Another great post at The Online Photographer — this time showing what photographers can learn from landscape painters. Worth a read for anyone interested more in form and composition than in megapixels or line pair resolution.
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Tensets
Mike Johnston over at The Online Photographer has a post up today about photography website design and the painful navigational hurdles that some photographers impose on their website visitors. He proposes the idea of “tensets” –selections of a photographer’s 10 (self-chosen) best and most representative images, displayed clearly on the “landing page” of his or…
Interesting links for a summers’ evening
Happy Canada Day, everyone. In the absence of any actual photography (I have some digital stuff in the pipeline, but sadly, have not taken out the Rolleiflex in several weeks) here are some interesting links that may of interest to my readers (are you out there?) Two-Bath Development: Exposure and Development Strategy for Scanning by…
“Popping” images with Unsharp Masking
Over at The Online Photographer (a site that has lately become regular reading for me) a recent post by Ctein linked back to an excellent summary of the benefits of using low-level, high-radius Unsharp Masking as a way to get images to “pop”. This is a technique that I use on almost every scanned image…
Dodging and burning
A recent post on Lifehacker discussed techniques for successful B&W digital photography. Many commenters argued about the benefits of shooting on overcast days and RAW vs. JPEG, but I tried to point out that the most memorable and interesting B&W images we see (fine art, portraiture, commercial photography, etc.) have had local contrast and density…
Resources for film scanning
As the years go by, good digital cameras are getting cheaper and cheaper, but dedicated film scanners are becoming more scarce. Konica-Minolta folded a few years back, leaving Nikon (and a few low-end manufacturers) as the only significant player in the dedicated film scanner business. At the same time, Epson keeps rolling out improved versions…
A couple of interesting threads, and a question
Here are a couple of interesting threads from around the Net — In the “of local interest” category, a Flickr discussion in the Toronto group looks at where to get medium-format film (with an emphasis on C-41) processed in Toronto these days. Some of the labs that used to be reliable no longer are, whereas…
Interesting threads from the photo forum world
Here are a couple of interesting threads from the forums — one very general, one very technical. On Photo.net, Rebecca asks the community what advice they wish they had when they started out in photography. A lot of insightful replies, most of which I agree with. (I added my $0.02 as well!) On HybridPhoto.com, Keith…
Film is not dead, it just smells funny
I’ve been having a great time looking through the group photoblog at www.smellsfunny.net. There’s a lot of high-quality work there — plus other stuff that I’m not as fond of — all shot on film, and all thought-provoking. There’s a moderated Flickr group that goes along with it. Worth a daily visit, for sure.
Keeping It Affordable
An interesting thread at Flickr outlines a whole bunch of ways to do film photography on the cheap, especially for Americans. I had an article on a similar topic on an older version of this site, but the information in the Flickr thread is more up-to-date. Definitely worth a visit.