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Ilford Galerie Gold Fibre Silk Inkjet Paper — Audiocast

Please click on the audio link below to hear our extended conversation and review by Arthur Schwartz of Tucson, Arizona, USA. ilford_galerie_new_inkjet_papers_discussion.mp3   Ilford product page link Costco Kirkland photo paper link Center for Creative [...]

No water! No Starbucks! No you! No pretty pictures!

"I wish I had gotten into the environmental work earlier because I think that's a citizen's fundamental responsibility. The channeling of creative arts in that direction has been very difficult. As I said, I never made a picture with a direct environmental [...]

Seeing in HDR

  © John Neel In terms of this article, visualization is a means of creating a mental image of something. Pre-visualization is a means to see the final photograph in your "minds eye" at the time of capture. I have been doing High dynamic range [...]

ANSEL ADAMS-THE LAST INTERVIEW

ANSEL ADAMS-THE LAST INTERVIEW "I wish I had gotten into the environmental work earlier because I think that's a citizen's fundamental responsibility. The channeling of creative arts in that direction has been very difficult. As I said, I never made a picture [...]

Wise Guys

The following are some interesting photography quotes from some of my favorite photographers. Think about what they are saying. They are revealing as to what photography should be for us all. THIS POSTING AS WELL AS ANY OR ALL PHOTOGRAPHS AND GALLERY IMAGES [...]

HDR - V -The Zone System - Part 2

…Continued from Part 1 Note: Please go back to Part 1 if you haven't read it. It wil be easier to understand this post. The following is one of many important concepts to understand regarding the Zone System. Generally, a meter reading is taken of a [...]

HDR - V -The Zone System - Part 1

Both High Dynamic Range digital photography and the Zone System which is used in film photography, attempt to create an expanded tonal scale. By expanded tonal scale, I mean that both processes attempt to capture as much detail as possibles from both extremes [...]

Would Ansel use HDR?

The great photographer, Ansel Adams may have liked the idea of HDR. After all, he invented a method of expanding tonal scale. His zone system was his formula and a gift to us, for achieving detail in both the highlights and the deep shadows. The most [...]

My Own Favorite Photography Quotes With Example Photos

Why Photographers Like to Travel

 Why do photographers love to travel so much? Well the main reason is that we’re visually sensitive and we love the visual stimuli we get when we go to new and different places. I find I “see” more when I’m in new surroundings. [...]

What Makes the Perfect Exposure?

With today’s modern equipment in our hands, the question of what makes a perfect exposure still abounds and the answer remains the same in the digital age as it did in the film days.  During my career, I always used hand held meters, but I have to [...]

Light and Land, an eBook for a better vision

Light and Land, Landscapes in the Digital Darkroom by Michael Frye is a new eBook that starts by reminding us of the words of Ansel Adams about the "score" and the "performance." Michael Frye lives at the doorstep of Yosemite National Park, so he is inspired [...]

Make Your Photos More Dimensional Right Now

There is an old technique that can quickly take your images up a notch, edge burning. Ansel Adams talked about this quite a lot in his classic book, The Print (which is still in print and a superb book for photographers working with Lightroom and Photoshop -- [...]

Is This the Sexiest Flower?

Flora Photographica: Masterpieces of Flower Photography from 1835 to the Present (Thames & Hudson 1991) is a book I refer to repeatedly when teaching. This hefty volume embraces both artistic and scientific approaches to flower photography – from [...]

SOLD! Eastman House Auction Raises Funds for a Good Cause

The world's oldest photography museum is in the middle of one of the biggest photo auctions in recent history. The George Eastman House has spent the last two years gathering more than 300 donated items that are expected to rake in upward of one million [...]