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Rob Coats

In Apple, Business, Carl F. McKinney, Columbus, Life, Ohio, Photography, Portraits on 6 April 2009 tagged Canon, Columbus, Network Your Life, NYL, Rob Coats with 5 comments

Network Your Life CEO and founder Rob Coats during a quick portrait session downtown.

Peedie

In Carl F. McKinney, Carl McKinney Photography, Columbus, Ohio, Photography, Portraits on 24 March 2009 tagged Carl McKinney, Columbus, Katawi Cato, love, Ohio with 1 comment

Taken while setting up for a shoot with the Mental Health Association of Franklin County.

Inside out

In Carl F. McKinney, Carl McKinney Photography, Life, Photography on 25 February 2009 tagged Columbus, Short North with no comments

Short North, Columbus, OH

Canon gets shifty

In Carl F. McKinney, Carl McKinney Photography, Columbus, Photography, edification, tech on 19 February 2009 tagged Canon, Carl McKinney, Photography, tilt shift with no comments

Canon gets shifty: “

Canon today announced an update to their line-up of tilt-shift lenses, giving more control to the existing 24mm f/3.5 TS lens, and more impressively introducing a 17mm f/4L, by far the widest tilt-shift lens made for the 35mm system. Tilt-shift lenses allow you to play with the focal plane in much the same way that you can do with most large format view cameras. Check out the Canon flickr group for some examples. The standard use for this is to create deep depth-of-field even wide open and to adjust for perspective distortion, getting all of your vertical lines straight. This is a big deal for architectural shooters and editorial shooters who know that photo editors and art buyers go crazy over that ‘view camera look.’

But the real uptick in recent tilt-shift users have been photographers ‘using it wrong’ — creating interesting fields of blur that are unrelated to a subject’s distance from the camera. It’s a big trend in artsy wedding photography, for instance, and although I’ve never gotten into it…..

(Via Amazon.)

Google’s Answer To The Kindle?

In Life, edification, mobile, tech on 6 February 2009 tagged Google with no comments

Google’s Answer To The Kindle?: “

You’ve got to love Google and their maaaad embrace of the iPhone platform. They’ve contributed a ton to the growth of the platform.

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(Via Techcrunch.)