the last word

Yesterday I made some more images of the restored fire engines, this time with the Costal Optical 60mm f/4 on the a7R, so I could get a little closer. I continued to use the neutral density filter to keep the exposure times long enough to mitigate the a7R shutter shock. Focus stacked with Helicon Focus… [Read More]

I’ve been working with a couple of new — to me — fire engines. These are quite different from the old warrior that I started out with, in that they are lovingly restored. The first pictures were in large part about the scars the equipment had gathered over the years. I was initially disappointed that… [Read More]

I’ve posted images here, and here, of my on-again, off-again slit-scan series, Timescapes. I’m back at it, this time trying to make longer exposures. Here’s a four-hour one: Mike Collette, who runs Betterlight, the company that makes the scanning back I’m using for this series, told me about a mode in which the back will… [Read More]

I was on a panel on raw processing about a year ago, and so was Eric Chan. At the break, I congratulated him on the big improvements in resizing in Lightroom 4. He said that the algorithms were similar; the big change was that, rather than doing the calcs in the standard Lr working space,… [Read More]