It’s been well over three months since the last one of these. Here are some of my favorite shots from that time that never made it to any other posts here. They were captured in various parts of the southern US and Jamaica. All of them were taken with my X-Pro1 and processed differently in … Continue reading
I was pleasantly surprised the other day to find out that VSCO released the fifth installment of its film emulation software. They called it “The Archetype Films Collection” describing what’s inside as “mass market consumer film emulations, from the golden era of analog.” If you’ve visited my blog before, you’ve probably seen one of these … Continue reading
According to the website, VSCO’s fourth pack is dedicated to “current and discontinued slide film emulations that produce rich and vivid tones” – it does not disappoint. The pictures in my last post were all processed in Lightroom using this latest VSCO film pack. In the past, I’ve posted several examples of different VSCO film … Continue reading
Reality is starting to settle in – it’s a good thing. I just came home to Lebanon yesterday… but that’s not the home I’m writing about. My new home is in Miami, and it didn’t really hit me until I came back there a few days ago from a short assignment in New Orleans. It … Continue reading
A week ago at this time, I was on a train heading to New York. I was going on business and unfortunately, I was only staying for two days. Despite being off Sunday through Tuesday, I had to rush back for a Saturday shift that none of my colleagues were willing or able to pick up. … Continue reading
I haven’t taken the 14mm off my X-Pro1 for a few weeks now. It’s a nice lens and I’d like to think that I’ve been getting some pretty nice shots with it… but I want to get some even nicer ones. Unfortunately, I haven’t been in my best state of mind lately. To make matters … Continue reading
It’s been two weeks since my last ‘random’ post, and although I haven’t been taking as many pictures as I’d like recently, I still wanted to share some of my favorite shots from the past couple weeks. Even if they’re nothing spectacular, I like each one of them for different reasons. They were all taken … Continue reading
The other day I went out with my 5D to shoot some flowers. I was on the hunt for bees… but I had no luck with that. I did walk away with some keepers though, two of which form the foundation of this post. I really love my macro lens and I’ll be writing a long overdue … Continue reading
I’ve posted several times already on VSCO film emulation, showing examples of the various color presets. This time, I’m showing examples of the B&W presets from all thee packs. There are other +/- variations for most presets shown below, but most of them are grainy or faded. Some people like that look; obviously I don’t. … Continue reading
I love the spring. Surely I’m not alone… The weather in DC truly blows most of the time.The only exceptions come in spring and autumn. I took some pictures two weeks ago on ‘the first day of spring’ but it was cold and windy, plus there wasn’t much to shoot. It just started getting really nice outside … Continue reading
Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates! Right about now I’m not too happy… when this post goes up, I’ll be wrapping up a teleconference meeting. That’s become part of my Sunday routine – work. I’d rather be out enjoying the nice weather! But over the last couple months, I’ve been trying to do some different kind of … Continue reading
I started playing around with VSCO film emulation a little over a month ago. But up until recently, I only experimented with the Professional folder in the third pack (as well as presets from the other two). I assumed the Consumer pack would be practically useless, but as the pictures below show, I was probably wrong. … Continue reading
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