January 26, 2005

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Echo silenced

January 26, 2005 in Uncategorized by Alex | No comments

The Echo Lounge one of Atlanta’s coolest music venues has recently closed. They were rumors going around for awhile and were proven to be true on January 8th. I always liked seeing shows at the Echo. The sound was always good and they had tons of cool acts there. The low lighting made it hard to take pictures but that’s pretty much every venue. My only gripes were the nonfunctional taps and it wasn’t fun to hangout there but you just went for the music anyway. Hopefully someone will buy it and keep it going, not because I live right up the street from there but that doesn’t hurt.

Here is a Creative Loafing article with more info. Last call for the Echo Lounge

Here are a couple shows I shot at the Echo. Japancakes Cadillac Jones

Macroscopic eye

January 26, 2005 in Uncategorized by Alex | No comments

Received this lens today. I wanted a portrait lens so I was looking at the 85mm f1.4 but since I shoot mostly digital and there is a 1.5 multiplier on my camera it would make the 85 an effective 127.5mm which is a little long for portrait work. So I went with the 60mm (90mm effective) f2.8 macro lens. I have been wanting a macro lens for a few years now so this is a good way to kill two birds with one stone (who kills birds with a stone anyway). Some people say the lens is to sharp for portrait work, however I shoot with sharpening turned off so I don’t think it will be an issue.

While I’m on the subject why do they call the lenses macro (Nikon calls them micro)? Micro would be a more accurate description. Is it because macro sounds cooler? The first company to make them mislabeled them and it stuck? Maybe because they make small objects appear larger? Maybe the world will never know…. (The rest of the world probably doesn’t care anyway)

Here is a good article on macro photography by Philip Greenspun for the interested. Macro Photography

Look for some macro and portrait shots coming soon.

60mm Macroscopic eye

Update: Check out this quote from the aforementioned article: “I have a 1.5 inch long penis; I think I will buy a big SLR like a pro. But I don’t want to spend money on frills like lenses so I’ll get a Tokina zoom.”

Probably only funny to photo geeks, it’s an overcompensation reference.

Honey