Mark Hutchinson

early studio

2010-02-02T09:04:00.002-05:00

2009-10-19T16:37:00.000-04:00

Lens flare is a bitch!

on a lighter note, I bought nikons 35mm f/1.8 and I'm very happy with it. It's a heck of a lot sharper than the 35mm end of my mid-range zoom, and it's almost 3 stops faster!

I also go a lens hood for my 70-210.

2009-10-19T16:35:00.000-04:00

2009-08-15T12:36:00.001-04:00

2009-07-21T14:17:00.000-04:00

Grand rapids is cool. Nick's house is cool.

At top of the park with the dudes.

2009-07-20T21:56:00.001-04:00

Update!

2009-07-06T01:55:00.002-04:00

I'm a crazy person and might go to school for photography. I might throw every sort of 'plan to be financially stable' idea out of the window and just do what I know I love. I'll teach or something. Who the hell knows.

Anyway, the 70-210 should be back soon. Just got it repaired.

It's been a while, I know, but here;

2009-05-11T12:16:00.001-04:00

oh shit!

2009-05-07T17:30:00.001-04:00

my 70-210 f4 stopped working out of nowhere.

shit the bed.

now I have a $275 paperweight. Will have pictures from pennsylvania soon.

2009-04-30T00:11:00.002-04:00

rocks is the best I can do right now.

depth of field is hard to explain to friends. I always talk about everything about cameras when I'm around people.

god damn I love cameras

Dry spell!

2009-04-22T12:56:00.001-04:00

That means I've lost any sort of creative thought!

yaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

my buddy martin

2009-04-20T00:15:00.000-04:00

We all end up alone

2009-04-16T22:19:00.001-04:00

So I've been slacking.

2009-04-06T19:40:00.003-04:00

For some reason I just haven't been getting my camera out. I mostly do this blog so I can feel like I have something to do and something I should take pictures for.

and yet I still don't. I haven't been doing much of anything lately.

Library

2009-04-04T22:33:00.001-04:00

2009-04-01T19:46:00.002-04:00

I was trying to take some still life photos of my belly button lint collection but it's hard when you don't have lighting equipment. Desk-lights and such just aren't bright enough. Haha.

Yes, I have a collection of belly button lint.

Latest/first shoot with models

2009-03-30T12:50:00.002-04:00

This could be the start of something cool.

Been busy with school

2009-03-20T11:13:00.000-04:00

Since I've had projects and speeches and all that so much, I haven't been shooting as often. Thing have been going well, though, and I'm trying to decide which equipment to take backpacking. Weight is everything so I'm stuck between my heavy digital and batteries or a film slr and a bunch of film.

Chasing Chaos

2009-03-14T14:04:00.000-04:00

Stateside Address

2009-03-12T15:36:00.000-04:00

A few guys I know. They won Adrian High School's battle of the bands this year. Congrats, guys.

Cookies

2009-03-11T16:04:00.001-04:00

The girl scouts are currently selling cookies. I highly suggest everyone go out and buy some caramel delights and peanut butter patties this instant. They're a good investment.

Smart Sharpen

2009-03-09T12:54:00.000-04:00

Smart sharpen is saving me after a few burry concert pictures.

Thaannnnkkk you Adobe photoshop.

Possibly WCC next year?

2009-03-08T21:20:00.002-04:00

Didn't want to wait 'til I finished at siena to go to WCC so I'm going on Thursday to talk to them and I might be up there next fall.

Adrian High School Battle of The Bands was Friday night, so I'll have a couple things up from that soon. Still doing some clean-up and color correction in photoshop, then sharpening the pictures because my in camera noise reduction smeared over some details.

Spring break is over. I start classes again tomorrow, and I really would like to have a little more time off. At least the weather improved for a little while!

2009-03-05T13:47:00.000-05:00

2009-03-01T21:12:00.001-05:00

Finally recovering

2009-02-25T22:22:00.000-05:00

Well I've been sick for the past seven days, pretty much. It's starting to warm up outside so I'll be shooting more soon. I just need to beat this illness.

2009-02-24T21:19:00.001-05:00

I'm getting into photojournalism and news style stuff lately.

so I'm cranking the iso and shooting away

2009-02-20T21:09:00.000-05:00

uploading the mark schauer pictures

2009-02-20T20:44:00.001-05:00

Went to a city meeting tonight at Siena and congressman Schauer was there to talk with Adrian residents. Bringing the pictures up in photoshop now and I'll have a few up later.

My plans change all the time

2009-02-17T21:18:00.002-05:00

haha, college plans change every couple weeks, I swear.

I've decided on a sort of roundabout way to get my photography education but oh well. It'll just take a little longer, but I can do things on my own too. Education's education to me, and I love going to school.

Anyway, I'm going to stay at siena for english and go to washtenaw in summers for photo classes, then finish up the associates' at washtenaw after I graduate from siena.

Sounds like a plan. Ok! Go!

Borders

2009-02-13T10:10:00.003-05:00

beautiful weather

2009-02-11T13:42:00.002-05:00

It was so warm out yesterday. I couldn't stay inside. We have this weird blue raccoon thing in our front yard . I wish it'd stay so nice out.

