Daily Archives: February 16, 2015

 

 

Sorry about that Trey!  Actually I’m stuck in Berea, Kentucky at the Fairfield Inn!  Actually Sherelene is the Nurse Practitioner at the Baptist Health Express Care Center and we could see y yesterday that this weather system was going to trap her here, so I came up and will stay with her until this weather passes through.  We have 6 inches of snow now, and are predicted to get 18 inches!  For us that is a big snow!  *(Stop snickering Bill Pekala!)  Snow and bad weather is all relative!  In Minnesota this would be called a break in the weather!

 

So I’m setting up office in my room here for a few days.   I have some things I wanted to share so here goes:

 

(1)  You asked for it and it’s coming.  The Fuji X-System Guide Part II is on the way.  I will go deeply into the Firmware updates for the X-T1 and X-E2.  I have a lot of new info about how to do hassle free HDR bracketing.  I have ton of new tips about getting the most of the X-T1.  I also want to do a full test of the new and very spectacular 50-140 f 2.8 zoom and info on upcoming products from Fuji.  Hope to have that out in the next few weeks!  Since it is a major update it will be value priced at $4.95!

 

(2)  A future His Light Tour!  I’m scouting Route 66 and hope to offer a tour of the section between Albuquerque and Las Vegas to include  day in Nelson Ghost Town! This section of the Mother Road is filled with great photo pops and I think it would be a great week long tour.  I will post images in March when I scout the area, stay tuned, but my bet is it will be on the 2016 schedule!

 

(3)  A reminder that we still have openings in two upcoming workshops.  March 20-21, Jack and I still have a few openings for Nelson Ghost Town just outside of Las Vegas Nevada.  this is Americana treasure trove!  Contact Jack at:    jackgrahamphoto.com     His Light’s April 8-12 Workshop at Memory Lane in Rogersville, Tennessee (near Kingsport) is a trip back to the fifties in a killer re-bult town.  Finally Fred Sisson and I will hold a Americana workshop in Roanoke, Virgina April 29 to May 3rd.  We will visit the amazing Winston O. Link Museum the legendary train photographer of the 1960’s, we will visit and and photograph the Transportation Museum of Virginia and shoot countless great Americana subjects in  Old Roanoke!    And Jack and I w ill return to Grandfather Mountain and the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains in Spring, May 27-31.  This is one of my favorite locations in the east, consider joining us!

 

(4)  Will Canon’s current lenses support 50 mega pixels?  When Nikon released the 36 mega pixel D800 back when I worked for Nikon, a number of lens updates came along with the new camera.  I am sure that Nikon knew that the lenses for the D800 had to b able to keep up with that resolution.  I am wondering out loud how Canon plans to deal with tis dilemma.  It is an optical fact of life that the more resolution we attempt to use the more demanding it is on the glass.  I will be interested in seeing how this in handled.  As the new Canon is released, I imagine you will see more and more on this subject.

 

Well that covers it for now, be safe, and I hope you are warm wherever you are!!!!!

 

Blessings,

 

the pilgrim