Nostalgia for the good old days….of early digital. – by Kirk Tuck
This is not so much a walk through remembrance gardens as it is a quick salute to one old war horse of a camera. My Kodak DCS 760′s last battery bit the dust. It holds enough charge to get off maybe ten or fifteen images before shutting down alto [...]
Monthly archives for January, 2011
Nostalgia for the good old days…...
Nostalgia for the good old days….of early digital. – by Kirk Tuck
This is not so much a walk through remembrance gardens as it is a quick salute to one old war horse of a camera. My Kodak DCS 760′s last battery bit the dust. It holds enough charge to get off maybe ten or fifteen images before shutting down alto [...]
A brief, one sided conversation about...
A brief, one sided conversation about lens testing and reality…. – by Kirk Tuck
Testing lenses by shooting targets and graphing the resolution line pairs is interesting, compelling and…..silly. Most high speed lenses don’t do “great corners”. And in either image above the ability to have grea [...]
A plug for a great lighting workshop ...
A plug for a great lighting workshop in Austin. Not mine. – by Kirk Tuck
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you know how I feel about most photographic workshops. A lot of them fall into a couple of categories: 1. The “old pro” who shows and tells you how we did it in the “good old [...]
Gear is fun but it’s what we do...
Gear is fun but it’s what we do with it that counts. – by Kirk Tuck
Kirk and the clients. I’m praying hard that the carefully feathered umbrellas deliver photons to the back of the room. Love the ladder.
I just wrote a review about the Olympus EPL2 and I’ll admit it was fun to get back all the comm [...]
Olympus EPL2. Final Installment. Ki...
Olympus EPL2. Final Installment. Kirk’s Definitive Opinion. – by Kirk Tuck
When I head out the door to shoot I usually have a Pen camera configured like this.
The VF-2 electronic finder is not an optional accessory to me. It should be part of every package.
It’s small, light and unobtrusive. Perfect fo [...]
Olympus EPL2: Is the video good? Do ...
Olympus EPL2: Is the video good? Do we care? Do you care? – by Kirk Tuck
If you want to see it bigger (full res but with compression artifacts around the edges….go here: http://gallery.me.com/kirktuck#100264
I can hear it now. A certain percentage of readers will grouse about “having to pay” for vi [...]
Thinking about art while swimming. Ho...
Thinking about art while swimming. How I like to do portraits. – by Kirk Tuck
I don’t get why photographers aren’t really excited about working with new stuff they can’t wear around their necks. I’ve been warming up to LED lighting panels since late Summer and I’m having a blast with them. L [...]
FRANTIC FRIDAYS!!!!!
FRANTIC FRIDAYS!!!!! – by Kirk Tuck
In the quiet days of 2009 and 2010 I’d forgotten what it was like to be busy all the time. Now assignments are rushing back as though a dam broke somewhere upstream. Too many executives decided they couldn’t put off being successful anymore. More people decided to defend [...]
Bikers meet Olympus EPL2
Bikers meet Olympus EPL2 – by Kirk Tuck
Barbara and friends down at Buffalo Bills in a promo shot for an upcoming production at Zach.
Leaving behind the “red dot” imbroglio for a now, I took the EPL2 (with the EP2 as a back up) when I went to shoot some production shots for an upcoming play about [...]
Walking around, looking for trouble.
Walking around, looking for trouble. – by Kirk Tuck
These are all handheld images taken this afternoon (after a long day of commercial shooting) with the Olympus EPL2 and the kit lens or the Panasonic 20mm f1.7 lens. This is what I do to relax after a day at work…..
I knew I would get in trouble when I posted this afternoon [...]
Can we talk very frankly? About the ...
Can we talk very frankly? About the serious, red dot issue???? – by Kirk Tuck
I walked in the door a few minutes ago and set down my stuff. I’ve been shooting photographs for an oral surgery practice again today. Yes, I shot a model released patient having a procedure done. Yes, there was a little blood. [...]
Common Sense and Buying Compact Camer...
Common Sense and Buying Compact Cameras. – by Kirk Tuck
Olympus ultra compact interchangeable lens EPL1 with zoom
This camera will not fit in the pockets of my tight Italian jeans. And it might not fit in yours either. But it’s not much larger than the Canon G12 or any number of extended range point and shoot [...]
I love this review of my blog by quot...
I love this review of my blog by quotidian photography….. – by Kirk Tuck
The Visual Science Lab I didn’t really understand this blog when I started reading it. It’s a bit all over the place. When I started reading the author, photographer Kirk Tuck, was obsessed with Olympus cameras and I really couldn’t rel [...]
Early Adapters and what that entails.
Early Adapters and what that entails. – by Kirk Tuck
Can you tell what camera I used for these shots without looking at the EXIF data? Can you tell when they were shot? Many people think of themselves as early adopters of digital technology because they started shooting with a Nikon D1x or a Canon 30D. Oth [...]
Olympus EPL2 Review, first installmen...
Olympus EPL2 Review, first installment. – by Kirk Tuck
This afternoon I shot my first stuff with the EPL2. Fadya came over to the studio to help me do photos for an upcoming book and I pulled out the camera with the 40-150mm zoom and the VF-2 mounted on top. I stuck the unit on top of my tripod and grabbed my meter to take [...]
Biking in the pouring rain? Naw, hea...
Biking in the pouring rain? Naw, head to the studio. – by Kirk Tuck
I have a wonderful relationship with an oral surgery practice in Austin. One of the campaigns I do for them is a monthly, “meet the doctor” print ad. I interview the doctor and find out what their interests are, outside of the practice, and th [...]
Seeing yourself shoot is eerie. And i...
Seeing yourself shoot is eerie. And if you think I’m mercurial about my camera choices look what I was shooting with that day!!! – by Kirk Tuck
We were busy shooting images of Heidi for the second book. The one on studio lighting. I’d forgotten that we were testing the 40 meg Leaf AF7i at the same time. Go [...]
And so it begins. My first impressio...
And so it begins. My first impressions about the EPL2 Camera. – by Kirk Tuck
It’s a fun day when cool little cameras come from beyond and I get to play with them in a consequence free environment. If you’ve followed my blog for any time at all you’ll know that I have a real soft spot for the Olympus Pen camera [...]
A meeting of the minds. Working pros...
A meeting of the minds. Working pros meet academia. – by Kirk Tuck
For the last few years I’ve been a member of the advisory board for the photography program at Austin Community College. Once a year all the members of the advisory board meet and exchange information with the chair and the faculty of the program. Thi [...]
2010 stock photo sales review
2010 stock photo sales review by Fstop57
The new year is, of course, a time for review and reflection. However, there’s not too much point making resolutions before considering what has and hasn’t worked in the past! I had a spectacularly unproductive 2010 in terms of adding images to my stock collections. With th [...]
images that selll and sell and sell
images that selll and sell and sell by Fstop57
If anyone has been waiting (extremely) patiently for the follow up to my post on building a passive income from stock photography then this PDN article on timeless images that have sold countless times over many years will be of interest. Having a few of these in your collection [...]
24mb or 48mb for Alamy?
24mb or 48mb for Alamy? by Fstop57
Since posting my tutorial on how to interpolate an image for Alamy submission the minimum image size requirements have been lowered. While Alamy still officially recommends upsizing images to 48mb in order to maximise “sales potential” the minimum that is now required is only 24m [...]
