Phat Photos

As in Wide Angle. A perpetual struggle with most dSLRs, as is razor-thin depth of field.

I recently swapped some iStockPhoto winnings for a much wider lens but - that 1.6x crop factor - still a problem. Can't get around it - laws of physics and all that.

Which means its time to step up in class - either to a 5D (not a fan of the body, to be honest, but Oh! the image quality!) or a 1D (best camera body on the planet, but older sensor now) or the updated 1DmkII ( $$$ ). Yes, I could step all the way up to a digital medium format - but that would be $$$-squared.

Stay tuned - tentative plans for a trip to Korea in January and Shanghai in March - will do "something" before then.

Snow in the Canadian Southwest

I may as well succumb to the inevitable and post the obligatory snow photos.The next few were all taken on the same snowy evening - an evening our local press reported as being a "white out" - from which I am forced to conclude they have never seen a proper snow storm.



What I wouldn't have given for a 17mm perspective on a full-frame sensor that evening! Also noticing that how I deal with images has changed since I started working on a 30" monitor. For the first time, the display outresolves the images!

Holga Snow

It had literally been several months since I had snapped any photos at all. Work is insane - impossible to relate to anyone who has never lived the startup lifestyle - and no need to explain to anyone who has. It was so bad that despite ending up in Korea for a few days - and only a few days after the loose screw up north detonated a nuke - I didn't manage a single photo.

When I went out this evening I didn't know what I was after. I looked up and found...



...motion.

Too centered, too ordinary, too obvious

But I still like it.



For some reason, either my memories of film are fading or these conditions allowed for photos that really do look like B&W. With even the slush now disappearing from the streets, one last monochromatic memory.