Photography

Most of my photographs get posted on my flickr site. I also have a photoblog on the Posterous platform called Sketching With Light, which is exclusively for the pictures that I take with, and edit on, my camera phone.

I am generally more comfortable being the person behind the camera, then being the person in front of it. So photos that actually have me in them are somewhat of a rarity.

(For anyone who decides to check out Sketching with Light, be prepaired for lots of photos of my cats. I am firmly convinced that cameraphones were largely invented for cat owners.)

I have a lot of cameras. I love camera technology.

My primary cameras are a Canon XTi and a Canon EOS 300D (Digital Rebel) with a 28-200 mm Promaster lens as my "workhorse" day-to-day lens. (Other lenses for the Canon include a Canon 28-400 telephoto, a Promaster Macro, a Canon Wideangle, and a Lensbaby with macro and wide angle attachments.)

I drool over the higher-end EOS cameras, and would love to get an EOS-5D Mark II, but I cannot quite justify getting a $3k camera body. Yet.

I love the XTi, but I have to admit that it is not always the most convenient camera to haul around with me all of the time. Fortunately I have my Android for random snaps.

In addition to the digital cameras I also have a small collection of film cameras, some of which are antique. This collection includes a Calumet 4x5 field camera, Kodak Brownie, Kodak Traveler II, Lomo ActionSampler, and Holga 120N. Yes, I have shot using all of them, even the antique ones. I am always on the lookout for more cool antique cameras to play with.

When using digital, I shoot primarily in RAW mode and do all pf my post processing in Photoshop CS3. The nice people at the camera store around the corner handle all of my film development. Eventually I will get back to doing all of my own black-and-white film processing. After all, I have all of the equipment. No sense letting it all just sit in boxes in the basement.