Before my political sciences class

2009-02-09T22:24:00.002-05:00

in the parking lot of wendy's

2009-02-09T11:55:00.000-05:00

about to go eat lunch at the bridge because it's so nice out.

ther there are train cars up there. they've been there for the past couple days. I'm confused.

i'll take some pictures.

there's a truck driver sitting in his truck on his laptop just like me, and he has the same laptop.

2009-02-08T00:12:00.002-05:00

well taking pictures at the kid fusion at the church didn't go well and I kind of froze up. I don't know what did it but I came out with very few good pictures. I'll try it again some other time.

it's here

2009-02-05T13:36:00.001-05:00

Woot woot.

Nikkor 70-210 f4 came in the mail today.

check it out here

I'm pumped.

Nick Phan

2009-02-02T23:56:00.002-05:00

Wresting meet a while ago

2009-02-02T12:56:00.002-05:00

Man it's late

2009-02-01T23:58:00.003-05:00

Well it's not really that late but I'm mighty tired. Ordered an older Nikon AF 70-210 F4 today, looking forward to using it when it gets here. I was asked to take pictures at my girlfriend's church for the setup of a kid's thing they do. I don't go to church and it's not really my what I'm into but I think it'll be fun and I'll be able to spend some time with some cool people, plus maybe by then my longer lens will be here.

the only problem is shallow depth of field (the range of what's in focus in the picture) is my favorite way to shoot, and all the lenses with the capability (large aperture) are really out of my price range. Maybe if I get a job soon I can start to justify some of it.

I got a polaroid sx-70 to work, almost, but I need a neutral density filter to put on the end of it

2009-01-30T15:58:00.003-05:00

Well my Nikon EM has been broken for some time so I'm thinking about buying a used FE.

I also want a longer lens for sports and my brother's wrestling meets, along with for portraits and such.

and so begins my used equipment search.

2009-01-29T00:18:00.002-05:00

I want it to get warm out so I can try shooting some portraits with my friends.

That, and see how fast I can use manual focus lenses without the split prism.

(I'd rather use my 100 2.8 for portraits)

Polaroid's film is running out. They stopped making it in 2006. There should be enough to last through this year. It's a sad, sad time.

Nikon Film Vs. Canon Film

2009-01-26T16:14:00.000-05:00

I lean pretty heavily toward the old Nikons for a few differet reasons.

1. The aperture-priority nikons are a lot more comfortable to use than the shutter priority canons. This is basically between cameras like the FE by Nikon and the AE-1 by Canon. The aperture ring is so much easier to control and know what aperture you're on that trying to mess with the shutter speed dial on the top of the Canons.

2. Lenses: Any new or old nikon lens will work with any new or old Nikon, exept the pre-AI lenses. This overall compatability is great for building a camera system. Canon's lenses are great, but there's no good way to use an old FD lens on the new AF cameras.

3. That "A" lock on canon's lenses so the aperture is controlled from a different dial. It's a hassle trying to use the aperture ring for anything if it gets locked on that stupid "A".

One thing I do really like about an older Canon, though, is on the A-1. Instead of having the shutter speed dial on the top of the camera next to the trigger, it's set inside the camera body and a dial pokes out of the front of the camera. Sort of a predecessor to the front dial on SLR's of today. The A-1 is probably one of the only Canon Film MF SLR's I'd use because that front dial can also be set to aperture priority, which is mostly what I work in.

Also, the canon's have LCD displays for the meters inside the viewfinder. Much easier for working in low light. Nikon's needle that shows the selected shutter speed is invisible in the dark.

Different cameras, different tastes, I suppose.

2009-01-23T20:39:00.000-05:00

So the zoom lens I use has some pretty bad barrel distortion. Unfortunately, it's the only AF lens I have and the only one that works fully with my D300. Sure, I can use my MF lenses but there's no split prism in the viewfinder on the D300 to focus them. I have to settle for a little green dot in the corner to tell me when it's in focus. I just spent like ten minutes correcting the distortion on the picture on the previous post. It didn't look bad on the camera screen but it was a lot more noticeable on the monitor.

For anyone who doesn't know what barrel distortion is, here's a picture I got from DPreview.com

The old manual focus prime lenses have a lot less, actually, pretty much none, of that crap.

2009-01-23T20:32:00.000-05:00

Siena Heights' Maintenance Garage

2009-01-23T10:52:00.000-05:00

Watching bride of frankenstein in the horror films class in ten minutes. I'm not much of a horror film guy but this class is pretty cool. I've been walking around campus shooting some stuff I've wanted to for a while but just never did. I'll have a couple things up later.

In the meantime, here's a couple older things

2009-01-22T13:50:00.001-05:00

Website on hold

2009-01-22T13:36:00.000-05:00

Well since I don't have a job and all the free site hostings really are crap, website's on hold. I'm still building it in microsoft expression, I'll just finish it and then find where to host it.

Between classes

2009-01-21T10:14:00.001-05:00

Sitting in the classroom alone waiting for everyone to get here, slowly putting together things for my website. It's mighty cold out. Really wish I had payed attention more in high school web design class. Hah.

BLOG NUMBER ONE

2009-01-21T00:09:00.001-05:00

So here I go.

I'm currently trying to create a website for myself beyond a blog, so this is a placeholder until all that gets put up. I'm trying to get as much done as I can as I go to school. I'm a photographer and it's what I love to do. I'll have some pictures up here very soon. It's getting pretty late so I'll see you all tomorrow.