Archive for February 2010

What the hell is wrong with you tonight?

In digital, lightroom, photography on 27 February 2010 tagged 5d mark II, chinatown, lightroom, post-processing with no comments

I have a new favorite preset and it’s called Gimme all you got but not love. (Not only was I listening to Joe Jackson, but this preset pretty much sucks every drop of pixel out of your photo. Or my photo, as it were.) And because you’re reading my blog, I would like to offer [...]

Photowalk, again.

In digital, photography on 25 February 2010 tagged 5d mark II, caliber, chinatown, lightroom, polaroid with no comments

Like I said, while I hated these photos at first, a little PP goes a long way. Here are another set of twelve shots.

Pas si simple.
I like that I shot this all crooked. To be honest, I did try to fix it in Photoshop, but it looked silly. So tilted it will be.

And I feel [...]

“Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?”

In 52 'roid waste land, analog, photography on 11 February 2010 tagged 52 'roid waste land, f2b, film, polaroid, sx-70, week 4 with no comments

72; 25.01.10, 16:12
“There I saw one I knew, and stopped him, crying ‘Stetson!
‘You who were with me in the ships at Mylae!
‘That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
‘Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
‘Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?”
69-73, I. The Burial of the Dead
January was rainy and [...]

More from the Photowalk.

In digital, photography on 2 February 2010 tagged 5d mark II, caliber, chinatown, north beach, photowalk with 1 comment

Yeah, I shot a lot. I thought they mostly sucked, but post-processing can do wonderful things.
A continuation of this post.

Stuck in the middle with you.
Those guys, they were not part of the photowalk. Not on purpose at least.

Glasses. (UTW Fixing a Hole)

Pyramid 2.0 (UTW Siamese Dream)
It’s actually Pyramid 2.0 and Language of the Birds 2.0, [...]

Caliber Photowalk 30.01.10

In digital, photography on 1 February 2010 tagged caliber, chinatown, fidi, north beach, photowalk with 3 comments

These are some shots from the January 30th Caliber Photowalk in North Beach and Chinatown.
I took more pictures than I expected, fewer than I ought to’ve, and they’re all pretty much crappier than I’d like. But they’ll do. Here are the first of many. If I used presets to process, they’re in the parentheses. And, [...]