Foto Talk

As A photographer who lives in the rather small city of Durham NC, I sometimes find it hard to shoot interesting subjects... at least when it comes to shooting people. I look at some of my favorite photographers on the net and watch as they navigate the streets with ease collecting images of some of the most interesting characters who seem unmoved by the presence of the guy with the camera shoved right in their face.   Street photography for me is a bit of an enigma. This small town of mine seems to only have two streets that pedestrians walk on regularly, and those two streets don't...


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Update: After reading this be sure to check out images that relate here at my new post titled, "Fuji X-Pro1: Ditching the Huge DSLRs to Shoot Models". With the recent rumors about a new firmware update and lenses that will speed up focusing and boost performance, as well as the addition of a few new X series cameras coming to the Fuji line-up, I have begun to find it difficult to justify keeping more than one DSLR camera body. As it stands I own two Canon's. A 5DMKII and, as a back up, the 7D. The decision to rid myself of the 7D would be an easy one if I didn't depend on the video function...


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The "Upbuilding Whitted School" documentary has been finished about a month now and our first viewing of the film will take place this week. As that day approaches our team has worked to get all the press related information out to the public. During an interview with the Durham NC, Herald-Sun newspaper, we got a chance to go back to the Whitted school and hang out for a while. Of course, the photographer in me took over and I had to take a few photos....                  


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Reading forums and reviews, a person might be inclined to believe that the Fuji X-Pro 1 is a camera incapable of performing even the simplest of  photographic tasks. Many of the negative comments, blog posts, and reviews seem to miss the point of this amazing enigma of a camera. Posters who have never even handled the camera  will find something negative to harp in on, taking only the worst observations of the reviewers and amplifying them to tremendous levels in forums. The chatter sound that the Fuji XF lenses made is just one such example of this widespread hysteria. The commenting seems to reach...


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