by Kevin Thom | Jan 18, 2006 | Photography
I did a shoot with Melanie, a local photographer. She has never modeled before, but wanted some nudes done, so she contacted me. We met last week and bounced some ideas around, then agreed to meet tonight for the shoot. We did the shoot at her studio because I wanted...
by Kevin Thom | Jan 16, 2006 | Improv, Personal, Photography
It’s been a long time since I’ve written in my blog. I didn’t mean to neglect it, but it seems that craziness has ensued. I kind of decided to work harder this year, because I think 2005 was the Year of Leisure. 2006 is the Year of Digging Out from...
by Kevin Thom | Jan 9, 2006 | Photography
For the second time in a couple of weeks, I took the memory card out of the camera and put it into the computer, only to find out there are no photos on it. This is really weird. It’s possible in both of the cases that I accidentally formatted the card, because...
by Kevin Thom | Dec 21, 2005 | Photography
Well, my 10D went for about $845 on Ebay. It’s less than I would have liked, but Ebay seems to find the market value for something. Other similar cameras are selling for similar amounts. Look at it from this perspective: I paid about $1600 altogether for Baby D...
by Kevin Thom | Dec 16, 2005 | Personal, Photography
Well, I did it. I put my beloved Baby D on sale at Ebay. It has to go though. I need the money to help pay for Pappa D, and I doubt I’d use it now, even as a backup. I’m hoping someone will make a really nice Christmas gift of it. I got a sign up package...
by Kevin Thom | Dec 4, 2005 | General, Photography
Plenoptic light field rendering is the future of photography. Basically the image is captured by a grid of thousands of microlenses. Each microlens captures a grid of pixels, and you use a computer program to choose which pixel in each grid is used to make up the...