50mm fun

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Mike

I snagged Pete‘s 50mm f1.8 @ the pancake dinner tonight and started playing with it. I tossed a couple up on flickr, not many keepers considering I was just playing and trying to spend more time meeting and talking with people than messing with my camera…. Which I probably failed at, but hey I did meet some cool new people, including Carin (hope I spelled that right). And Carin let me just say you probably get the most comments on you blog of any non pro blogger I’ve ever seen. With some poking around I found her photography site, I love meeting photogs, and I love it more when they put their work online

I think of the hand full I shot, I think I like this one the most:

Lansing Photowalk

Posted on February 28, 2009 by Mike

So, Jimbo and I headed up to Lansing for the Lansing Flickr Group photowalk, and um, well, we had a timeline and couldn’t wait for the group to start shooting so we busted out on our own…which defeats the purpose of a group photowalk, but we had a great time anyway.

You can check out my shots on my photostream, and here is a link to Jim’s photostream.

Fav of the day

Calling photo-natics

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Mike

@BetsyWebber posted on Twitter thatthe GRFlickr group is doing a Lansing photo walk on Saturday in Lansing. They are meeting @ Biggby on Allegan @ noon’ish.

I’m goin. They may expect that because I’m around here I will know where to go or what to shoot, but I don’t. I’m going to learn, I’m going to get out of my house and shake off the winter dull drums, and I’m going cuz I need to participate in some of these photo walks so that my photo walks will be more fruitfull in the future.

So, I’d love to see you guys there! Shoot me an email or a comment if you think you can make it.

A morning laugh

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Mike

Blast

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Mike

One of my goals for the last couple months has been to take more pictures, and in doing so start paying far more attention to the technical aspects therein. I was doing pretty good for a while, the flickr photos on the side of this page where rolling along nicely, showing progress in my quest to shoot more.

Well I just noticed that they are the same from the beginning of December. What sucks is we have had some beautiful snow storms to be out shooting, and I just have not had the motivation… Time to get back to it.

Google Reader (541)

Posted on December 12, 2008 by Mike

http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/

I love this pic. Can’t quite put my finger on why… But I really like it.

A little help

Posted on November 28, 2008 by Mike

Many of you are techs, some of you are photo nuts. Of late I have started having troubles with the photos I’m uploading to the net.

I shoot in raw, adobe rgb, post process in CS3, save as a JPG. On the computer that JPG seems to look fine. When I upload this to flickr or picasa the vibrance of the picture goes away. All of the colors are muted.

Anyone have thoughts? I’m getting frustrated on this one.

***update*** I took roughly the same picture with roughly the same edits in both sRGB and Adobe RGB, and BOTH had the colors screwed up when I uploaded thos pics to flickr.

One thread on flickr suggested unticking all the boxes when you save as jpg, this did not help either.

The below shots, I switched to sRGB, and shot in RAW + JPG mode so it was the exact same capture just saved in both formats on the camera. I did not edit either of them, just saved them both as JPG’s with a quality of 7 so they both had the same compression and degredation levels.

Shot as RAW saved as JPG

Shot as JPG

Here are a few more examples of an upload of the same photo. When I do most of my photo management in Bridge. But this time I imported the pic into iPhoto to see what would happen.

Through Picasa uploader in iPhoto

Uploaded manually via web to Picasa / Exactly the same if through Picasa Uploader app

Guuiiiiitar

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Mike

So I saw a pic of a guitar on flickr so I figured I would bust mine out and give it a shot. I think this one is my favorite, it is Diana’s for sure she just doesn’t like all the “crap” around it….that crap being my living room… There are a couple other shots of the neglected instrument in my flickr photo pool.