Category: Photography

Camden Mayor Dana Redd at the Citizen’s Campaign Camden Call to Service, 04/01/2011, originally uploaded by john m flores. The Pentax K-x got a workout last night, shooting an event in Camden NJ. The DA* 50-135 was used all night – the zoom range was perfect for the situation – large assembly area with smaller…

Spent some time with the folks at the National Popular Vote, a group seeking to ensure that the presidential candidate with the most popular votes wins. Paychex founder and erstwhile independent Tom Golisano has recently signed on as spokesperson (and major donor) and they announced their redoubled efforts in Washington DC. For more information about…

A cheap and cheerful Sigma, originally uploaded by john m flores. I’ve had a cheap and cheerful Sigma 28-80 F3.5-5.6 plastic fantastic sitting in a drawer for a year now. Thought I’d take it out for a quick spin in the yard to see if it still catches light. Yup, it does.

Pentax’s missed marketing opportunity…, originally uploaded by john m flores. Ahhh, what might have been…

Macro Comparison – Panasonic GH2 vs Pentax K20, both with the DA35 F2.8 Macro Limited, originally uploaded by john m flores. Here’s one of those rare circumstances when you can test two cameras using the same lens. The effective focal length changes of course when you move the lens from one camera to the next,…

Sepia correction of GH2 video, originally uploaded by john m flores. Ok, back to the GH2. Because the GH2’s AWB effed up the WB – setting the WB to the room instead of the subject – I had to try to fix it in post. My version of Final Cut does have a WB tool…

Roland Sands-before and after, originally uploaded by john m flores. One of these days, poor Roland Sands is going to Google his name and find this 100% on the Internets LOL! But for the pixel peepers out there, here’s a closer look at Mr. Sands, and the adjustments I made in Adobe Lightroom 3. As…

Showing the Panasonic GH2 EVF and a couple of things it does particularly well, namely… A) working with manual focus lenses, and B) chimping without taking the camera away from your eye The EVF isn’t perfect; it really starts to look like grainy video in low light, and the colors seem a little amped. But…

I shot this after my snowshoe last weekend. Like RIGHT after, as you can see LOL! Shot in Intelligent Movie mode, which is basically an “I don’t know what the heck I’m doing so I’m just going to press this Red button and hope it all comes out nice” mode. This is not like me,…

2 Cameras, 6 Bananas, originally uploaded by john m flores. Here’s a side by side of the photos. The colors of the GH2 are punchier for sure. But as I said before, the K20d’s colors were more representative of the actual scene. Is Panasonic punching up the colors on purpose? We do live in an…