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Hanging with the Sigma DP Merrill Cameras
2023-07-27 21:57:13 UTC
It’s been quite some time since I’ve touched on my Sigma cameras. Specifically, my DP1 and DP2 Merrill cameras. I used to have the DP3 Merrill. But in a fit of mad desperation, I sent it to MPB in exchange for a pittance. I needed the money at the time…
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Hiking in El Malpais
2021-06-18 04:40:26 UTC
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Continuing my landscape journey with the DP Merrill trio, I took an 80-minute drive out west, halfway to the New Mexico-Arizona border. This part of the state is called El Malpais (lit: ”bad country/lands, in Spanish). It gets its name from the lava flows that dot the region.…
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Transitioning Over to Landscape Photography
2021-06-02 03:29:16 UTC
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It’s been a while but I’ve certainly been busy, especially when it comes to my photography. I’ve spent a lot of the pandemic thinking about precisely what my photography is for, exactly. Why do I make images?
I think most photographers spend time thinking about this question as well,…
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Lonely Landscapes
2021-01-25 01:00:00 UTC
The wide normal view isn’t really ideal for landscape photography, is it? It’s wide…But not wide-angle. It’s tight…But not telephoto. In short: it’s really, really boring
I’ve found it extremely challenging to work with at first because my landscape shots had a kind of “snapshot” element to them. But then…
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Entering Foveon Space with the Sigma DP2 Merrill
2020-12-29 01:50:58 UTC
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I’ve spent the past few weeks taking a break from my One Camera One Lens experiment with the Fujifilm X100V. While I intended to go back to it, I blundered into something extremely interesting: Sigma Foveon cameras.
I’ll try not to be too technical but it’s worth taking the time…