AKA One of these is not like the other Another week of not-really-focusing-on-shooting, and with very, very good reason that I’ll share sooner or later. I did manage to break off an hour or so on Wednesday, and another 15 minutes yesterday in order to make some pictures, and I’m thankful I got 7 that …
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7/52-16 a day with the Vivitar 50mm f/1.8
Well, I definitely broke a cardinal rule of the 7/52 this week… I only shot for the project on one day. I could make excuses—and the ones I have would be convincing and you would likely give me a pass, given the terrifyingly fabulous week I had—but I won’t. Suffice it to say, I was …
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7/52-15 LensBaby Week!!!1!
So I was pondering a theme for the week, couldn’t come up with anything better, so I decided it would be LensBaby Week. Yay. The LensBaby is a sort of toy tilt-shift lens with a pronounced sweet-spot (area of acceptable focus) and distinctive blur to everything else. I have the Muse with the plastic optic (no …
7/52-14 April Showers…
True to myth, April has been fairly rainy thus far, or was for two or three days this week. It’s a blessing here in North Texas, where we’re enduring a lengthy and moderate-to-severe (according to the National Drought Mitigation Center) drought, a curse to commuters, and a delight to my senses: the smell of ozone …
My departure aroused the neighbors’ curiosity
Shot while packing the car to leave Medicine Mound. More pics to follow, if anything from the D7000 or LX7 ends up worth sharing. iPhone 5. Pure camera app. Minor crop and slight edits in Filterstorm.
7/52-13 from where I sit (Hipstamatic vs. Plastica)
For this week’s 7/52, I decided to pit two toy camera apps against one another: Plastica, the relative newcomer, vs. the venerable Hipstamatic. For the most part, I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves and leave a proper review of Plastica for a time when I have more time to devote to it. First, though, …
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Phoneography Friday #7
It was a beautiful afternoon.