New Camera

November 21, 2006 D. H. McKee

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Picked up a sweet deal on a Canon Rebel XTi and a couple of lenses — the stock 18-55 lens and a 70-300 zoom lens. I’m using my older Sony camera to snap this picture. It’s got a harsh flash, and without it, everything is usually blurry unless it’s noon and sunny and I’m outside.

The Rebel takes some pretty nice pictures. This one was using the 18-55 lens in night mode with macro focusing.

These others were taken with the zoom lens. One is down Princess St, from the parallel parking space at the top of the street. The action was sufficient to capture a passing car in three frames. If I zoom in on the original, I can read the guy’s license plate.

This was taken from the Starbucks/Chapters parking lot at King and Weber. The bikes are on the side facing King St.

The following shot was in my own parking lot. The cars are about sixty feet away.

I’m going to try it out a bit and see if it improves my abilities as an amateur photographer.

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As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

Writers often treat the bio like it’s an interview or something. Maybe like they’re having a conversation with you, the reader. While it may work sometimes, the most common way to write a bio is to write in the 3rd person.

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Like blogs of old, this one is a personal document of the comings and goings of me. Articles I’ve written, links I’ve posted, videos I liked, etc. Here, a first-person perspective is the way to go, at least for now. So, this is my site. I’m D. H. McKee, a sometimes artist, sometimes writer. Mostly just a guy on the internet.