OJBs Web Site: Photography Intro

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Conventional Digital Cameras (Up to OJB's Photo Page)

Photography Introduction

This is where I discuss one of my other long-term interests, photography. I have been interested in all types of photography including subjects like people, landscapes, seascapes and even the night sky (see my astronomy pages for more information about astronomy).

I currently use a Canon EOS650D digital SLR as my main camera but I probably take more using the camera in my iPhone 5. Obviously this doesn't give results as technically good as a real camera but there is an old adage in photography: the best camera is the one you have with you when you need it!

I have used many other digital cameras in the past: a Canon EOS 500D, a 350D, a Canon G6, and a Sony and a Nikon compact digital. For more information on digital photography go to my Digital. section. I haven't done any conventional (film) photography for may years but I still have a Canon EOS-5. You can see information on this camera and a discussion of conventional photography (just in case you're still interested) in my Conventional section.

The image used in the title of this page is a photo I took at the 1988 Word Expo in Brisbane, Australia. Technically the exposure, depth of field and other aspects are just about perfect (not always easy, especially using long exposures with no tripod). The image itself is a bit surreal I guess - where is this strange world of neon? The long neon tube under the monorail track and the illuminated human figures are particularly weird. Like all the photos here no filters, darkroom or electronic tricks were used.

Photo Galleries

I have put some of my favourite photographs in the photo galleries. These are high quality images from my digital camera which have had some basic processing done in Pixelmator (and previously in Photoshop). Some of the old images were scanned from both slides (using a Microtek 35 mm slide scanner) and prints (using an Agfa or Microtek flatbed scanner) and corrected for brightness, color balance, etc to match the original as much as possible. Obviously the final appearance will depend on your machine. They look best on a Mac with the monitor gamma corrected to be fairly neutral. If you don't have a Mac, a PC or other machine which can display thousands or millions of colours would do.