Category Archives: Photography
What Will Happen To Your Digital Photographs When You Die?
My wife’s grandmother died a couple of years ago and at the time we spent a few days going through boxes and boxes of old photos including photos from Yosemite vacations in the 1930′s (shown here) and the shipyards of Oakland where she worked during world war II. As we shifted through decades upon decades [...]
Voigtlander Bessa R4A and Canon 40D Shutter Sounds
One of the nice things about a Leica rangefinder is that the shutter is quiet. This can help when taking photographs on the street since it can minimize the disruption to the scene. I do not have a Leica camera but I do have a Voigtländer Bessa R4A rangefinder. However, the Bessa does not share the same [...]
Photographing The Golden Gate Bridge
This morning I headed up to San Francisco to take some photographs of the Golden Gate bridge. As you can see from these iPhone snapshots, I was using my Mamiya 645 1000s which I had loaded with Kodak Ektar 100. The first place I visited was the Marin Headlands for the classic tourist shot with [...]
Photo Shoot Practice – Olympus 35 RC
Today I decided to take some shots of my Olympus 35 RC, a compact fixed lens rangefinder from the 1970s. To take these shots, I was using a very basic “Strobist” set up with a Canon Speedlite 430 EX flash mounted on a stand firing through an umbrella camera left. I also used some white [...]