7/52-10 the Castillian at Night

This was an interesting and rather difficult 7/52. Sunday came and went with no thought at all for the week’s project. Monday came and went with no thought at all for the week’s project. Tuesday found me wide awake at 2am; up, showered, dressed for work, and sipping coffee by 3:45, with nowhere to go …

Phoneography Friday #4

For Photojojo University, class #1 An iPhone Camera Primer. The assignment: “Misuse the HDR setting on purpose. Shake your camera mid-shot while using HDR to get a sweet double-exposure effect.” Note: this is an outtake. You can follow my #PJUniversity coursework on Instagram @jamescockroft (note, however, that my profile is set to Private, so I’ll …

7/52-09 reflections

It started when I noticed some leaves reflected in the window of the open door. Out came the LX7, which captured the scene nicely-enough, but I wanted to shoot the D7000 and some manual lenses, so back went the LX7, and out came the D7000 and Vivitar 70-210mm f/3.5. The interaction between the eye/brain and …

Phoneography Friday #3

I had an idea to create a process post, with examples from every stage of a few minutes of app play, but then I ended up liking the original image far more than anything that came after… Maybe next week. Cortex Camera takes a dozen or so images and smashes them down into a single …

7/52-08 Macrobstractions

Well, I suppose I was a bit lazy this week, but I did want to shoot some Macro Abstractions again—it has been awhile, after all—and I am in the middle of building my own WordPress theme and doing some site optimization, so my shooting time was a bit limited. It was mostly laziness, though. At …