It’s always nice when you can try out gear before you buy it! A friend at work purhased this lens, and doesn’t have a camera body to use it on yet (his 5D MII is on the way…) so he lent me this nice prime lens for the weekend. I have the much cheaper 50mm […]
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Some of my favorite shots…
Why not share some of my favorite shots? Here, you’ll see random images that I like 🙂
Playing around with the Canon 70-200mm f2.8L IS USM on my 7D
Well, for a long time I’ve wondered what it’s like to use the Canon 70-200mm f2.8L IS USM, which seems to be the perfect lens for quite a few applications such as sports photography, wildlife shots, and covering low-light indoor events from a distance. It turns out a fellow Microsoft co-worker named “Gavin Gee” (we’ve […]
Interview lighting test – Gary Erickson – 05/04/2010
The second in a series of tests in preparation for a series of interviews that I’ll be working on filming for my church. In the last test, I was working with some cobbled together hot lights (shop lights with home-made barn doors, diffusers, etc). I determined that I needed “real” lights, so I picked up a […]
Canon EOS 7D with retro Nikon 50mm f1.4 prime lens
Well, I’ll have to say that I just love “retro” stuff. We live in a house that was built in 1960, and I just love the old stuff that has survived the years that we got with the house, or srounged off ebay/craigslist in order to set the proper “mod” tone. Well, in terms of […]
Hello there…
Well hello there, I just “formatted” www.gavingear.com and have started from scratch with WordPress. On this site, I’ll post information about my family, church, and hobbies, trips, tips, rants, and anything else that comes to mind. Thanks, Gavin