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Clearly, if you’re experiencing a drought just have Joe and myself visit, you’ll get plenty of rain. We met up for the now almost customary lunch at Dinosaur and then set out on a meandering path around downtown. We didn’t really shoot much until we inevitably arrived at Rochester’s current high profile disaster: Midtown. There’s certainly a lot less Midtown than there was the last time I was down there but it seems like the progress has slowed. With big questions hanging in the air regarding what will actually wind up in Midtown I suppose that’s not surprising.
As we walked we also took time to notice blue lines mysteriously painted on the sidewalk and that the birds seemed to have a preference for which tree to poop under in a row of identical trees. I also reflected on the fact that I’m glad I’ve learned to pack less gear for these walks, it’s nice being able to stand straight when you are done!
And by practical I mean a waste of $100 (plus shipping). Check it out at LockCircle.com.
In other news it’s been a crazy month. New things really will be coming up soon, I promise!
Not the first HDR video demonstration but perhaps one of the first video cameras built solely for the purpose. I’m not sure when my eyes started bleeding but I was definitely grimacing when they flicked the tonemapping switch, some of those settings were just awful. We definitely need overdone horrible HDR in full motion video, that will definitely be an improvement. They really know how to pick exciting demonstration videos too, don’t they? Video capture in HDR surely has its place but the tasteful application will separate appealing from obnoxious. It will be interesting to see if something like this sees wider adoption. As with photography, capturing a good HDR is one thing but the processing after the fact is another. Tonemapping is usually where people take an HDR with potential and turn it in to a giant mess. [...]
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Retrospective 10 ready to go for a walk. I’ve owned a Think Tank Bazooka for a few years now but I haven’t had the opportunity to really use many of their other products. Every time I’ve come in to contact with anything they make I’ve always noticed it’s well built and often has some clever features. Normally I associate Think Tank with their backpacks designed for air travel and I know a number of people who use and swear by them. [...]
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▶ I was recently contacted by the creator of the short film “No Such Thing As Color.” In it she features a colorblind musician named Evans Forde as he tries to identify the color of things and explains how colorblindness affects him and how he understands the concept of color and its perception. In some scenes Laura processes the colors to simulate colorblindness for ‘color normal’ viewers of her video. It’s a great 9 minute look at how colorblindness can affect someone and really touches on how it can feel to be colorblind. [...]
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On Friday the 13th (oooooohh) I finally got to shoot with Liza, someone I’ve been looking forward to working with for quite a while. She brings a great energy and enthusiasm to the shoot along with an excellent sense of humor. No matter what you’re up to with her it’s bound to be a good time! [...]
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Think Tank Retrospective 10 Over a week ago I got an email from Think Tank inviting me to join their affiliate program. After accepting I asked if I could review one of their products and wound up choosing the Retrospective 10. It just arrived and I’m really looking forward to putting it through the paces. [...]
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Wayyyy back at the end of March Joe, Mike and I went out to shoot some film on our medium format cameras. The format and camera type of choice was the 6×6 TLR. I’ve always loved the square format, I’d even consider it my favorite, so shooting with the TLRs may become a more common occurrence. Having a selection of expired film to choose from I picked some Provia 100F whose expiration date was marked for sometime in 2002. Overall things came out pretty well although the quality of the scans provided by the local lab left a lot to be desired. At least they weren’t covered in dust or fingerprints! [...]
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The Invisible Camera proposes a tantalizing new method for photographing the world around us. I’m sure none of us can wait for this to be available in stores! [...]
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On Sunday I met with a new (to me) model named Melissa to go over a shoot concept she had contacted me about. One of my long term projects that I’ve been wanting to work on interested her so now that she’s on board the challenge is getting all the many other details sorted out! We decided to meet at the studio on Elton St. [...]
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