Showing posts with label black and white photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black and white photography. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

How to Make Good Pictures

shooter_225.jpgIt was show-and-tell at gulker.com World HQ this morning after Scott, Lily and I completed our mile-and-a-half walk. I showed Scott my $36 framed 11x14 print (vs. the $200 I paid a frame shop for a similar production) and the first draft of my N Judah book.

Scott had brought two old photo books that his wife had come upon while dealing with her late mother's estate. One was a Kodak guide "How to make good pictures" (1951, 29th Edition) and "The Retina Way" (1957, 7th Edition) a guide to using Kodak's famous 'miniature' 35mm rangefinder. I'm still having fun thumbing through both volumes, each laden with sage advice. Cameras change, but the basics of good pictures are remarkably stable... apologies to Kodak if they regard this as a copyright violation...

In other news:

Cool new 3G modem: the Nova Media iCON 431 is a 3G modem with Mac, Linux and Windows drivers. Whoaa... global connectivity for my Netbook?

Howard has an interesting commentary about the vanishing newsroom quandary. Via Dave "Toppler of Paradigms" Winer...

My culinary challenge this week: healthy dishes made only with ingredients from Trader Joe's. Byriani vegetables and rice with salmon is the chef's preparation for this evening.They're inexpensive, too...

Working photos: is a new public gallery where I'm posting things that catch my eye, preparatory to doing some more serious consideration. The front end of the 'good picture' process...

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

More Pescadero B&W

We're still experimenting, learning the ropes of Blogger... here we add an image from my main blog.

The pic below is from Picasa - I'm surprised I can't more easily snag a photo from Picasaweb to incorporate into this blog. Or are we missing something...?

Pescadero B&W

Scott and I took a drive over to Pescadero this past weekend. Scott was trying out his new Canon, and I brought along my Leica - here's one of the pix. You can see more, here.

We'll be checking out Picassa for Mac in a bit - it's still in Google Labs. I use Picasa for Linux on my Asus netbook - been a great tool for putting vacation pix on Picassaweb.

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Blogger out of beta, and this blog out of hibernation?

Everybody from William Gibson to moi is now revisiting their Blogger blog... and this one might heat up again, in a new context, as part of our Google apps package... stay tuned as we investigate a new web site and blog dedicated to photography, mainly black & white, much from the 70s and 80s....