SMR Labs Photoblog
Warm day today again. But the temp is going to drop fast this week (it is January) so I figured I should hit a park while I can.
The Olympus XZ-1 is a great camera. The biggest thing I need to remember when I use it is that diffraction starts in early so I really should use the built in ND filter when I’m only stopping down to keep from over exposing. Even so the images are sharp and the DR seems plenty fine for my needs.
Of course this time of year it looks red…
What the hell do you think it is? Looked to me like gifts in front of a fireplace at the store. Now I’m not so sure. I think that is a cat in the corner. Not sure what the other thing is…
It is supposed to replace my John Shaw winterscape in my living room. Get something brighter in there for the winter. Not so sure now if I want this there. I liked it better in the store than I do in my house.
I think I’m going to replace my winterscape with this one …
That one printed quite nicely. That frame (10×13 visible) was all of about $20 at Michaels. It is a PITA to size things for premade frames but it is really expensive to do custom ones.
I’m guessing it was from my sister.
Bought a Fed 3 “Olympic” Russian 35mm Rangefinder off of E-Bay. $27 for a, in theory, working camera. I think it is largely decoration. I know where I want to put it.
Anti-reflective coatings? We don’t need those…
Never used Ernie Ball strings before. They were cheap and had Amazon Prime shipping so I bought them.
Desk lamp for most of the lighting. Flash bounced off the wall to bring up the shadows. I don’t care for the big reflection of the desk lamp on the top right but I do like the funky reflection on the left.
I used a Christmas card from The Principal Financial Group to reflect light back onto the subject.
Was mostly just playing around with this image. But there was something fun in it after a massive crop, oodles of noise reduction and a somewhat nasty b+w conversion.
From a set of images I took at Sakatah Lake a couple months ago.
Too many cat photos lately. This was an accident.
