Archive for January, 2008
Portfolio Re-launch
I’m relaunching ev-15.com with new software and a new focus. I guess technically it is a photo blog of sorts but it is not really intended to be that.
At this point the site design is unfinished and and the RSS feed is half done and it needs some more work on the back end, but I like where it is headed, so enjoy.
steve :: Jan.30.2008 :: Photography :: 1 Comment »
Upcoming Plans
Here is a short list of things I have planned this year, not including work stuff.
- Ski Trip with the Chumanovs: February 2x. They will be here a week, I haven’t picked days to join them yet.
- Ski Trip with Andy, Ben, hopefully others: March 6-9, give or take.
- Trip to New York City to see Andy: April 24-27.
- Parents visiting Colorado: June 7-13.
- Andy’s wedding in Iowa: September 27.
I will probably have to travel to Boston in March for work, so that may be a good opportunity for a trip to see Alex & Victoria as well, but plans have not been made.
With all this and the weight loss plan going ahead nicely, 2008 is shaping up to be a really good year.
steve :: Jan.22.2008 :: Uncategorized :: 3 Comments »
Heroic
steve :: Jan.13.2008 :: Uncategorized :: 5 Comments »
Back from Mass.
I spent another few days in Massachusetts this week, working on wind projects. I had three distinct projects to visit, one I have been working on for a while and two to kick off. I started in Boston, visiting Nut Island to take some photographs and Deer Island to discuss progress. Then it was off west to Worcester (Wooster) to kick off a wind study on a grey Wednesday morning. After Worcester it was off to the cape to kick off a similar study in Wellfleet. The cape is quiet in January, and up in Wellfleet many people only live in the houses they own a couple months out of the year. Must be a tough life.
steve :: Jan.12.2008 :: Photography :: 1 Comment »
More Photos
Photos from a walk to the reservoir.
steve :: Jan.06.2008 :: Photography :: 1 Comment »
Olympus E-410 First Roll
The Olympus E-410 digital SLR I ordered last week arrived yesterday, so I took it downtown today for a test run. The camera handles nicely. It’s lightweight and comfortable to hold even though it doesn’t have the now-standard hand grip that came to being around the time Canon switched to EOS from the manual focus FD cameras. In terms of width and height the body is no bigger than my Canonet rangefinder, but like seemingly all modern SLRs it is deep, especially with a lens attached.
The stock 14-42mm (28-85mm 35mm equivalent) lens is fairly good, and the camera and lens together handle quite naturally. The viewfinder is small compared to a 35mm SLR, but I got used to it fairly quickly, and it is bright and works well for framing. Manual focus on the kit lenses is a by-wire system with no distance indication (and it only works when the camera is on) but it isn’t difficult to use relative to any other autofocus SLR (split ring focusing screens have gone the way of the dodo, sadly). Autofocus is relatively quick and quiet and the overall setup is snappy.
I took to it pretty quickly, and treated it like I would treat a film SLR. There was plenty of sunlight, so I set the camera ISO to 100 and raw capture, and turned off the screen. I also turned off the record review function and shot as if I had film. When I got home I loaded everything up and started working with the results.
It’s different than working with negatives and a scanner, but the basic idea is the same. The in-camera settings produce good looking files, but a little post-processing seems to help quite a bit. One thing I am still working on is getting the colors that come out of the camera to feel more like what I would get from the films I typically use. The blues of the sky are very blue, and a little more intense than I am used to seeing from film. To be fair, the sky was very blue in real life.
steve :: Jan.05.2008 :: Photography :: 1 Comment »
Yay Iowa
Obama! Yay Iowa. I <3 you.
steve :: Jan.04.2008 :: Uncategorized :: 1 Comment »