Sunday, November 02, 2014
Another Halloween has come and gone, but I thought I would share some images from the Keegan house this year. Halloween can be a time for photographers to utilize their lighting skills to create some creepy effects for trick or treaters. It was also an opportunity to play with my new Lumix GX7 camera I blogged about earlier. It's my newest rangefinder-style camera that I purchased primarily for street photography, candids and everyday use.My daughter Bridget and I spent the entire day having fun decorating the yard—a labor of love. We set up a full graveyard on the front lawn, smoke machines, spiders, webs, spooky translucent posters in the windows—backlit with strobe lights and ...
I had been looking for a new, light, inconspicuous, Micro FourThirds format camera for doing documentary street and wedding photography when I saw legendary Magnum and National Geographic photographer David Alan Harvey recommend this little beauty—a Panasonic Lumix GX7.Panasonic is not the first company I think of when I think of professional still photography equipment, but this little digital camera with a rangefinder-like feel seems like the real deal. Best of all, this format accepts some lenses made by Zeiss and Leica. It's also twice the resolution of an iPhone at 16mp, which is a pretty nice size file for most applications.The kit I purchased it in comes with a 20mm, 1.7 ...