Wednesday, December 17, 2014
©Photo By Steve Keegan, 2014 All Rights Reserved.I had to leave for a wedding out of the area this past weekend, and it just occured to me that I never posted the last image for my Black & White Challenge! This image was taken with my iPhone while waiting for my plane to arrive inside the Reno/Tahoe Airport main terminal. This is actually a refection in the window. I liked the surreal nature of the image, the grain, the cowboy hats and just the overall scene.For the final day of the Black & White challenge, I nominate fellow Reno photographer and photojournalist David Parker. I met David while interning at the Reno Gazette-Journal a long, long time ago. Have fun, David!
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 ...