Long time no talk…
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So what have I been up to? A few things:
So I’m still alive. I’ll be updating the site soon.
Word.
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I learned this lesson at a young age (I think it was with the first guitar amp I bought around 16 or 17) but it’s only been within the last few years that I’ve adjusted my purchases appropriately.
John Ruskin wrote in 1874:
It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money — that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot — it can’t be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man’s lawful prey.
New video
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God I love video.
Here is what I’ve been up to over the Holidays: le vid.
Kilyakai.
Damn good local metal.
Another vid… and it’s not hip hop.
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Here is a great tune I shot for Makeshift Innocence. It’s all done in the singer’s basement.
The ol’ 50mm 1.8 did well.
Do You In the 80’s
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Here is a new music video I shot for Ricca Razor Sharp. We filmed this at his place, in my studio and around Calgary.
Originally I had some credits during the intro that looked like old school Dot Matrix printing, plus I had the ol’ Dot Matrix sound as the letters appeared on screen. To my surprise most people in the demographic had no idea what the sound was and didn’t ‘get’ the relationship to the font, so I turfed it. I guess I should’ve expected that, but I thought it was kinda clever.
For those who have no idea what I’m talkin’ ’bout here is a sample
If you’re a local band looking for a video (or, of course, some photos) contact me!
Nov 7 - the Artlife show opened.
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Thanks again to everyone that showed up!
Here is a little video of the setup and opening: SHOW ME
My first art show!
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Pretty stoked about this one. It’s free and booze will be available so, if you live around here, COME ON DOWN! Most of my work will be new stuff that nobody has seen.
It’s been a lot of work, though… much more than I anticipated. I’m hoping to bring something a little different to the gallery.
It certainly hasn’t been cheap. I refuse to go the gallery frame route. Not that there is anything wrong with that, I just think I’ll add some spice to the mix.
So, for anyone else planning something like this I’ll outline my costs so far:
7 frames from the net: $850
Glass for 5 of those and backboard for 2: $140
2 Frames from local source: $70
Matting: $100
Matting kit: $100
Prints: $300
Wow. Gotta try to stimulate that economy.
I could have done this much cheaper, but I felt that I’d be short changing myself if I didn’t pursue the vision I had.
Photographer rage
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Its a meme.
The Mac’s of the camera world.
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Gearlust strikes again. I want more megapixels.
After reading the reviews I was open to the Sony a900. I’m not going to shoot movies, its low ISO image quality is fantastic and its high ISO performance outstrips my current Nikon D80 anyway. Plus it has in body image stabilization which is a nice touch.
I go down to the store and check it out with the legitimate intent of letting it convince me to stimulate the economy.
ISO, WB and IQ settings are nice and easy to adjust - important aspects for me. Love the feel of that big shutter flapping inside that body at the press of the button. One thing that is critical to me is easy LCD zoomability and it MUST zoom in on the focus point. I cannot stand scrolling around to locate the point of most interest - what I focused on - to ensure that its sharp. Lo and behold the Sony a900 has this feature… nice!
Ok lets bring up the shot on the LCD. Press the ‘>’ button. Two, three, four seconds passes. Finally after about 5 seconds the image appears. WTF? I retest, same thing.
Ok… this sales guy must have some ancient card in here. Let’s try the Canon 5D2. We transfer the card into the Canon, take a shot, review it and *bing* it pops up on the screen within a second.
Sorry Sony but this simply will not do. I review my pictures a lot and I am not about to wait 5 seconds to see it, particularly on a THREE-FREAKIN-THOUSAND dollar camera.
Bah.
Lets try the Canon, then (I really want to spend some money). Take a couple pics, go to change the ISO. Uhhh… what’s this? You have to contort your fingers into pretzels to adjust the ISO. Same with the WB. Lets change the focus point. WHAT? I gotta press TWO buttons for this? Ridiculous. Ok… last test. Let’s see if this three thousand dollar camera zooms into the focus point when reviewing shots in the LCD.
Nope.
Three thousand dollars and it doesn’t zoom into the focus point. Every Nikon above the D200 has this feature.
Nikon is the Mac of the camera world. It costs a bit more, but usability is far superior. Well thought out UI’s are worth money and Nikon delivers. Ive discovered that I will be sticking to the Nikon world.
Just one request, Nikon: please make a D700x. Pleeeeeease?!?!?
Bunch o’ new shots up.
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I have no idea if anyone is following the feed for my blog (is there a way to tell?) but, if there is, I have a whack of new shots on my site. I put them up last weekend.
Check ‘em or wreck ‘em.