So the week of August 18 found me in Costa Rica… a business trip to train some new team members. It was quite exciting for two reasons: 1) it was my first time to Costa Rica (or anywhere south of the Rio Grande); 2) it was my first business trip. Guess what? The second first …
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7/52-34 Costa Rica!
7/52-33 Oh! Baby give me one more chance!
The poor old Tokina AT-X 35-200mm f/3.5-4.5 has been languishing on a shelf, staring forlornly out at me and begging for just one more chance since I finished shooting for that review I wrote back in November 2012. Given that I didn’t really have much of a clue what to shoot this week, no ideas …
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Playing with DistressedFX
I don’t much go for distressed filters these days, but I quite like Distressed FX. Distressed FX offers 19 color/treatment filters (plus Birds!) and 17 scratch layers (plus the ability to create custom scratch designs), and the ability to tune the intensity of the filters. It’s also possible to make simple tweaks to color, brightness, …
7/52-32 Holga!
*when reading the above title, it may be helpful to imagine Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire. A week with the Holga 60mm f/8 has been on my list for quite some time, and I finally did it. With some more time, I think this cheap hunk of plastic has some possibilities, but I think …
7/52-31 exposing to the right
How many times have I tried to shoot at night for this project? And how many times did I shoot at night during 2012’s 365 project? In any of those times, did I ever try to find a manual setting that would capture color and light the way I saw it? Of course not. So …
7/52-30 Fold(s)
I downloaded VSCOcam in early July, but hadn’t taken it for a proper test yet: one of those (many) impulse camera app purchases/downloads that I only rarely regret, as most are worth the free or $0.99 cost. I read that it was nice, simple, and powerful, and thought it might be a fun addition to …
