Rodney Boles Photography

NYC Street Photography with my X-Pro1

Rodney Boles — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:29:25 +0000

Had an amazing few days walking around Manhattan with my Fujifilm X-Pro1 at the end of last week. Took along my 18-55mm zoom, 35mm f/1.4 lens and an old Nikon 50mm f/1.4D (using an adapter). On some days I also brought along an old medium format Yashicamat 124G TLR to shoot some film, but [...]

South of the Border

Rodney Boles — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 04:17:50 +0000

South of the Border is an ultra-cheesy “attraction” along I-95 right on the South Carolina side of the SC/NC border. If you’ve travelled up and down I-95 over the years, you really can’t miss it or the billboards that announce that it is coming for at least a hundred miles in either direction. The old, [...]

Disney World with the Fuji X-Pro1

Rodney Boles — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 22:40:03 +0000

After years of hauling a heavy camera and a bag of heavy glass with me on vacations, I went to Disney a couple of weeks ago and left the DSLR at home. I brought my small, mirrorless Fuji X-Pro1, and borrowed a Fuji 18-55mm f/2.8-4 OIS zoom lens from a friend who has an X-E1. This [...]

Frozone

Rodney Boles — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:43:51 +0000

Adding this as it’s own blog entry, just to get the entire sequence in one place. These were taken in 4 minute span during one of the Disney’s Magic Kingdom parades. Frozone, from Pixar’s The Incredibles, and my son, Connor, interacting. It was maybe the highlight of the whole trip for my son. All of [...]

Jekyll

Rodney Boles — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:19:57 +0000

Jekyll Island was my home away from home growing up. My grandparents had fallen in love with the island and had started vacationing there a long time ago, and eventually bought a vacation home there. My own travels to the island started when I was maybe 7 or 8, camping in a pop-up camper, [...]

Hippychick (with Andy Sue)

Rodney Boles — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 14:21:27 +0000

I had a great shoot with local model/photographer Andy Sue back in mid-February on a beautiful day here in NC. I’m still waiting for some of the medium format shots to come back from the lab, but shown here are some polaroids and some of the digital shots (with both the Nikon D700 and the [...]

Death Valley Clouds (Series)

Rodney Boles — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:01:41 +0000

I made a New Year’s Resolution to blog more often. I thought this would be a good, quick item to blog about. I often go through my archives of photos (using Adobe Lightroom), looking for lost gems, or just looking for something that might inspire me in a new way. In this case, I found [...]

Polaroid fun

Rodney Boles — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:26:42 +0000

Just over a year ago, I decided to get an old Polaroid camera (in this case, an SX-70) and start experimenting with some of the Impossible Project film that was being manufactured to work in the old Polaroid cameras (Polaroid themselves had quit making film). Over the next few months, I also came to possess two [...]

Spiro

Rodney Boles — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 04:30:11 +0000

I had a great shoot recently with Spiro over at an old farm not too far from my house. I still have a bit of medium format film to develop from this shoot, so hopefully will have another gem or two. The shots here are all digital, with the one obvious exception (a Polaroid). Most [...]

Fuji X-Pro1 Six Week Update

Rodney Boles — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:25:05 +0000

I had a LOT of traffic to my blog entry about my Fujifilm X-Pro1 First Impressions. It seems that there is a ton of interest in the Fuji cameras, which is a good thing. There should be. I thought I’d offer an update now that I’ve had the camera for 6 weeks. Since the earlier [...]