January 2012

HDR Bakersfield photos

January 24, 2012

While on Safari in Bakersfield last weekend, I stuck my head in the optical viewfinder of my new long telephoto lens for some fun Bird photographs. One thing that lent itself to the quality of those bird images was the quality of light. I took the chance with my new, smaller Olympus camera with its [...]

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On safari in Bakersfield

January 22, 2012

Saturday I spent some time with my new lens. Bakersfield has many watershed areas. Some are for flood control, others are reservoirs for farmers who store water to irrigate in dry times. This is a dry time. We haven’t had any significant rain for nearly a year. This gave me a good chance to take some photographs [...]

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Oildale, Bakersfield Texture Study

January 10, 2012
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Linking the new Olympus PEN with my Olympus past

January 8, 2012

Over the holidays I grew tired of lugging around 10+ pounds of photo equipment on the chance that I might make the chance make some photos. I found myself making excuses why I wouldn’t, rather than making good opportunities to take pictures. I ended up taking more pictures with my less than awe-inspiring camera phone. [...]

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Test of: Exposing to the Right with Olympus PEN system

January 5, 2012

As I first read here, Exposing to the right is an interesting theory. I had to test it. I posted this at mu-43.com and decided to make it more publicly available. Coming from a film training background, and shooting in raw ever since my 20d seven years ago; I first learned of Exposing to the right via [...]

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