Welcome to TZPlanet.com – digital photography explored

My name is Antonio Marques. In this site I intend to share with you all my path through photography, teaching and learning all the way. From photography techniques (with special focus on digital photography) to printing, with all the processes in between, I hope to provide some enlightened discussions, of course, always with your help.

For a bit of history, I’ll let you know that photography was a big passion of mine some years ago. But, alas, time and work made a dent and this passion, like any other which is not fed, started to fade until it was almost gone. But this pilot flame never went out and now, time is even less and work is even more, but I rediscovered it and the commitment with this site is just another way of feeding this flame and letting it burn as much as it will. I hope you are on that side of your screen looking at it and thinking that it’s worth it… but in the end I guess it’s my call to make that decision.

Why such a weird name for a photography blog? It didn’t actually begin as a photography blog but with time it ended up that way. And the name stuck… Call it personal preference.

If you like photography delivered in audio format, check PhotoNetCast. It’s a podcast where I, Brian Auer, Jim Goldstein and Martin Gommel discuss, well, photography.

 

…the Gear

Some of what I’m carrying around…

SONY α700 dSLR

SONY α100 dSLR

SIGMA 70-200mm f2.8 EX APO DG Macro HSM II

SIGMA 18-50mm f2.8 EX DC Macro

MINOLTA 50mm f1.7 Maxxum

SIGMA 105mm f2.8 EX DG

SONY AF 18-70mm f3.5-5.6

SIGMA AF 70-300mm f4-5.6 DG APO MACRO

HVL-F56AM Flash

Tripod NIKON HF-300V

TAMRAC Adventure Messenger 3 (red version)

LOWEPRO CompuRover AW

HERO Camera Bag

 

Older but still used

PENTAX MZ-3

PENTAX P30t

PENTAX-A MF 35-80mm f4-5.6

PENTAX-FA AF 28-80mm f3.5-5.6

SIGMA AF 100-300mm f4.5-6.7 Pentax Mount

LACOOR Camera Bag

 

Social Networks

These are some of the social networks where I’m most active.

(Twitter)

(StumbleUpon)