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And the sky became interested again

In Art, Photos on 30 October 2009 tagged beach, California, clouds, Laguna Beach, landscape, ocean, sky, sunset, water with no comments

Laguna Beach, CA

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He’s come a long way

In Photos on 28 October 2009 tagged B&W, Bill Ritter, blackandwhite, male, man, portrait with no comments

Bill Ritter, guitarist and mastermind of The Scarlet Paradigm, and his own side project, William Alden Music. My title for the photo describes Bill as a budding audio engineer.

Caption: Bill recorded some drum tracks from James in the garage. I took this while they were listening to it. (May 24, 2009)

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Sneak peek: Ginger and Joe

In Photos on 27 October 2009 tagged wedding with 6 comments

I wanted to share a few shots from Ginger and Joe’s wedding on October 18^th, 2009. Even though I wasn’t feeling 100%, I’m stoked with the images we were able to create.

Oh, and a Damon D’Amato sighting!¹

Actually, Damon offered to be a second shooter. It was very generous of him. Thanks! ↩

Flickr’s People in Photos

In Flickr on 22 October 2009 with 2 comments

I’m glad Flickr finally released People in Photos. It’s a feature that Facebook and Myspace had for a while.

Tip: If you write generous keywords on all of your photos, especially of people, you can label people in bulk.

Head to Flickr Organize.
Click more options and search for the person by tags only.
Select all.
Drag up to the batch area.
Click Add People near the top¹.

I figured this out after going through my 100^th page. Better late than never.

Fourth item from the left. ↩

My “new” film camera

In Gear, Photography on 14 October 2009 tagged Canon with 1 comment

I’m taking basic photography at Citrus College, which is mainly film-based. We need to develop film and make our own prints.

My Pentax ME Super¹ has ticked me off for the last time. I’ve shot through about five rolls. A lot of photos weren’t exposed properly. To make things worse, a couple of those rolls weren’t winding after a certain point.²

I promise I was following what its meter told me! And yes, I tried metering with my Canon EOS 40D and they essentially matched.

Since some photos were turning out just the way I imagined, I don’t think it’s a broken meter.

I digress.

I was jealous of my classmates’ correctly exposed photos. A couple of them had Canon cameras that supported EF lenses. Why not me?

So, I started searching for a Canon 35mm film camera. I got close to buying a Canon EOS Rebel G for $54 from a nearby eBay seller.

Fortunately, Gerald heard my plea on Twitter and gave me his unused Canon EOS Rebel XS (35mm film SLR)³. Thanks man!

Perhaps I’ll send him my best print of the semester as a gift. Of course, I need to pull that off first.