Petzval Week Season 3, episode 1: Going to work with the Petzval
Author Archives: James Cockroft
FG week: recap
Two of these were shot at a roadside picnic area on the way back from Kerrville with the 50mm f/1.8 E Series. Two were shot with the new-to-me 75-150mm E Series. And the last… well I’m not sure what I shot that with. It depends, really, on where I shot it. I think I shot …
FG week, day 5: watch for pedestrians
or don’t. To be honest, I’ve grown a bit tired of pun-type street photography, but I recognize the impulse to shoot contradictory signage and whatnot. Ah, the sweet taste of internal contradiction.
My wife, studying
SubhanAllah.
FG week, day 4
I think the blur on the right side of the frame is due to film curl, and not to the lens… I think this was shot with a new copy of the Nikon 75-150 E-Series that I picked up for a song around the time I bought the FG. It, like the camera, is an …
FG week, day 3
Natural grain is to simulated grain/digital noise as nature is to manmade.
FG week, day 2
The office park at sunrise… sunrise makes everything beautiful. Or maybe it’s photography itself. This was one of Sontag’s critiques, if I recall… “…the camera’s ability to transform reality into something beautiful derives from its relative weakness as a means of conveying truth.” — James Cockroft (@jam_esc) January 1, 2015 And I do, thanks to …
