sean{e}lavelle.com

Photography

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Photography is one of my passions. I want my photographs to envoke a sense of the places that I have seen to the viewer. Digital photography allows me to really deal with all aspects of the picture taking process. It also saves me alot of money. I would tend to shoot 20 rolls of film and between buying the film and developing it would cost almost as much as a decent digital camera.

My Gear

My gear consistes of:

Canon S2 IS with Lens adaptor Kit - I love this camera. Not quite as versitele as a DSLR, but with and integrated 12X optical zoom. With the lense adapter kit I can use my old filters. The only drawback is it is kind of big.
An A1 and Polarizing filter - Anytime I shoot in direct sunlight or there is alot of light bouncing around (water, sand, etc) a polarizing filter makes all the differnce. The A1 filter stays on the lense kit so the real lens does not get scratched.
Canon Powershot 900 - I have mixed feelings about this camera. I'm a big enough man to admit that I was won over by the massive pixel count, when I know better. As a point and shoot, it takes great pictures, but there aren't enough options to really let you play. Also, image stabalization would be great. The pictures taken at a high ISO tend to be grainy, but it is really small, light and durable.
A whole mess of 1gb SD Cards
A table top Tripod
A full size Tripod
Waterproof Housing for the 900

Software

All of my computers run Ubuntu Linux, but most of these programs have been ported over to Windows. For any heavy duty image manipulation, I use the gimp. Almost as good as Photoshop and free. I also have recently started using LightZone, which is a Adobe Lightroom replacement for managaing collections and batch processing of photos. My site here runs Coppermine for it's gallery with the Andreas-09 skin.