Photoblog: Walk a Mile in my Shoes
You may not have noticed but I’m photoblogging again on a section of this website which is a WordPress installation of it’s own. The sub-site is called Walk a Mile in my Shoes and I’ll try to put up a reasonable content / quality mix of work. You may like to subscribe to the RSS feed for automatic updates.
The camera I’m currently working with is a Nikon D90 with a NIKKOR 18-105 VR (Vibration Reduction) lens, although I had an 18-135 without the VR for a few weeks but handed that one back. My 18-105 lens is quite versatile and meets 90 percent of my needs out of the box. I’m scouring the after-Christmas pennies for what may be a decent quality macro lens early to the middle months of the new year. Scrimp and save.
One thing I haven’t done with Walk a Mile in my Shoes is to enable the commenting functionality. Would there be a point? Probably not. But it’s just too time consuming dealing with moderation. I guess if anyone has anything to add they can email me directly or use the contact form on this site.
While I retain the copyright on the images feel free to contact me if you’d like to purchase (or simply use) any of the work on the site. I can also arrange for prints. So enjoy the ride.
[Note: The image of the D90 is lifted straight from the Nikon website and they retain copyright of that image. This is not mine to give and my borrowing it is in that grey area of free advertising and promotion, so I guess they won't mind.]
November 14th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
hey Steven I absolutely love my D90. I wrote a blog on my d90 and recently posted some photos I shot at the Air & Space Museum. Check it out when you get a chance.
I enjoyed your photos. I’m a fan of macro shot. I’m getting the Sigma 50mm macro lens for Christmas. I can’t wait.
November 14th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Hey Jin, I’m green with envy already. We’ve gotten some reasonable results off a Canon Powershot A640 (couple of years old now) for simple macros but when you compare those against a real camera like the D90 or better they tend to lack depth and vibrant colour. A high quality macro lens is a must.
Wow that’s an impressive photoset, very nice work. I’m still learning how to use the D90 properly, but it’s an awesome tool. Hopefully the blog will give me the practice with it to bring shots like that together, too.
November 15th, 2008 at 4:25 am
Steven, I’m pretty new to SLR photography too. I’ve joined some really good groups on Flickr. Their discussion sections are very helpful and people are friendly. Here are a few:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/d80/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/nikondigitallearningcenter/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/nikon_d90_users/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/closer_and_closer/
November 15th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Thanks, I’ll check them out. My partner Linden Langdon, blogs at Translucent is an invaluable resource for me. She’s a fine arts printmaker (lithograph, etching etc) and has been a talented amateur photographer for the last 25+ years. So she’s taught me a little here and there over the last decade.
Her blog photos of the green moss at the Eagle Hawk Neck tesselated pavement were taken on a very low end camera phone at the height of an early summer day…
BTW was it the aeronautical museum’s natural lighting that made the blue illustration look on those photos, or photoshop? Just curious. They had quite a unique finish to them that I like…
November 15th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Linden has some nice work!
As for my photos, it was a “pseudo cross-processing” effect I did in Photoshop. I normally don’t post process my photos, so I can be a better photographer on my own. However looking at the exhibits in the museums, especially most of them were vintage air crafts, gave me a nostalgic feeling. So I wanted to bring out the mood I felt at the time with the XPro effect.
November 15th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Ahh cool. We were wondering if it was a coloured filter. I like the effect in that case too. They have a certain, can’t put my finger on it, look that I’ve seen in a boy’s magazine or something many years ago.