Another Cellphone Shot! I Absolutely Love How Powerful The Phone Cams Have Become. They May Not Be Technically

My wife's flowers in the front of our house. Playing a bit with lens compression on a zoom (about 80 mm on the roses, 220 on the lilies).

REALLY NEAT VISUAL IDENTITY. see if you can pick up all that it communicates about the brand? visualgraphc:

Hefty’s Burger by Jake MacDougall

In the early 1920's, Racine, Wisconsin had an NFL Franchise (in fact, it had a couple of franchises until the new league gained traction in several other markets). One of the most well-known was the Racine Legion. The logo above is a "reimagining" of what that logo would have looked like if the franchise were in play today.

OLD SLIK broke up. Got this today via UPS. Looking froward to using it… thing is built like a tank! Not the  BENRO, MANFROTTO, or GITZO I'd like, but very solid so far.

Shot a few tests with camera. Not happy with the focus overall, but thought this had a neat look. Deleted most of the shots on import.

Exclusive Details on the Light L16 Camera Stu Maschwitz, prolost.com

The Light L16 prototype spills its guts.This is a follow-up to last week's post on the Light L16 camera, a computational camera that claims unprecedented big-camera performance in a small-camera form. Light launched a pre-order campaign last week,…

sweet...literally

"SUPERMOON" last night (7/11/14).

Took some with a clear sky easily the last full moon. THIS TIME... played with ISO (some are up to 3200) and a variety of shutter speeds. Figured aperture needed to be f22-322 (maybe flawed logic?). Anyone have tips on this for getting the detail in the clouds and the details in the moon? Seems you expose for one or the other? (note: these are lower res JPG also).  I didn't want to composite in PS, nor did I want to shoot HDR. Didn't think ND filter would do anything either.

CHEAP MACRO REVISITED

Earlier I posted some experimental shots I did with the PHOTODIOX aluminum MACRO TUBES. They were a cheap, serviceable way to shoot macro, and while it will not be able to come anywhere near the quality of a macro lens, it  offered cheap result– with a  few limitations. You have NO DOF unless you do the "aperture lock" trick (see the web for aperture using macro tubes). Even then, you will get a bit of the image that is vignetted, and you need to have good light and a motionless tripod.

I decided to try out he AGFA macro lens filters on an 18-55 kit lens. For about 15 bucks, you do have slightly more DOF, but (dependent on the filter quality and light conditions) may have blurred vignette edges. It seems to be greater on the +10 filter. I shot mostly yard flowers on this test (more to come perhaps), but fairly happy for the price.