Nikon 75-150 f/3.5 Series E...

365.49 Point of Impact, part 5: Shearing Forces

I was wondering when I was going to resort to macro…

D7000, Lens Baby Muse (plastic), with +10 Macro lens, ISO400, 1/50th, f/5.6. I lit...

365.48 Point of Impact – part 2 – Ist es nicht sehr schön?

And this one really was fun! And it went quickly too!

I did tear half the apartment apart to get the camera in a position...

365.47 Point of Impact, part 2: Dizzy

Well, this was a fun one…

D7000, Nikkor 10-24mm f/3.5 – 4.5 at 10mm (15mm equivalent), ISO100, 1/60th, f/6.3; SB-700 with its Florescent filter thing,...

365.46 Point of Impact (1)

This is the passenger side door handle from my beloved (and no-longer-extant) 1970 Volkswagon Beetle—a plain Beetle, none of that ‘super’ stuff—that was destroyed...

Obey Dallas – continued, ammended

Apparently, there was some interwebs chatter regarding Shepard Fairey and his status as a sellout following his recent DJ appearance and muraling in Dallas. I...

365.45 Abstraktes Bild

Momma is a big fan of spectra. She has a 14 color spectrum of yarn on top of some bookshelves. She has a 6...

365.44 HDR, the Easy Way

365.44 HDR, the Easy Way (or, More Multifun Fun, or, again, I couldn’t think of anything to shoot, so I shot this, or, “the...

The Americana Lens from Hipstamatic

Hipstamatic offered up a new lens and case today. Here are some example shots of the lens with a few of my favorite films.

365.43 Buddha and the Comet

I feel like I’m going backwards. Forty-three days in and this is what I show up with? Jeez.

D7000, Nikon 75-150 f/3.5 E Series at...

Hipstamatic Disposable update 9 – the El Mario camera

Desaturated. Orange Light Leaks. A Sort-Of Interesting Border.

If I start up another one of these, I’ll be turning the light leaks off and shooting...

Hipstamatic Disposable update 8 – the Gregory GR8 camera

Well…

I find Gregory GR8 pretty meh.

Fat White Border. Faded Orange Color Overlay To Make It Look Old.

Good brightness and clarity overall, but not so...

365.42 Ohne Titel

I sorta ran myself out of time, what with a mid-week grocery run, fetching diesel for Hank the Golf, paying off bills, and other...

365.41 Maneki Neko

I started out today’s 365 time with plans on doing some more multiple exposure experiments, intending to try to make this little Maneki Neko...

365.40 Multeh Bokeh

On with my experiments in multiple exposure. This time: testing what happens when multiple exposures meet shallow depth of field.

I started out with a...

Obey Dallas

DJ Shepard Fairey (!) performed at the Dallas Contemporary last night (despite my interest in graffiti and street art, I didn’t attend…), and...

Downtown McKinney Photo Walk

When I uploaded and started looking at the photos from today’s photowalk in McKinney, TX with the Dallas Photo Walk MeetUp group, I realized...

365.38 Abstraktes Bild

ISO400, 1/8000th, f/2.

This shot was taken as part of the Downtown McKinney Photowalk with the Dallas Photo Walk MeetUp Group.

365.37 Meh Multifun

So I stumbled across “Photographic Impressionism” early this morning, and spent the bulk of the work day with a few things I read about...

365.36 His Nobs

Homage JPB

This took a long honking time for a quick after-work shoot. Jeez.

I started out just wanting to play with flash some… then...

365.35 The Birth of Clouds

The clouds have been rather amazing lately, and today I managed to get around to shooting before they all returned to the sky or...

365.34 Fully Automatic, Fully Adjusted

This began as three jpegs, shot in full auto -2–0–+2 bracketed, merged to HDR in Photoshop CS5.5 and shipped out with some custom slider...

365.33 Abstraktes Bild

And this time I had some fun!

Yesterday, I shot four subjects for 5 hours and ended up just picking a bad picture to share...

365.32 Unmade Landscape

I’m wholly dissatisfied with today’s 365 efforts, but I’ve been at it for 5 hours, and it’s now time to join some neighbors for...

365.31 The Motherlode

Nikon D7000, Nikkor 50mm 1.8G, deliberately defocused, ISO100, 1/250th sec. @ f/1.8. SB-700 zoomed to 50mm, 1/128th power, on Cactus V5 trigger handheld lower...

365.30 Afternoon (De)Light #2

or, “I should really think about cleaning my windows…”

The the afternoon light bounces around in fabulous ways here at the Grigsby. The shaft of...

Hipstamatic Disposable update 7 – the Unicorn MG camera

Well this camera was a waste of 99 cents. Jeez.

In one or two of the shots, I cranked down the effect, but I’ll dare...

365.29 Tacoma

365.29 Tacoma (for lack of a better title… I’m feeling really out of it today… I guess I could call it ‘the Arrival’ or...

365.28 Supernova

And this is the fastest 365 shoot yet… 7 shots of the inside of the CerealBoxStripBox and this was number 7, straight out of...

365.27 Stop Popping that Damn Flash in My Face!

Ladies & Gentlemen, meet Olive. She’s really very very sweet, and terribly fluffy, but she would prefer to nap without being interrupted by a...

365.26 playing with a magnifying glass and bounce flash

ISO1250 (I was trying to shoot in the dark, then added the SB700 but forgot to change the ISO :facepalm:. Luckily, the...

365.25 – The Cereal Box Strip Box

365.25 Candy & Cigarettes: Monumental Sculpture from the Cockroft Collection. (Yes, it’s a silly title, and yes, I could’ve done a better job with...

Bishop Arts Photowalk

So last night I was out shooting the Fort Worth skyline with the DFW Photography Club...

365.24 Bokeh Bulb

From the Bishop Arts PhotoWalk…

Sigma 30mm 1.4, ISO100, 1/2000, f/1.4

Fort Worth Skyline MeetUp

The DFW Photography Club of Texas MeetUp Group met up last night to shoot the Fort Worth Skyline. I managed to make it out,...

365.23 Deliberately Defocused

Deliberately Defocused (and deliberately uploaded a day late because I got back from the meetup way after my bedtime…)

During the ‘shoot Fort Worth’s skyline’...

365.22 The Spy Who Loved Me

Nikkor 50mm 1.8G, ISO100, 0.6 seconds, f/11.

365.21 Ohne Titel

I was looking for some sort of nice surrealistic title, something from a de Chirico painting or something, or maybe a nice Fire Marshall...

365.20 Ivan vs. the LensBaby

I was feeling a bit worn out, creatively speaking, and had no idea what I wanted to shoot for the 365, so I strapped...

365.19 D7000 Family Portrait

Families the world over are glad they didn’t pay me to take a family portrait today…

365.19 D7000 Family Portrait, versions 1 & 2

On the...

365.18 It’s a LensBaby, baby!

Had Christmas with Momma today, and got exactly what I asked for: a LensBaby Muse with a plastic optic…

Can you say ‘Bokeh?’ Wow.

The little...

365.17 Entropy

Find a Penny, Pick it Up, and All the Day, You’ll Have Good Luck!

I don’t know if that applies to these pennies, which have...

Hipstamatic Disposable update 6 – the failure that was the BlacKeys 44 camera

You might have noticed the complaint about saving speed and the misleading “Saved!” pop-up that I copied and pasted into the four updates to...

Hipstamatic Disposable update 5 – the Rodney ZX9 camera

I really like the double-exposure-ish effect in the Rodney ZX9 camera, but can totally do without the rainbow brite light leak. Hopefully the slider...