Spent the weekend in Durango, CO and while most of it ended up at the bottom of an Oktoberfest stein there was some fantastic color on display.   Before heading back to Zion Tonka and I snuck off to catch sunrise this morning on top of Coal Bank / Molas Pass.  The clouds that had [...]

There’s been a great deal of talk about the “best camera” being the one that’s with you.  By all accounts this is truth, but sometimes it’s best to have the best camera with you.  I dragged the 1dmk3 with a 50mm f/1.4 through a long afternoon of Oktoberfest consumption and am really glad I did.
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Summer is making it’s last gasps in the yard right now. I just love these uber grasses that are now “flowering” close to 8 feet high.

Perya (Town Fair) – a Canon 7D Short from Jason Magbanua on Vimeo.

Pure brilliance. It’s just sublime. Bravo.

Scouting the light and location of an upcoming shoot meant firing off some self portraits. Took a while to get the focus nailed down because of the very thin depth of field I was shooting (85mm @ f/1.6) and trying to stand in the spot you saw through the viewfinder is easier said than [...]

Been fighting off some flu bug and in hopes of not becoming a statistic of the h1n1 swine plague I’ve been trying to lay low around the house.  Doesn’t take long before I’m assembling gear and light rigs putting on a  strobe show for the neighbors.  I can only imagine what the house looks like [...]

Announced today, the Canon 7D  ( 7D review from Rob Galbraith) (Canon USA) seems to be showing the next evolution in Canon’s dSLR technology in a big way.  The new AF system is front and center here and def. has the hopes of Canon shooters running high that it’ll live up to it’s hype.  Especially [...]