Steps of McCormick
As a cinematographer and director, I am commonly on shoots. Some of them are exciting, some of them are lucrative, and some of them are just to pay the bills. But no matter what should I go on, one of my favorite things is The photography I get while I'm on these shoots. Even the most boring shoot, I can find something exciting to photograph. It's not for the client, it's not for the producer, or for the project, these are photographs just for me.
When the iPhone came out, I was excited and saw some real potential. When the iPad came out, many wrote it off as a "giant iPod Touch." I wrote an article about how it would change my life and many others' lives and industries. I'm going on record that the Watch is going to do the same.
But this is my site devoted to photography and, as such, I'll narrow my focus and say that while the iPhone changed my photography (for the better) I'm looking forward to the potential of how the Apple Watch will change photography. There are some neat apps for controlling one's iPhone camera from the iPhone. I imagine the app could also be modifiedor someone could make an app to remotely control a DSLR, mirrorless or other camera too.
I think it will even go further than that but just for now, as of March 22, 2015, I'm making the call, again, on the future of this new device. The Apple Watch had some really amazing prospects in its future. I can't wait to see what we can do with it.
My Apple Watch of choice: Apple Watch Sport, 42mm, silver and white or, if I really spring for it, the Apple Watch, 42mm Space Black.
Winters in Chicago can be brutal. Actually, they are brutal. Sadly that keeps a lot of us inside including us photographers. But when the weather starts to get nice again, we come out to play.
It was a foggy morning on March 10. I decided to go out to the lakeshore which is an always changing landscape. There was still snow piled up along the shoreline. I really couldn't tell if I was walking on the beach or on a buildup of ice over the water.
The fog pretty much obstructed the view of anything within half a mile. Massive skyscrapers on the skyline that you can see from anywhere in the city were completely cloaked. It appeared like the shore of the beach of some pirate adventure movie. I would've expected haunted ship to sail out of the fog.
The only thing of color, however, was the water.
Lake Michigan has an aquamarine color to it. As the sun starts to warm up the water and the days become longer, March and April bring an even deeper richer color to the water.
It was the perfect day to take some photos of something few people get out to see because the weather was so miserable but the lakeshore was so haunting and beautiful.