With a few days off during the Christmas break, and with the weather being absolutely beautiful, I decided to take a long walk with a camera and make some monochrome (black-and-white) images. The camera I chose for my walk was the Canon SX700HS, a higher-end point and shoot model from 2015. A friend of mine…
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In photography news this week was the announcement that Leica introduced their most recent camera, the Q3 “Monochrom,” a black-and-white only digital camera. Leica is the most prestigious camera brand in the world, and although I never used one, I know several people who have, including at least one photographer who had a Monochrom (Leica’s…
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I recently learned of a fun hack photographers can perform on the Sony DCS-F828 digital camera of 2002 vintage. I happen to have a sort-of-working F828 in my photo closet, so I thought I’d try it out. The fact that I just learned about it doesn’t mean it’s new. It only means that I stumbled…
Continue reading →The power was out at home this morning, so I opened up all the shades and curtains. The light was extraordinary, so I reached for my Fujifilm X-T10, set it to a black-and-white film simulation mode, and made some pictures. This could also be called Monochrome Challenge: Powerless.
Continue reading →There are a few digital cameras on the market today that have monochrome sensors. These sensors work the same way that color sensors work, in that each pixel, or picture element, senses the amount of light that strikes it. The key difference is that color sensors have one of three, red, green, or blue, filters…
Continue reading →With the recent death of my wife of 17 years, Abby, I had a few days off to unwind and organize. Fellow photographers Robert Stinson and Mackenzee Crosby met last week for a bite, then a photo walk in Ada’s famous Francis Wintersmith Park. I make pictures with a lot of different photographers as a…
Continue reading →An intriguing feature in my Fujifilm X-T10 is film simulation bracketing. When turned on, shooting one frame creates three JPEG files of the shot, each set to one of Fuji’s film simulations. You can choose which three film simulation modes you want in the menu. In this case, I told the camera to create one…
Continue reading →Our patch of southern Oklahoma just received more snowfall that in the last ten years combined. Our mighty Irish wolfhound Hawken couldn’t wait to romp around in it.
Continue reading →I worked for a short time at The Daily Times in Ottawa, Illinois, in 1988, with a very talented young photographer named Harold Krewer. We often challenged each other to feature photo shoot-offs, and it raised us both up in quality, and it was very fun.
Continue reading →I was the swing-shift photographer at The Shawnee News-Star from November 1985 through April 1988. I was partnered with a talented former Vietnam Air Force member Ed Blochowiak. Between us we made some great images and won some awards. Ed spent his entire career at the News-Star, and, sadly, died just two months after retiring…
Continue reading →I had been at The Ada Evening News (now, The Ada News) just six weeks when I photographed the Ada Cougars winning their 15th state championship in December 1988 at Oklahoma State University’s Lewis Field. Most of the action and trophy photos were published in the sports section that Sunday. I was looking through a…
Continue reading →My readers will recall that after the first hard freeze of the year, Hawken the Irish wolfhound and I expand our walk to include a large area of woods to the west of our home. If we exhaust all the trails in a single walk, which we often do, it comes to about three miles…
Continue reading →Abby and I rewatched Three Days of the Condor recently, and enjoyed it immensely. When I was about 16 I saw this movie, starring Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway. Dunaway portrays Kathy, a photographer who gets tangled up in the intrigue. In her apartment, Redford, whose character is Joe Turner, looks at some of her…
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