The light table at the FFKR Architects office gets little use - but when so, I'm drawn to it as it makes a perfect soft box with an interesting subject.
Sony Nex-7, with kit 18-55mm - Color Corrected in LR-4
KOLOB and ZION
Last weekend - a quick day/overnighter in the desert.
All of these were with Nex-7 - post in LightRoom 4
Moroni in the Rule of Thirds
Brigham City Utah LDS Temple - on the backside, after the rain.
Street Graphics
I'm a sucker for street graphics. Downtown SLC while wondering to the Trax I put the Nex-7 thru some street paces. Small - unobtrusive and convenient - and I'm really liking this form factor. I think it's going to be a perfect road-warrior setup.
Slingshot
Here's the vintage 1998 Slingshot with --- wait for it -- a SoftRide stem. I take a lot of grief for that stem, but I love it as it adds some "flava" to the ride.
Nex-7 with the 18-55 kit.
iFrogs Boost
Here's my review of the Boost -- I don't quite know how the technology works - but who cares as it just does.
City Creek
A casual Saturday - at the City Creek Center in down town Salt Lake City. Minimal adjustments to this set - no cropping with slight exposure corrections.
Another one !!
I couldn't resist -- Nex-7 with Canon 24mm f2.8 SSC.
Shooting
Shoot what you have available to shoot - and sometimes that is a pet, a plant or an action figure. And so today Violet was the stand in. Try different settings - get everything in focus and work around the short attention span and the skills will follow.
CityCreek in the BW
Friday in the PM - walking City Creek at the Ann Taylor - Converted with Silver Efex Pro.
SPOILED BY AF
Close focusing is a trick with the Canon - and I find myself spoiled by AF. I have to remember when I cut my teeth on the FM-2 with the 50mm AIS - some 30 years ago.
How far this Art has come. I'm spoiled.
Native rez - flowers with the Canon 24mm.
ELEVEN AM SUN
For me it is all about the sharpness - and I keep coming back to that.
The lens which performs this task is the lens which keeps getting the attention.
Nex-7 with the mounted Canon 24mm f2.8 SSC - I hate that it is manual focus. In the wrong non contrasty light the thing is a pig - but get this in the zone at f4.0 and whoa… stellar. 24mm on a crop is 35mm field of view - so i get used to it. I have to compose, second guess my focus, and then verify and re-verify and if I'm lucky what I wanted to shoot is still there. If not -- then I'm feeling a bit empty and I move on.
Hi-Rez -- 24mp with a 40 year old lens - no crop - sharpening mask applied in LR 4
FASHION REMIX 2012 - SALT LAKE CITY
Fashion Remix gets a bit more competitive every year and a bit more over the top. This year I only brought the Nex-7 - lighting on stage was updated so exposure was less challenging. Shot in IA - Intelligent Auto - and sometimes I hate to say that I use Auto - but man -- it's a damn good setting when I don't have the ability to adjust focus and shoot. I can just shoot and it's there. And regardless of the reviews - the 18-55mm is a very, very capable and sharp lens.
CARROTS OF TWO
With the Nikon 50mm f1.4 ais lens and the Nex-7, in the front yard, wide open to get the headlights in the background.
March 28th
I'm not one to live in the past - but there have been days where significant events shape lives - and today is one of those days of which I keep close and remember what's happening right now, right this instant, would be a stretch to be as bad as this day in March, 2006.
I've posted some of the narrative before.
My time spent in Iraq with the US Army was a mixed bag of following orders and trying to figure out what we were really doing there. In the mean time, I survived - yet I always remember how lucky I am of those who didn't and those who did with their lives being changed forever.
And that - gives me perspective of present day life.
Scorch marks on the asphalt - where two buried 120mm Chinese rockets detonated and impacted the passenger, drivers side of the Humvee. The Marine is apart of the QRF.
Schrapnel impacted the Sapi plate.
HAGERMAN SHOOTER'S
Near the town of Hagerman, on the outs skirts there is a patch of land where the canyon is a backstop. Only in the West - and here the locals pull out their "Long Rifles" on a Saturday evening. The evening wear is modest - but the machined parts spare no expense as the European optics have difficult to pronounce names like Leupold and Swarovski, and the weapons have glass bedded polished stocks mated to the actions of Remington.
A matched pair of Black and Decker Workmate's are the shooter's benches, atop with weathered Outers rests - and the only hand polished part of the whole setup is the aluminum diamond cut elevation adjustment knob below the Outers logo.
Unspent cartridges sit in 4 x 5 green boxes of individual compartments bullet side up - spent sit empty side down. These are hand loads - you can't buy these in the store.
After the shot, the left hand cups the ejection port to catch the spent round - it is placed back in the green box - a future re-load.
And the process repeats.
BDay Party - Nex-7
One my favorites of the weekend - in doors, no flash with the kit lens - and bingo - it's a keeper. Light from the sliding door and the three looking like they found the Ark - but it's Cake... gotta love it. Cake.
City Creek - Grand Opening
City Creek Center - a 2 Billion dollar project with Property Reserve Incorporated, a division of the LDS Church, opened today.
I spent 3+ years on this project with FFKR Architects - as they were the Architect of record for the two underground parking garages. These garages encompass 50 acres of parking with 4500 + stalls for retail and residential use.
NEX-7 Market Street Broiler
At the Broiler - from the stability of the table, in the distance, those seated.
NEX-7 - GREAT LIGHT
There is never a substitution for some great light -- almost near sunset off the porch and the 24mm f2.8 Canon SSC lens wide open. St. Patrick's has passed - but not the decorations.
