I take some digital photos as a hobby.
I have boxes of prints from film, too, but as they're harder to digitize and more expensive to work from, my focus in recent years has been digital photography. I'm always trying to learn more, especially about using light to my advantage.
I almost never use my flash; one of the things you'll notice about my work is that I'm trying to capture interesting lighting that I see in the world around me. That may be sunlight, patterns of artificial light, or long exposures to stray photons bouncing around in the dark. In addition to that, my interests include close-up photography (to the best of my cameras' meager abilities) and lately I've been trying to get a handle on landscapes and geology, especially in the gorges around Ithaca but also in parks I travel to - I've been having some fun at Hawk Mountain in Pennsylvania, and I snapped a few good ones at Crater Lake in Oregon. This winter I may be able to stop by Joshua Tree National Park in California; if anything comes of that I'll definitely post it here.
Most of the photos in this section are taken with one of two cameras.
Selected relevant features of the Canon PowerShot S50 (filenames like img_1234.jpg)
* I got this camera in Aug 2004
* 5-megapixel CCD with RGB primary color filters
* Image sizes of 2592x1944, 1600x1200, 1024x768 and 640x480
* Canon 3x optical f/2.8-4.9 zoom lens (35-105mm in 35mm format)
* ISO settings of Auto, 50, 100, 200 or 400
* Shutter speeds from 15 secs to 1/1500
* Noise reduction for 1.3 sec or longer time exposures
* Program AE (with Program Shift), Shutter-priority, Aperture-priority and Manual.
* Exposure Metering: Center-Weighted Average, Spot, and Evaluative
* Manual focus with distance readout and the portion of the image covered by the active focusing point is enlarged while focusing.
* AF assist focusing illuminator for dim to dark environments
* User-selectable exposure compensation, flash exposure compensation, auto exposure bracketing and white balance
* Playback histogram function with over-exposure warning
Selected relevant features of the Kodak DX3600 (filenames like dcp_1234.jpg)
* I got this camera in Dec 2001.
* CCD Sensor (Megapixels): 2.20
* Image Resolution: 1800x1200, 900x600
* 2x optical zoom lens (equivalent to 35-70mm)
* ISO Settings: 100, 200
* Longest Shutter Time: 1/8
* Shortest Shutter Time: 1/1200
* Max Aperture: f/3.3
* sucks
All photos are licensed under the CC license below. If you would like to use any photos for a use not covered by the license (say, commercial use), email me.