Archives for the 'digital Holga' Category
Back to School with Carrie
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
For a time beautiful, talented model Carrie Turner had studio space in an old school building. We did a couple shoots there. These photos are from the first time we worked together there. I was working with my new Nikon Z7ii camera. I didn’t yet have a z-mount lens to use with it, so I […]
New Camera
Friday, May 6th, 2022
I’m not much of an equipment nut. I just want the right tool for the job at hand. And I’ve been, and still am, very happy with my micro 4/3 kit. But I’m getting ready for major documentary project that I hope to start this summer. And I felt that I wanted higher resolution files […]
A Softer Liv
Friday, January 29th, 2016
On that last shoot with the amazingly wonderful Liv Sage I pulled out my old single-element soft focus lens and played around with it for a while. It makes nice soft photos in a way that really can’t be duplicated in software. Of course, DxO had no idea what to do with these files, so I […]
Fuzzy Portraits
Saturday, November 22nd, 2014
Along with shooting Lizzie AnneMarie with my instant cameras I also put my old Sima 100mm soft-focus single-element lens on the Nikon D7000 and did a few fuzzy photos with it. I’ve had this lens for something like 40 years. It was a forerunner of all the current fuzzy lenses out there and I like the […]
Soft Kelsey
Friday, May 16th, 2014
I often take models to my favorite, most beautiful locations for our shoots. But for these photos Kelsey took me to one of her favorite places, a preserve in southeast Ohio. This was more than a year ago, in the spring of 2013. Kelsey knows many great places because she spends a lot of her time […]
Softness
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
As I’ve said before here, I’m tired of winter and bored with working in the studio. One of the things I do when I get bored in the studio is bring out my old soft-focus lens and shoot with it. I’ve had this lens, a single-element lens in Nikon mount, for more than 30 years. […]
Snow Day
Friday, October 29th, 2010
I’m still in West Virginia, but I head back home tomorrow. We’ve had pretty good luck with weather down here, although yesterday was too sunny for good photos and yet windy and cold too. But this morning we woke up and saw it had snowed overnight, as it’s quite capable of doing in these mountains […]
Busy, busy, busy
Friday, January 30th, 2009
I’m behind getting things ready for the Dirty Show in Detroit in a week. I’ll be driving my stuff and stuff for Gary and Athena up to Detroit on Saturday. Usually I try to have all the stuff done well in advance, but the snow storm this week threw my schedule off. Then I ran […]
Off To A Good Start
Sunday, January 25th, 2009
This is from my first shoot of 2009. I just did it this past week. I drove over to Indianapolis to shoot with Tantila, who I met because she has also modeled for Antoine de Villiars. This was what I sometimes call a “get acquainted” shoot. But it went very well. Usually I don’t really […]
Happy Holidays
Sunday, December 28th, 2008
That’s what I’m having these days, happy holidays. It’s been a very nice, but very busy Christmas season this year. When I haven’t been hosting my immediate family at my house I’ve been traveling to other relatives’ homes to enjoy celebrations with them. This is the first year in several that all my children have […]
