I’m pretty much unofficially the official company photographer at my work, and one of my tasks has been to take headshots of employees. Since I’ve been with the company for close to 11 years now, I’ve taken many, many, many headshots…
These days I sometimes use LinkedIn, and I see lots of these headshot photos that I have taken. It’s fun to see, and I am flattered that they still use them, but I find it somewhat odd that people who are no longer with the company still use the headshot I took.
It got me wondering about the rights to the photos… I don’t care too much about it, but I did spend company time on each photo, and used the company equipment and facilities. I guess I feel that it’s a bit unprofessional to keep using the company photo when you aren’t with the company anymore.
Besides the issue described above, some of those images are probably over five years old… it’s really time to get a new one taken, people!
One thing that every digital camera I have owned has had, but that I have never once wanted to use was the Sepia tone setting.
Which is odd, because I have an “old-timey Western” photo pinned on the wall of my kids dressed up as cowboys that was taken at a fair when they were little. I see this Sepia photo everyday. But I never ever have thought of using Sepia in my own photos.
If I could have traded the Sepia setting for a $10 discount off the price of my cameras, I would have done it every time.
We’ve been having some dreary weather here the past few days. As you can see from the photo above it was a wet drive into the office this morning, and unfortunately Koa’s baseball game was rained out this evening. So, I took him to the batting cages so he could keep sharp.
Today I did a few photography-related activities. First, at work I bought a new 50 mm F/1.8 lens for our company camera. 📷 My friend recommended this new nifty-fifty and I used it to take an employee head-shot this afternoon, which turned out pretty good. I’m very pleased with the lens!
Secondly, I tried something kind of fun, which was to smear Vaseline on a filter to simulate a blurry glamour-type photo. I was really trying to go for a dreamy, abstract type of image but I don’t think the Vaseline distorted the sharpness as much as I would have liked. Well, I did get a couple of fun kitty photos, as you can see below:
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/2.5, 1/100 sec, ISO2500 “Pop Kitties” Cedar Park, 2016
And the third thing I did was to make a few prints using our Canon inkjet printer. I’ve never been able to figure out how to print photos… my whole life, things like edges, margins, and general printer errors have left a sour taste in my mouth when it came to home printing. This evening started out with more of the same… but after a couple failed attempts, I think I am getting closer to figuring out how the Lightroom print module works. I’ve been trying to make a print with a nice 1 cm white border around it, and I was able to tweak the settings a bit to get fairly close. With minimal trimming with our paper-cutter, the results were quite nice!
I’ll post a photo of the prints later, but I think I am satisfied for now… pics of the pics will have to wait. 😛
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/3.6, 1/100 sec, ISO640 Cedar Park, 2016
こんばんは！ How’s it going?
Today was a busy, but productive day at work. When I got home, however, some new boxes of Instax film were waiting for me! I’m not sure how many photos I have printed out on my Instax printer since I got it at Christmas of last year, but it must be about 50 so far. Anyways, I was down to my last pack of 10 so I ordered three boxes. The price on Instax film has come down a lot in the past few years. I think it was close to a dollar a print not too long ago, but these days, you can find them for about 63 cents a print.
I just love the color that the film is capable of. Below is a photo of how I keep my family pics at work. We don’t have much shelf space in our new open-style office, so I just put some Instax prints in my Pantone book. Maybe I will get a nice flip frame for some more prints, but for now, I think this will do just fine. 😄
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/4, 1/125 sec, ISO4000 Cedar Park, 2016
こんばんは！ Hello, how are you doing?
Today’s photo is of my favorite shoes (well, the type of shoe) – Converse Chuck Taylor Hi-tops. I’ve pretty much always had a pair or two since high school, my favorite colors being, black, red, and white. I’ve also owned several lo-top Chucks as well.
What I love about them is that they are super comfortable, although when you first get them, they are kind of weird feeling. Every time I get a new pair, I wonder how anyone could have played basketball in these things. I mean, the soles are so flat and the high tops are not strong enough for any kind of ankle support… I think they are just high so that the shoes wouldn’t come off if someone stepped on them during a game. But, after you wear them for a few weeks, they feel so good!
Anyways, the past few days I have been experimenting with taking more photos, but not spending as much time composing the image, or wondering if the image is interesting enough to post. These photos are simply for fun, and mainly to keep for myself, although I might share them too! For these snapshots, I switch my camera to shoot the smallest dimension, in square format. I also have a custom setting in my camera that uses Velvia film simulation with +2 to both highlights and shadows. I wish the custom setting would automatically change the size and aspect ratio, but that’s not too big a deal since I can do it easily with the Q menu. The photos are only about 2 megabytes in size. It’s wonderfully liberating to just snap a few photos of everyday things and not worry about making a nice image, nor taking up huge amounts of space on my hard drive. It’s just fun!
Here are a couple of these types of photos. Nothing amazing, but nice memories and slices of life. In the first one, I just liked the way the evening sun was coming in through the kitchen window. The second one is… well, it’s fun to take pictures of pets, isn’t it?
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/3.6, 1/100 sec, ISO1250 Cedar Park, 2016Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/4, 1/100 sec, ISO6400 Cedar Park, 2016
Well, I hope you have a great evening, and a nice Thursday!
おやすみなさい！
– B
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