Entries in the Photography category:
Annual Manual Success
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
The Santa Fe Reporter publishes a large glossy Annual Manual around this time of year - giving locals and visitors lots of useful information and insight into Santa Fe.
And this year, they used 2 of my photos in the publication.
They (very cleverly) organized a photo contest asking for shots of real life in Santa Fe, and chose the best ones to illustrate the Manual.
The runners up (like me) get exposure, and the one top winner gets that and a nice prize, too.
Duckbell.com - my new photography blog
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
I’ve just launched Duckbell.com - my new blog aimed at serious amateur photographers.
As photography becomes a more important part of my business (and my out-of-hours life), I thought there was a need for a photography blog that gathered the best news around the web, and added well-written tutorials and analysis.
It’s nice to have a project of my own to work on going into the new year, and it allows me try out some approaches and techniques that will benefit my clients too.
If you’re interested in photography, please check it out. And if you know someone who just got a digital camera for Christmas, please send them along too.
Article in print edition of JPG Mag
Monday, December 03, 2007
An article of mine is featured in the latest print edition of the photography magazine, JPG, that’s just arrived in my mailbox.
The article - called ‘Prime Suspect’ - is a hymn of praise to the cheap and cheerful Canon 50mm f/1.8 II lens. They included three of my photographs to accompany the article.
JPG is a high quality print magazine available throughout the US, that has over 100,000 members contributing articles and photographs to its website. Members vote on the things they like, but an editorial panel makes the final print version.
So I’m well chuffed to have made it in. Especially as this combination of photography, journalism and the Web is an area I’m going to explore in more depth in my own big project in the New Year. More on that later, but for now, feel free to rush out and buy a copy of the mag.
‘Signs of the Times’ article for JPG online edition
Friday, October 19, 2007
My latest photo essay for the online edition of JPG Magazine looks what a neglected string of Route 66 motels reveal about Santa Fe and the city’s idea of what its identity might be.
Santa Fe, New Mexico is a schizophrenic place. The city of history and culture enjoyed by its many visitors is very different from the city of high rents and unreliable services experienced by its inhabitants.
The manically-imposed architectural consistency that reigns in the downtown area means swanky new hotels have to be donned in ‘fauxdobe’ clothes to look old. Meanwhile, in the rapidly-growing south end of town, big box store follows generic chain hotel in a sad procession all the way to the freeway.
Read the full article over at JPG magazine.
Moore Consulting clients runners up for architectural award
Monday, October 15, 2007
Last week two of our clients - Riskin Associates Architecture and D Joseph Andrade Architecture - were announced as runners-up in the inaugural Jeff Harnar Award for Contemporary Architecture.
Marci Riskin (full disclosure - Marci’s my wife) won for her Fire Station 8, and Joseph for his 2nd Street House.
I can’t claim any responsibility for Joseph’s success, but I took the photos of Marci’s fire station that were submitted in her entry.
As these were the only photographs the judges had access to (and they didn’t visit the buildings), they were an important part of the submission.
New photography article for JPG magazine
Monday, August 20, 2007
Just a quick note to let you know my latest article for the online version of JPG Magazine is up. ”Prime Suspect: the plastic fantastic” is a hymn of praise for the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 - a cheap and deeply uncool $70 prime lens.
The JPG site runs on user-generated content, but there’s also a print version available nationally in the US showcasing the best photographs and articles (voted by the users, but also subject to an editorial selection process).
Content for the front page of the site is also chosen by the editorial team, and I’m delighted to say my article was chosen for the front (complete with my accompanying photo).
The article begins:
It’s cheap, plastic and it wheezes. But it’s by far my favorite lens. My precious is the Canon 50mm f/1.8 II lens.
Eschewing such luxury developments as USM focusing or full-time manual (and don’t even think about image stabilization), this $70 lens - known variously as the ‘nifty fifty’. ‘thrifty fifty’ or ‘plastic fantastic’ - produces amazing results.
And the full version is here.
Simons and Slattery law firm website launched
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
I’m happy to announce the launch of our latest website design project - the site for Santa Fe law firm Simons & Slattery.
The firm had an old site that was out of date and difficult to maintain, so they approached Moore Consulting for a new start.
Together, we established the objectives for the new site, identifying the need for a clean professional design that was easy to update, and search-engine friendly.
Color management - welcome to a corner of hell
Friday, June 22, 2007
I must confess to have been only vaguely aware of the wide differences in the way colours are displayed online - until recently. Or rather, I was aware of the differences from testing sites in different OS and browser combinations, but I was only vaguely concerned - Macs’ 1.8 gamma meant a difference from PC’s 2.2, and every now and again I’d get a photo to edit that had a colour profile attached, but that was it.
And I was partly right about this - unlike the print design world, where color profiles for monitors, printers and the like are carefully controlled, and there’s a real struggle to get color matching as right as it can be, in the online world, we have to be a little more flexible. Almost all of our audience wouldn’t know a calibrated monitor if it ate their lunch, and most browsers (the programs, not the people) are a sorry bunch that don’t support color management anyway. It’s a sRGB world, for better or worse. Or so I thought.
New Photo Essay for JPG Magazine
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
This one’s slightly out of the ordinary. Just wanted to let you know I’ve written a photo essay for the photography site and magazine JPG. It outlines how my interest in all things photographic has grown since my daughter Fionnuala was born, and there are some photos to accompany it. So please head over and check it out if you’re interested.
JPG has an interesting model - people submit photos, essays and articles (often on particular themes), and the other users vote on them. The best end up in a print magazine that’s published every two months and available nationally (so a vote for my essay would be gratefully received).
Anyway, now back to work.
The RAW and the cooked
Friday, March 16, 2007
I’ve used digital point and shoots for 9 years - I bought an Olympus when I moved to Manhattan, Kansas and wanted to show the folks back home in England and Ireland what I was up to.
I dropped that camera somewhere in Colorado on the way back from mountain-biking in Crested Butte, and replaced it with a nice sturdy metal-bodied 2.1MP Canon PowerShot S10 when I moved to San Francisco in 2000.
Twinned with a microdrive, it accompanied me as I hiked, mountain-biked and rafted from one side of Costa Rica to the other, and took all the shots on my cycling trips across Europe and down the Mississippi.
So I’ve ended up with a lot of JPGs, and manipulated them a little too. But that had in no way prepared me for how much I’m enjoying shooting in RAW on my new Digital Rebel XT (or 350D).