You talk to many who consider themselves serious photographers – not the commercial ones – and bring up flash photography. The noses turn up. Distain drips from their responses. Using flash is something one might do in private for utilitarian purposes, but it’s not a way to make important photographs. This attitude has percolated from… [Read More]
Archives for May 2015
Synching up
Back in the late 1980s my wife asked me what all those noises that came from a modem at the beginning of an on-line session were. I told her that the modem on her desk was negotiating with the modem at the other end to find out what each was capable of, so that they… [Read More]
Modeling camera motion
I’m going to take a little break from the ongoing monolog about book publishing. I’ve got a lot of work to do deciding which images need intervention in remapping to the GRACoL gamut, and performing that remapping, and describing what I’m doing would not generalize to other people’s book projects, so I won’t be posting… [Read More]
A book report: proof sheets
This is post ten in a series about my experiences in publishing a book. The series starts here. Before I obsess too much over mapping the gamut of the Staccato images to Coated GRACoL 2006, I needed to get an idea of how much trouble I was in. It’s one thing to look at the… [Read More]
A book report: gamut mapping example
This is post nine in a series about my experiences in publishing a book. The series starts here. Let’s look at one of the images that has a large amount of important content outside the Coated GRACoL 2006 gamut: This is in ProPhoto RGB. Since it was created in Lr, it is entirely within the… [Read More]