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Give Me Film or Give Me D… D… Digital!
February 4, 2018
Film is alive. I think. Kodak Ektachrome is now back! The once popular and visually distinctive 35mm film so often seen in the pages of National Geographic was discontinued in 2013. At the time, it appeared that another death nail had been driven into the spine of analog as the Rise of the Machine and the Age […]
Light and Dreams
December 20, 2017
Light is such a huge contributor to a successful shoot… well, light and attitude. You can have great light but if the attitude isn’t there, either on the part of the subject or photographer, then any success will be measured. I once photographed a group and could feel palatable tension. The photographer’s mission is to […]
The Old Man and the Images
October 12, 2017
My father-in-law is 94 years old. He is quite simply a photographer’s dream. He has a great face. He is kind, patient and very happy to model for me all day and night long. He lives in Houston (via a long, arduous journey from Teheran) and I live in Chicago. So when he’s under my […]
German precision? Mercedes and a 1956 Leica Summarit.
October 9, 2017
Picking up from the last post, the Leica Summarit was replaced by the Summilux line in 1961. The Leica Summilux is unquestionably one of the greatest lens ever produced with some of the most luxurious renderings ever. Ever! Of course, that luxury is expensive and my Zeiss Sony Planar 50 1.4 gives it a real […]
A Baseball Diamond, Train Tracks and a Somewhat Rare Photograph
October 8, 2017
The shadows are growing longer and sentimental thoughts seem to increase by the day. The Leica Summarit 50 1.5 fits the mood perfectly. Hi, my name is Scott. I’m a photographer, writer and fan of mixing old and new technology when it comes to photography. I want to introduce you to one of my more […]
The Day of the Eclipse
October 2, 2017
So, this is a one-off post but the images have some character and there’s a small surprise at the end. Small, I said. On the day of the recent eclipse, I went to Dodd Camera to return a rented Zeiss superwide lens. Then, given the Chicago neighborhood, I thought I’d park on one of those typical […]
The Kids Are Alright!
October 1, 2017
Blending a “Senior High” shoot with a “Childrens” session can be a bit of a challenge. Well, hardly children as the two young men are 18 and 16 but their sister, on the other hand, is 9 years old. With that, we met at Montrose Harbor in Chicago as the recently graduated senior enjoyed sailing […]