27 September 2007 Swan (?) of the Day
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8 comments in “Swan (?) of the Day”
September 29th, 2007 at 11:20 am
I think this is an astonishingly fabulous picture. I like the next one a lot too.
Love,
Mom
October 1st, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Hi Zach, many of your pictures are very good, particularly your macros and people pictures. Super stuff. And you seem to have your colors spot on. Using CS’ Camera Raw? Friend of mine sent me the link to your blog – he has an S2 as well. I shot for many moons with mine and then moved on to a 5D. But many many fab shots came from the S2. Any plans to buy an S5?
October 1st, 2007 at 9:40 pm
Jeffrey,
Thanks for the compliment. It is somewhat more meaningful to me when people compliment me other than my mom. :)
As for your questions, I use a Fuji S5, not an S2, and I love it because it gives me great JPEGs out of camera. I just do some curve tweaking in Aperture when necessary and maybe some sharpness, but that’s about it.
October 1st, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Whupps! A nanosecond after I sent the first comment I realized yes, it had to be the S5 for those colors and DR. Funny, on the DP review Fuji forum Dirk V. was saying he preferred his 5D B&W images to the S5′s. But I would imagine the S5 would do a great job with B&Ws as well. Have you taken many of those?
ps my friend mentioned that you are a translator – if I may ask, what fields do you do translation for? I do mostly technical, here in Kyoto.
pps was that bird on the Kamogawa?
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:16 am
Are you a translator too, and here in Kyoto?
I do mostly medical and pharma-related. Things have been slow these past couple weeks, though. Thinking of giving up professional translation for playing shakuhachi on the streets. Hear you can make lots of yen that way. :)
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:26 pm
LOL, I wish there were more people who thought like you! Japanese streets would sure be a better place.
Just wanted to say that if you (and Jeff) ever want to go out shooting, I’d love to go with you, if you wouldn’t mind my tagging along that is.
OK, work. I’m in a small company called Shimadzu International, and we take care of a lot of work for the slow-moving giant across the street of the same first name. Actually, we’re looking for translators to register – mostly modest-sized bits of chem, med and bio work. If you’re interested, give me a shout at the email address I gave.
And I hear you’re from California? I grew up in San Francisco. Small world, eh?
Take it easy.
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:10 am
Funny, two San Franciscans into photography and living in Kyoto dealing with med/chem translation! I’ll email you.
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:31 am
Oh dude – this is so random! Look forward to your e-mail.