Photography | The World of Mr. Newit

Photos: Coming Home to Roost

March 7, 2010

Jimm's chickens! Take it all in, come see!

I have a new route for my ride home from work. It is really circuitous but it only adds about five minutes and it is absolutely gorgeous. So today I played around sticking the camera out the window to catch some of the light of the sun setting behind me. No children were run over [...]

Photos: Homesteading

February 17, 2010

I was afforded a few minutes Saturday to run around outside and take pictures. Surveying the ruins, as it were. The Cabana, sadly, is dead. This year we are going to have to extricate it from its current location and pawn it off on somebody else. It is actually still in fine shape if you [...]

TEST: High ISO Panasonic GF1 and Canon T1i

February 14, 2010

This test is a comparison of the noise level encountered when increasing the ISO settings of a Panasonic GF1 and a Canon Rebel T1i. I find the T1i's ISO performance acceptable for my night time, indoor uses. The much smaller sensored GF1 seems to lag behind. The purpose of this test is to see exactly [...]

Photos: The Temperature At Which Color Drains…

February 12, 2010

Black and white images are very interesting with certain subjects. It just so happens that snow and bleak skies can be one of those subjects. How convenient. I live someplace with bleak skies and have a new covering of snow. Sometimes I just feel blessed. Saturday the woman and I went to the book store and [...]

Overcast Fakeout

February 8, 2010

The weather this time of year is a bit flaky. One minute it is snowing and overcast and the next it is snowing and overcast. I mean, I think it does do other things than snow and the sky shows other things than overcast but I just cannot think of what that might be. So that [...]