June 2006
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Signing prints
A fellow photographer and I had an interesting discussion about signing prints this week. In doing a little research on the subject, it seems like “anything goes” when it comes to that subject. If there’s a commonly accepted set of rules out there, not many people seem to be following them.As for me, I [...]
Adobe now at 490 lbs.
Adobe just announced it bought out Pixmantec, the creators of raw file conversion software RawShooter Premium and the free RawShooter Essentials. I’ve been using RSE for about a year now, and I love it’s workflow, much better than ACR-Bridge-Photoshop at work and another planet better than Elements’ brutally clunky raw workflow.
Where this really puts the [...]
Heat equals good pictures?
Had a shoot yesterday and it was blisteringly hot here in south Alabama – 98 degrees. Combine that with a solid shot of humidity and we were all seeking the shade and the bottled water.Despite the weather, it was a very productive shoot for me. Got this terrific shot of this Alocasia (Elephant Ear) while [...]
So simple it’s hard
I’ve been trying out Adobe’s Photoshop Elements. For someone who’s worked with the full version of the program for about six years at work, Elements is like a foreign land. The darn thing tries so hard to make things easy for Joe Blow user, I’m finding it very difficult to work through all the steps.I [...]
OT: Those Vegas commercials
Off-Topic Alert:
I’m giving myself permission to go a little off-topic every now and then.
I liked the first series of Las Vegas Commercials. They were fun. But this second series I’ve seen is even better.Mr. and Mrs. White bread middle America secretly become freaks during their Vegas vacation, but have to keep it under wraps [...]
On Photoshop
In an earlier post, I made a point to mention that I didn’t use image-editing programs to significantly alter my abstracts (with one exception), beyond what might normally be done in a wet darkroom, i.e. a slight exposure adjustment or sharpening, etc.
It’s not that I have anything against image-editing programs like photoshop and the people [...]
Just when you think you’re out…
I swore off event photography (birthdays, dances, etc.) about the same time I swore off weddings nearly three years ago.
Yet in the span of two weeks I’ve agreed to shoot two events. I hope I’m not making the same mistakes again.
It reminds me that I need to work on the FAQ at my web site. [...]
There’s abstract and then there’s abstract
I enjoy shooting abstracts. In my web site gallery, there’s only one shot that I really, what you would call, manipulated to produce a certain effect I wanted. Everything else was in camera, any post production was no more than what someone could achieve in the traditional darkroom.
But it seems to me there’s a double-standard. [...]
Would you pay $2.25 million for this?
Alternately, this could be titled: Size Matters.This print, entitled 99 cent by Andreas Gursky sold at auction last week for $2.25 million. It is 11 feet wide.There’s actually a lot I like about this image. I don’t have 2.25 million reasons to love it, however.Feel free to opine.
You can find a larger version of this [...]
Technical quality isn’t everything
While my philosphy is subject to change, I currently feel that emotion or intellectual content/response is of high value in any image, not just photography.
But I’ve also come to believe that most landscape work really lives or dies on technical quality. Maybe that explains why so many landscape guys shoot large format or maybe why [...]