Archives for: December 2008
I don't know why this young chap (Dale) features so often in the pictures of the night, he just seemed to be comfortable in front of a camera. While I did not ask him to do anything he definitely delivered.
Take every opportunity you can to take pictures, it is only then that opportunities present themselves for you and your camera.
Driving to work this morning I was thinking how writing code for embedded devices or designing a circuit board has become a task I can become so totally immersed in that the people around me no longer exist, time becomes something I don't feel pass, the music I might be playing at the time is no longer heard. In effect I forget about self, about me. This is something I can fall into quite quickly once I start tapping at the keyboard.
That maybe because I have been doing this for so many years that I can become totally creative with my skills. This relates with what I do in photography, the skill set is in place and after only a short time I can get into a groove that lets me get immersed in the visual information around me and not in me.
When writing code for new devices/peripherals there are some hurdles getting the nitty-gritty out of the way but once moving it is all immersing once again. Not much different to picking up a new camera, new lens, new software, new lighting setup.
The interesting thing is that I do not remember taking the picture in the previous post and very little of this picture. And yet I know that the camera never left me, if it was not in my hand it hung from a strap over my shoulder while I changed cards.
It is interesting to find that many of my best captured pictures are so spur of the moment I remember either nothing or very little of it. Maybe that is hte measuring stick I should use.
Brooks Jensen has possibly mentioned those forgotten moments in a podcast, Colin Jago and Paul Butzi may also have mentioned this. Honestly, there is so much information out there (and pictures) that most of it becomes a blur.
One from Friday nights school formal shoot, expect more.
The big complaint on the Leica M8 is that it does not filter infrared. While this is not from a Leica M8, only a Panasonic DMC-TZ3, it took some drastic adjustments to make my pants not look purple. Maybe this is not an IR issue but it is the only wrong colour in the picture.