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The Nikon D500
Tulsa World news photographer Ian Maule photographed me in the media area at the Big 12 Championship football game at AT&T Stadium in Dallas Dec. 19. Photographer Kyle Phillips at one of our sister...
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Steal My Balls and Play with Them
Christmas is almost here, and that means photography. I recently grabbed some of my favorite lenses to help create these beautiful backgrounds. In some circles, these artifacts are called “bokeh...
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Fooling Around with Christmas Lights
My wife Abby has been in the hospital for a couple of days. She’s getting better, and we hope she comes home tomorrow, but in the mean time, since I can’t visit her due to the pandemic, I have been...
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Another Lens for the Collection
My “new” 30-something Nikkor 50-135mm f/3.5 sits in my studio. I had never seen one in the field, so I think it’s safe to say it was an undiscovered asset. The outward-swooping colored lines are the...
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A Vanishing Skill: Manually Focusing a Lens
A tiger swallowtail butterfly harvests nectar from blossoms on one of my cherry trees recently. I possess an increasingly rare skill: being able to focus a manual-focus lens. In today’s...
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The Fujifilm X100V
I recently had the opportunity to make a few photographs with an unusual camera: the Fujifilm X100V. The Fujifilm X100V is a handsome, capable camera. In a photographic world dominated by digital...
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A Passel? A Cluster? A Stockpile?
Sometimes it’s just fun to buy cheap stuff on Ebay. My readers have long known that I like lenses for more reasons than their use to make photographs. I think lenses are beautiful, interesting objects...
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Spherochromatism
Here’s an example of spherochromatism, a type of chromatic aberration that is common to large-aperture lenses in the telephoto range, and is more obvious when focusing closely. This aberration is...
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A Look Back: The Nikon FG-20
I received an unusual gift recently from my friends at People’s Electric Cooperative: a Nikon FG-20 film camera, with three lenses, a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8, a Nikkor 35-70mm f/3.3-4.5, and a Vivitar...
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Review: Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 and Nikkor 35-70mm f/3.3-4.5
As I promised in my last entry, here are quick reviews of the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 and the Nikkor 35-70mm f/3.3-4.5. The Nikkor 35-70mm f/3.3-4.5 and the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 sit back-to-back. They are among...
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Fill Up the Frame
Coach Jeff Parnell talks to his starters prior to the Stonewall Lady Longhorns matchup with Earlsboro Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021 at Murphy-Roberts Gym in Stonewall. Shot with my 20mm f/2.8 lens on a camera...
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Full-Frame Saves My Wide Angles
I am teaching another photography class this month at Pontotoc Technology Center. On the first night of class, we talk about some of the basics of digital photography, and the topic of sensor size is...
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I Like Good-Looking Lenses
I know it seems shallow, but I like my lenses to look big, heavy, powerful, and intimidating. I hate lenses that look like dog noses or pastry funnels. I like lenses that look like NASA took ten years...
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To Filter or Not to Filter
A child is silhouetted against approaching emergency lights during the Asher, Oklahoma Christmas parade earlier this month. It’s been a completely amazing holiday season for me as a journalist and...
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The Truth about Sensor Size
Life is full of foolish myths, ideas that get planted into our brains by rumor or gossip or misperception, and seem to endure. One of those myths in photography is that sensor size affects depth of...
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Four Decades with Nikon
Last week at the Oklahoma City Tennis Center, I was photographing a young Ada High School Cougar named Eden Boggs competing in the state tournament. Her opponent’s coach looked over at me and asked,...
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Children of a Lesser Nikon
One of the biggest reasons my generation of photographers started with Nikon was their absolutely fantastic lenses. They were well-built, solid, heavy, and made incredible images. Abby Barron...
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Terrifying and Wonderful
On evening photo walks, I tend to follow the same path on which I walk the dogs, counterclockwise as seen from above, mostly out of habit. The first thing I found were these overgrown Virginia creeper...
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We Love Lenses
My photographer friend Robert was in town this weekend, and we did the photographer thing, including a photo shoot Robert did for some of his fellow church friends. Robert and I share a slightly...
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58mm: All That Glitters is Not Gold
Today: a look at a lens that came with a grab bag of cameras from an estate sale, the MC Rokkor-PF 58mm f/1.4. Periodically, you hear me, or any of an additional million photographers and photo...
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