The North Texas Photography Explorers MeetUp Group met up at the White Rock dog park for some sunrise shooting and general photowalking last Saturday. It was cold, and I lost my mojo by about 7:30, and I tried a sort of experiment that largely failed, but I had a good time and ended up with 2 …
Author Archives: James Cockroft
7/52-07 Pinholed
After reading a post on Google+, and checking out Robert Rath’s writeup of his Transit of Venus through-a-pinhole shot, I decided it was time to make a pinhole lens and see how the D7000 fared with an optic even more rudimentary than the Holga 60mm f/8. Step one: procure supplies. In this case, supplies consisted …
Phoneography Friday #1
In an ongoing attempt to get more content onto this blog in a more regular fashion, I present the first in what I hope will be a long series of Phoneography Fridays. (I wonder if that should be “Phoneography Phriday” or maybe “Foneography Friday”?) I probably won’t say much about these shots, maybe describe the …
Midweek Macro #1
In an attempt to get content onto the blog more regularly, I’ve decided to attempt a couple of personal themes, the first of which is Midweek Macro. These are some little buds that are growing from a patch of moss in a flowerbed downstairs. I shot it with the LX7, manual focus, in AP mode, autoISO …
7/52-06 coming up squares
I struggled a bit for a theme early in the week, but remembered or read something about pre-visualizing aspect ratios (perhaps here) and decided to try pre-visualizing square crops from the 4×3 aspect ratio of the iPhone. It proved remarkably easy to do, somehow. I expected it to be considerably harder. But despite succeeding at this …
Dallas Zoo Photowalk
A new toy arrived on Friday and—quite coincidentally—Saturday was the Penguin Days at the Dallas Zoo Photowalk with the Dallas Photo Walk MeetUp Group. My first thought was to take the LX7 (with its 24-90mm zoom range) and the D7000 with the Vivitar 70-210 to have a nice range of coverage. Then I remembered I have about a …
7/52-05 Zomb-E Week
It was a fairly grey and gloomy week here in North TX. Several grey days, a couple of rainy days, and a general sort of mental/emotional/physical malaise descended around me early on, and hasn’t really let up. I expect the personal stuff is diet-related, as I’ve cut out out the sugar-and-junk-food binging I’d been enjoying …