Archive for April, 2008

SDI - A New Beginning - Portraits - #020 w/ Dennis Hays

Sunday, April 27th, 2008
 
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After collecting most of what I think I need, in the way of gear, I set up the “studio” and began my quest to study portraiture. Here are my first results, warts and all. Yes, I made some mistakes and had one equipment failure, but, after all, this is just the beginning of my quest […]

SDI - Ready Or Not - #019 w/ Dennis Hays

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
 
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All is moving quite well; the final bits of equipment are in and next week, I’ll start doing portraits. Along with this, my old favorite, the Metz 54 MZ-3 flash came back from repair - $83.00 and well worth it! Also, the Elinchrom Skyport arrived and it’s smaller than I expected. That’s good as it […]

SDI - The Saga Continues - 018 with Dennis Hays

Saturday, April 5th, 2008
 
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After clearing some personal problems (dead car and visiting mother), I’m back building the equipment base and learning portraiture.
First up is some samples from the new Canon EOS XTi dSLR. The image immediately below, of the New York Capitol building (in Albany, New York USA) was taken with the Canon 28mm-90mm lens f/4-5.6 III […]