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VSCO (Visual Supply Co) – Film for Adobe Lightroom 3: Where have you been my whole life?

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VSCO Film is awesome. It’s just amazing how great these images look (especially the skin tones), and how efficiently I am able to process these without having to leave Lightroom to get the look that I want.

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The Mamiya ZD Digital Back Review Series: I Introduction

Mamiya ZD Digital Back Portrait 80mm f/2.8

The Mamiya ZD Digital back is a 22 MP digital medium format back that is used on my Mamiya 645 AFD Camera. I am cataloging my journey with this camera with pros and cons of this system, my thoughts and sample photos along the way.

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Allow me to introduce the newest member of my camera collection…

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This is my Mamiya 6, a medium format film camera that takes 120 roll film. It’s a rangefinder which makes it very compact for the size of film (it shoots a 6 x 6 cm negative). My lovely wife, Annie, was nice enough to model for me to test it out before using it for any of my weddings/engagement sessions. The results I feel are superb.

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Seattle Travel Photography: {Pike Place Market}

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This week I am traveling with my new lens – a bit of an odd one – but cool non-the-less. It’s a Photex 80mm f/2.8 Tilt/Shift lens. It’s kind of awesome actually – all manual, very retro metal construction, and has both shift and tilt functionality.

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My Wedding Photography Albums are Awesome!

Flushmount Wedding Album

I highly recommend getting an album to remember your wedding day. I currently offer two sizes of albums and try to keep things as simple as possible – 12″ x 12″ or 10″ x 10″. The album pages are thick, beautiful photographic prints laminated to a substrate which gives each page substance.

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