I have been waiting for an important firmware upgrade for my Sony Alpha A100 before really going into a hearty review, and this week…I downloaded and installed it. Here we go. I am a fan of Sony cameras. I have been since my first major digital camera, the f717. On the Internet, I read that [...]
Photography
Nobody will like it.
Why do I keep hearing that I should be producing work that nobody will like. There has been this buzz, I don’t know whether it is just me noticing, or pehaps someone trying to tell me something…but the subject of art and public acceptance has been on a lot of lips lately. Why would someone [...]
Digital Vs. Film
I lurk. I have never been much of a joiner, but I troll. A large part of my time is currently being spent trying to diagnose a problem with my new camera. OK, not really a problem, a “feature” that I may go into later. There are so many photo forums for shooters, editors, snappers, [...]
Shooter
My photo-instinct. I want to capture what it is we see, as accuratly and as interestingly as possible. I feel the need to seek out things that are difficult to see, like color, and emphasize them. For instance, in night-photography which is my current fancy, unnatural color derived from so many different kinds of illumination [...]