cameraboomer on January 6th, 2009

Picture of Dad as a young man. The camera equipment is unknown but, cameras don’t make pictures people do. The camera is the tool to make it happen. So what ever picture making tool you have go out and make those Pic’s. Some  images can only be appreciated after time has played it’s part in allowing them to [...]

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cameraboomer on February 12th, 2008

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.

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cameraboomer on January 13th, 2008

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

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cameraboomer on January 12th, 2008
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cameraboomer on January 11th, 2008

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.

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cameraboomer on December 27th, 2007

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 [...]

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cameraboomer on November 21st, 2007

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 [...]

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cameraboomer on November 19th, 2007

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 [...]

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cameraboomer on November 15th, 2007

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 [...]

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cameraboomer on November 12th, 2007

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.

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