A few videos of Bruce Gilden, a New York photographer. He’s known as a street photographer, and a rather invasive one. He gets right up in people’s faces and photographs them with a flash. It […]
Category: photography
Photographers are _kin’ crazy
YAAAAH! YAAAAAAH! I needed to photograph some of my artwork (I’m a painter, too), and was looking at my old digital camera rig— a Nikon D40 digital SLR, which was a popular entry-level camera in […]
Yashica D
I had this camera sitting on a shelf for several years, and I finally got it working this summer: a Yashica D, medium-format, twin-lens reflex camera from the late 50s or early 60s. It’s a […]
Toy cameras
When I started taking pictures, I was following the made-up Lomography “ethic”, in which you’re supposed to take your camera with you always, and get pictures of everything and nothing, all the time. The idea was […]
More options for cheap film rigs
After the last photo post I got excited to do more film photography, and what better way to motivate myself to do that than to BUY MORE GEAR. Usually that’s a bad idea; GAS, the […]
A cheap portrait lens for your Nikon digital SLR
Just did a little photo job, and realized something I should’ve figured out years ago— well, it something I knew about, but wasn’t exploiting. If you aren’t conversant in basic camera lingo, you might want […]
Gordon Willis 1931-2014
Still from Manhattan, by Gordon Willis When thinking of an era in the arts where there’s a strong zeitgeist, I always feel that there a large field of people working within a style, doing this […]
A few old photos
Digging through my archives for imagery for the cover of my new record, and rescanning some of my old negatives, today. Here are a few pictures I took in Rome several years ago:
Holi
Here is a gallery of some incredible photos from the Holi festival in India. Do hit the link.
Until I figure out how to get Heineken to pay me.
I’m debuting my new header image today, a photo of the stage from my time on the Empress of the North, a river boat on the Columbia. I guess maybe the old picture of me […]
Processing black & white film
I was going to write up a how-to for developing your own black and white film, but it wouldn’t really be any improvement on the one I started with, from Justin Ouellette’s Chromogenic.net. It’s actually […]
The cheapest 35mm rig.
I want to say cheapest and best 35mm autofocus SLR, but my knowledgeable friends would no doubt descend and tear me apart like a Thanksgiving turkey on prom night. So let’s say best “cheapest : […]