June, 2009 | The Colorblind Photographer

An impromptu portrait & teaching session with Nate (gallery)

Nate told me that he was looking to take some new portraits of himself but he felt he’d have trouble taking them on his own since it’s hard to be in front of and behind the camera at the same time. He wanted to reproduce a lighting effect similar to something I have used before myself a number of years ago so it was also a good opportunity for me to teach him some simpler lighting methods and show him my approach to doing this sort of thing. [...]

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Exploring the abandoned Jewel Meats facility (gallery)

Nate and Andrew took me to explore the abandoned Jewel Meats facility in Rochester today. We don’t really know when the place shut down for good but the place obviously had a pretty severe fire as large parts of the building show significant signs of smoke damage although fire damage is somewhat hard to identify in most of the building. [...]

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Capture One 4.8.1 is crashy

… don’t use it! For whatever reason it keeps saying it is running out of memory and when it doesn’t do that it just gives up and crashes. I went back to 4.8 and all is well, I’m not sure what the .1 got me anyway! [...]

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Olympus officially announces the Pen E-P1

Olympus has finally made its official announcement after a Nikon-like campaign of leaks and glamorshots. The E-P1 is the first in the rekindled Pen brand and the excitement for it is probably well deserved. In the end it looks like many predictions of the specs are right although nobody could agree on how the E-P1 naming was going to be arranged. [...]

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This could be the new Olympus EP-1 “pen” rangefiner-styled compact digital!

When I posted about the Olympus last week I didn’t expect to see anything like this just yet, the rumors have said tomorrow would be the big day. The Pen moniker is starting to stick now with more people referring to it by that historic Olympus name. [...]

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Inheriting a bag of mystery camera gear

Some of my friends have inherited some interesting camera gear and apparently I’m about to receive my very own bag of mystery equipment. All I know is it is supposedly a small backpack filled with high end pre-digital photo gear. I’m curious what all that means since my interpretation of things could be a lot different from how a non-photographer would view things. An inventory and photos of the collection will come as soon as I have received it and had a chance to check it out. [...]

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The Olympus EP-1 and Samsung NX may be the compact cameras we've been waiting for

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Huetility Colorblind Simulator lets you simulate colorblindness on your iPhone

Earlier this week I was contacted by Luke Jefferson, one of the creators of the new Huetility Colorblind Simulator. He let me know about this application he and his colleague have developed that will be available on Saturday, June 6th for the iPhone. This application, their first, is built to simulate the vision of a colorblind person to help users such as photographers, designers and anyone else who works with color understand how the colorblind may view things. [...]

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Flickr Explore needs a new compass

Flickr is an interesting site; I like it a lot in spite of the various quirks it has or performance problems I have had with it. There are many great community aspects of the site and obviously the amount of photography on display is tremendous and there are many very talented photographers on Flickr who share their work and often their insight and knowledge. [...]

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