Mr. UPS brought my new Pentax FA 35mm f/2 AL lens today. It has an equivalent field of view on my K10d of 52.5mm, making it the closest you can get to a real “fast fifty” FoV on a Pentax DSLR. This lens has been discontinued by Pentax so I figured I’d better snap one [...]
Yesterday I posted a tutorial on photographing bokeh with a DSLR. Today I am going to attempt to do the same about pocket cameras. Please take a minute to read over the first part of my DSLR Bokeh Tutorial to familiarize yourself with the basic concepts of what bokeh is and how it is typically [...]
It’s quick and easy to get studio quality lighting in your home with almost no additional expense. Here’s a quick look behind the scenes of this photo:
As you can see, all I did was set up a couple of white boards on the kitchen counter under a fluorescent light. I learned this trick when I [...]
After sifting through the photos from my field trip to Huntsville last month I settled upon measuring as the primary area of focus for my construction project. The object above is a test model for a concept that I came up with to facilitate measurements along form work. I have a number of other ideas [...]
The home UV sanitizer project is complete. Here is the final rendering created in Form-Z. My classmates did most of their renderings using Maxwell Render. Maxwell creates amazing photo realistic renderings and is pretty simple to use. Unfortunately, it takes 6-8 hours to get a decent image. Multiply that by the number of views needed [...]
