Photography

Fuzzy apple, originally uploaded by kevinbhookun. While looking through all my camera shelves last night, I decided to work on a new project. The name of this post is a bit cryptic but let me explain. My very first camera was the original Nikon FM. I still have it to this day. It is still in working condition, although there is a dent on the prism, that doesn't seem to affect anything else. This camera is a beast in the field, It fell, got kicked, went to the amazon with me in 1998, and still lives to this day. And I am about to put it to the task again. Project FM is a personal endeavour...


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Nature's wonders, originally uploaded by kevinbhookun. Does anyone know?


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Train ride from Delhi to Agra, originally uploaded by kevinbhookun. Slums between Delhi and Agra (2006)


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What kind of DAM process do I use? Digital Assets Management has been a no-brainer for me since the introduction of Adobe Lightroom and Apple's response Aperture a couple years ago. A lot has happened since then. Plugins and add-ons emerged to make the workflow easier. Gone are the days of fiddling with folders and finder items, or are they really? With all the widgets, gadgets and plugins around today, I found myself drifting out of the all-in-one solution basket, towards a more universalist view on how to manage my workflow. Workflow for a professional photographer can be a headache, as not only...


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Ok so the previous idea was great, the nokia, the bluetooth GPS and the 20 steps to geo-tagging an image when I get home. I had it all planned out. No, really I did. We took a drive (5 hours) to Quebec City last weekend. Great weather, great place. Among other things, I wanted to test my previous write up. Turned on the GPS, started the track record on the nokia, and went on walking and taking photos... It is only later on, when I got back home 2 days later that I realized that the GPX file generated by the nokia app had locked and was corrupted. All the points had the same coordinates. No good. Today,...


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Because there is a difference... Since having iPhoto '09, my interest in geotagging images has been revived. I am now victim of this new obsession of getting GPS location embedded in my vacation images. Why? no real reason, just the "Cool" factor, and the fact that it is afterall not that difficult to do. It is not difficult but it can get expensive and you can easily get carried away into spending hundreds of dollars in cool gadgets that can do just about as much as I will explain below. I didn't want to spend any money. well I did, but I didn't. If you see what I mean. I already have access...


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Birds on a wire, [1 of 11]originally uploaded by keverz - More on Flickr. I've had a Lomo Kompakt for quite a while now. It is an original soviet construction, given to me by my mother-in-law who in fact, worked at Lomo a long time ago, in St Petersburg, Russia. I never had a chance to test it out until about a year ago, when I just dropped a roll of film in it and went out to grab some random images. Caught between the near perfectness of the exposure, the absolute erratic un-sharpness of the image, I found myself intrigued by this little black box that I heard so much about. This...


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