Home studio

As I go about cleaning out my garage at home I am planning out a small home
studio setup for portraits, still-life and product shots. Won't be anything
too fancy but will be nice to have a bit more space to move around.

Been having some hardware technical issues lately. My computer has been
giving some weird behaviour that is telling me it's time to rebuild with a
fresh install of the operating system. My camera has been having fits
periodically for a while but I am not really in a position right now to have
it checked/serviced by Nikon. My 20mm Nikkor is having a sticky diaphragm
again...and to top it all off my printer was having issues lastnight with it
not wanting to load paper correctly. Really frustrating to deal with all
this but hopefully none of it will entail any major expenditure.

Oh well, will just keep working around them all and keep taking photos.

Website link

After posting about my website I realized I forgot to include a link to my
website...d'oh!

www.ianmildon.com

Pretty simple and easy to remember address. Kept it fairly short as I don't
like having to type in long website names.

Updates

Finally moving forward with my blog and my website. I have got rid of the
"coming soon" placeholder page and have at least got my name and links to my
blog and Twitter out there. I also have a uniform look to both my blog and
website to hopefully create a clean look and ease of reading.

With a little more work I will get more samples of my photography on both
sites and create a larger online presence for myself and my work.

Reworking my blog

I will, as time allows look to reworking my online presence some more. I
have a domain and website behind this blog that would allow me to display
higher resolution photos than I currently post here on my blog. I am
thinking that I may do better to create photo albums on my website and look
into tying the two sites together with links between the two.

Whatever happens, there will be more activity from me and more photos taken
and posted.

Some regrets

Some 20 years ago I picked up a used Zorki 4K rangefinder camera at a good price and spent a few years experimenting with the different techniques required in using a rangefinder as apposed to an SLR.  As I was unemployed at that time I eventually re-sold it.  Now I look back with some regret, as I once again feel drawn to using a rangefinder camera to "simplify" things and immerse myself into the art of photography without having to worry about all the electronics on a modern digital SLR.  That and film still has the edge on image quality in a way that digital still has not quite matched.  Not that I intend selling off my digital camera and lenses....I just fully intend to once again add a rangefinder (or more!!) to my collection and once again shoot some film.  Plus, I have a pretty nice scanner so I can digitize the film negatives/slides to have digital backups and to be able to share images here.

Stay tuned for developments.

Going to be posting more photos

I have mentioned it before and I have been meaning to do this for some time but today I am finally following through and posting a couple new images.  And I fully intend to keep on posting more images from now on.  The photos I am posting today are from my initial forays into portrait work and are photos I submitted as part of my NYIP Professional Photography course.  Both these portraits are taken with natural light - the first, outdoors under a tree at dusk to capture some of that wonderful lighting; the second, indoors next to a window to capture the sunlight while a reflector helped fill in some of the shadows.

More coming soon

For anyone who may be interested, I do intend to make this blog more of a repository for a selection of my photographic work.  Time permitting, I will try to keep things a bit fresher on here and post more often.

I will still be posting random thoughts and other stuff when the mood strikes me.