New Digital Camera Page

So if you like huge photos of mountains, get good at lugging 500 pounds of equipment from the car out into the national parks. Or if you're my uncle and like pictures of buildings, get good at using a view camera.

Well, I like street photography; photos that show the world the way I experience it. An important part of street photography is having the camera ready all the time, and another important part is not being afraid to take lots of pictures, and another part is knowing what exposures and apertures and film speeds are likely to do to the pictures you take.

I decided I needed a digital camera, so I could shoot thousands of frames without paying to see them.

Perhaps this is all after-the-fact rationalization for an impulse purchase. It was small and cute and there was a video commercial for it playing in the store. And I played with the one they had on the display leash for 15 minutes.

Anyway, I bought it and shot a bunch of pictures. Then I ran into a little trouble. Eventually I worked it all out and here are some of my first few photos.

The tunnel under the runway near my apartment I liked the lighting in this one; it was dusk but the tunnel has those funny orange sodium lights in it. Through the windshield in the rain Daddy Dragon And his kid Scorch playfully poking his head sideways into the picture. Seggy Dragon and his brother Jeffrey Scorch got in this one too. There was a little too much flash.

Where I bought the camera A riverside park in Tonawanda Lesson: Don't shoot the sun through the trees; you may think it looks great on the ground but there's just too much dark tree in the frame. It might be ok if it were B&W print film. I don't know. Ceiling fan Zebra Car ( more of these at zebracar.com, of course). I also remember some guy on Minnesota Avenue painted cow splotches on his white postal jeep some time in 1993, but I don't have a photo of that one.    Sidewalk cafe