Last week I took my recently repaired Pentax 67 to my grandson Charlie Pratt’s little league baseball game. I had purchased a Pentax 300mm F4 lens for my 67 right before I broke the meter chain, so I had not had a chance to use it for almost a year. I was eager to see […]
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I asked permission to take this photo, and the soldier was friendly enough and amenable. I later sent him a digital image of the photo for his use. Overall I like the photo and it was fun to shoot. Good enough for me. Once again this was taken with my Toyo View VX-125 large-format film […]
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I shot this photo at F8 so I could get a bit more depth-of-field than normal and be sure I got most of the horse in focus, while still getting a subject-isolating blurred background. When I am doing these shots, I don’t have much time to set up composition since the camera is tripod-mounted and […]
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I love taking portraits of people. It is my favorite type of photography. It requires me to get out of my comfort zone and ask people if I can take their photos. Not an easy thing, but if I want cool photos, I gotta ask. This guy was quiet and didn’t say anything when I […]
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Another picture I grabbed that is nothing special. It doesn’t have to be. I just take photographs of subjects that interest me, and the photo doesn’t have to be perfect. If I wanted on perfect, I wouldn’t have very many photos or much experience. Like most of my 4×5 photos, this was shot with my […]