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By Martin Bailey, on September 28th, 2009
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Lem Fugitt and I first met virtually a while back, when Lem asked some advice when he was getting ready to buy a new camera. Then Lem commissioned me to shoot his portrait for his professional profile image, which I was happy to do. I haven’t done a lot of portrait shoots yet, though there have been a few that I am not able to discuss. The last time I talked about the gear I’m going to mention today was in episodes 151 and 155, which were about a Pet shoot, and a Maki-e Craftsman shoot that I did in July and August last year. Although I’m not big on street photography, at least not here in Japan, I do enjoy portraiture, when, like with Lem, it’s something that’s commissioned and pre-arranged. I enjoy the challenge of trying [...]
By Martin Bailey, on September 22nd, 2009
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Because I announced the winners via the Photography Forum last week, we actually are able to include a little behind the scenes type information on the images, as Landon and Marcus, two of the winners, shared their back-stories in the follow up thread on the forum. I’ll put a link to that thread in the show-notes, in case you’re interested in reading for yourself.
So, let’s take a look at the winning images, as usual, in reverse order, starting with Marcus Bain’s wonderful image m13892 (below), which is titled “Oil vs Water”. I’ll go into what I think of the shot shortly, but first, here’s that back-story, which I’m going to paraphrase from Marcus’ follow up forum post.
Oil vs Water (Copyright © Marcus Bain)
We heard that Marcus used a Lensbaby 3G with F5.6 aperture ring and the [...]
By Martin Bailey, on September 22nd, 2009
The Japanese calendar is marked with six days that rotate through from January 1st to the end of the year, and these days are pretty important to the Japanese when planning weddings, funerals and when to start doing new things etc. Sensho days for example are good luck in the morning, but not afternoon. Senbu days are bad luck in the morning, but OK in the afternoon. The day I’m writing this blog post is Taian which is the most lucky day, but yesterday was a Butsumetsu day, which is the most unlucky. (Take a look at the Rokuyo explanation near the bottom of this Wikipedia page on the Japanese Calender for more information.)
Although I note the types of days, like most Japanese people, I don’t really change what I do based on the type of day, unless I was going to be arranging a wedding or funeral [...]
By Martin Bailey, on September 14th, 2009
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Canon EOS 7D & EF 100mm F2.8L Macro Lens Special Preview Event
On Saturday the 12th of September, 2009, I visited the Canon S Tower in Shinagawa, Tokyo, to attend the Canon EOS 7D and 100mm F2.8 L IS USM Lens Special Preview event. I’m a member of the Canon Photo Circle, which is basically a club here in Japan that you pay $80 a year for and they send you a magazine each month, and an annual, each year. You also get cheap services fees etc. and sometimes, you have a chance to see things like the 7D and the 100mm Macro lens before the general public. Today, this helped me to see these two bits of gear approximately 3 hours before the general public. The Canon Photo Circle members were allowed in at 10AM, and the [...]
By Martin Bailey, on September 11th, 2009
This is the transcript for an archived Podcast, episode #177, originally released on March 03, 2009.
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The first thing that I want to say today is that I love my iPhone! I owned a Windows Mobile based PC for 2 years before I got my iPhone, and found it to be a constant pain in the behind. There were things that didn’t work well, perhaps more because of the applications that I’d loaded to it, more than the underlying OS, but even things like just having a reliable network connection was often a challenge. You could set up a Wireless LAN connection, or a Bluetooth partnership, and it would work well for a connection or two, then it would stop working, and there’d be no way of telling why. It would start working again later too, with an equal [...]
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