Camera Boomer - Ray Horner

How anyone can have fun with their camera


Category: Gallery: Black & White

Brandley Point West Haven, Connecticut

12 February, 2008 (19:59) | Gallery: Black & White, Gallery: Landscapes | 1 comment

This is part of a series of photos taken in my home town. This is a digital shot taken with my digital Canon Rebel Xti, taken on a tripod. I will share some more soon.

New Haven, Connecticut

13 January, 2008 (23:32) | Gallery: Black & White | No comments

This Photo was taken in the town in which I was born and raised.

Harlem, New York 2005

12 January, 2008 (23:24) | Gallery: Black & White | No comments


Miller Street School

11 January, 2008 (23:23) | Gallery: Black & White | No comments

This photo was taken while I was work as a graphic artist. Young people love to get in front the camera. This was taken after the more serious shooting was done.

Self Portrait

27 December, 2007 (02:33) | Gallery: Black & White | 2 comments

Picture makers often make self portraits from time to time. I am no different, I guess it is because we are often making pictures for others. If we desire a picture of ourselves  we  have to model for it ourselves. We are also cheap models. I have made self portraits in other mediums such as […]

Leica Summitar 50mm wide open f2.0

21 November, 2007 (21:38) | Gallery: Black & White | No comments

This picture of at close friend’s wife was taken with available light, with a Leica IIIg and Summitar 50mm lens opened to f2.0. I think this is a good lens for taken pictures of women. It gives a nice smoothness to the skin and blurs the background nicely. Some lenses are overly sharp and unflattering […]

Henri Cartier-Bresson Acted Out

19 November, 2007 (04:27) | Gallery: Black & White | 5 comments

This image was taken with a Nikon FM with 50 1.8mm lens. Let me say this photo is not a Henri Cartier-Bresson style decisive moment photo, but one in which I asked Aunt Bertha to kiss Uncle Gus. Some folks think I just saw them in the moment and took the picture. They were close […]

Rosie a blogging boomer taken with a boomer camera

15 November, 2007 (19:06) | Gallery: Black & White | 1 comment

With this image I used my Leica IIIg with a Summitar lens to take a photo of Rosie of blogging for boomers This is a pretty active site that gives tips to boomers who want to blog or already blogging. Check out the podcast interviews by people such as Cathy Perkins TheWordPressWizard and Kevin […]

Dad photographed with a Contax G1

12 November, 2007 (22:33) | Gallery: Black & White | 2 comments

This image was photographed using a Contax G1 45 mm lens. Low light using a lamp as the light source. Processed at the local Costco’s then I had it scanned to a disk.

Success starts with a dream

12 November, 2007 (04:12) | Gallery: Black & White | No comments

This image was taken with a Nikon Ftn with a 50 1.4 lens on a very hot day in July. I only had a moment to pose the young man for the shot. This image has been used for mini prints with text along the bottom.

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