My friend, Dave Beckerman, a very talented photographer, has been playing with High Dynamic Range photography. He tried my suggestion to process the images with PhotoMatix from HDRsoft.com, and has been very pleased. He is off and running with a new vision, and generously shares his “how-to’s.”
Of course, our conversations made me think back to [...]
Second Light
This is the last post of the three-part series of street photography in Chicago.
Chicago Part III: Walkways and Sidewalks
Camera: Hasselblad 501CM, 80mm/f2.8 Planar lens, Ilford Pan F+ film.
Brent
Second Light
Wandering Chicago with a medium format camera means lugging around some heavier equipment. It’s also not very unobtrusive.
Chicago Part II: Buildings and Streets
Camera: Hasselblad 501CM, 80mm/f2.8 Planar lens, Ilford PanF+ film.
Brent
Second Light
Urban centers of mega cities like Chicago might intimidate some, but it is an architectural wonderland ripe with subject matter for the photographer.
Chicago Part I: A River Runs Through It
Camera: Hasselblad 501CM, 80mm/f2.8 Planar lens, Ilford Pan F+ film.
Brent
Many communities and artists organizations beg and plead for a way to create an artist community or a place for artists studios. Usually, it’s the lack of money that prevents a great idea from becoming something great.
Here in the Cincinnati area, we’ve got a few places where artists can create a studio space, but nothing [...]
Every January, my thoughts turn to baseball. It is my favorite game. It’s America’s game. For five seasons, I was the team photographer for the South Bend Silver Hawks in South Bend, Indiana, a Class A Minor League Team of the Arizona Diamondbacks. I captured about 30,000 images, and produced several exhibits.
Batting Helmets was captured [...]
The look is a little different and the content is brand new. The old web site became a little unfocused and the only way to really fix it was to wipe the slate clean and start from scratch.
So be patient. A new and improved DBrent.com is coming.
D. Brent Miller
12/13/2008