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Street photography strategies

July 29, 2016 JimK 2 Comments

This is a follow-on to my last post, which was about street photography: Technical aspects of street photography Today, I’ll talk about street photography at a higher level than the technical, but still not at the level of intent, vision, and aesthetics. There probably are more, but I’be employed the following broad strategies for street… [Read More]

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Technical aspects of street photography

July 22, 2016 JimK 3 Comments

I’ve been participating in a discussion about gear for street photography. My position has been, and is, that you can do street photography with just about any gear, though some kinds of street work favor some kinds of gear. The discussion has broadened a bit beyond the – for me, not particularly interesting – subject… [Read More]

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A book report — spot color proofing

July 21, 2016 JimK 4 Comments

This is part of a series about my experiences in publishing a book.The series starts here. In my last post, I reported on my worries that the captions and footers weren’t sufficiently legible in the Matchprint proofs. I finished reviewing the proofs, and dropped them by Jerry’s offices today. We talked about the captions. I… [Read More]

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A book report — Matchprints & mechanicals

July 17, 2016 JimK 1 Comment

This is part of a series about my experiences in publishing a book.The series starts here. I met with Jerry Takigawa yesterday, and he showed me several things that Hemlock had provided: A complete mechanical proof of the book, with low resolution and inaccurate color. A mechanical proof of the dust cover, showing how the… [Read More]

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Depth of Field summary — part 2

July 14, 2016 JimK 12 Comments

This is a continuation of a report on new ways to look at depth of field. The series starts here: A new way to look at depth of field The shape of the curves. Let’s take a closer look at the DOF curves for the simulated Otus lens focused at three meters that I showed… [Read More]

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  • About
    • Patents and papers about color
    • Who am I?
  • How to…
    • Backing up photographic images
    • How to change email providers
    • How to shoot slanted edge images for me
  • Lens screening testing
    • Equipment and Software
    • Examples
      • Bad and OK 200-600 at 600
      • Excellent 180-400 zoom
      • Fair 14-30mm zoom
      • Good 100-200 mm MF zoom
      • Good 100-400 zoom
      • Good 100mm lens on P1 P45+
      • Good 120mm MF lens
      • Good 18mm FF lens
      • Good 24-105 mm FF lens
      • Good 24-70 FF zoom
      • Good 35 mm FF lens
      • Good 35-70 MF lens
      • Good 60 mm lens on IQ3-100
      • Good 63 mm MF lens
      • Good 65 mm FF lens
      • Good 85 mm FF lens
      • Good and bad 25mm FF lenses
      • Good zoom at 24 mm
      • Marginal 18mm lens
      • Marginal 35mm FF lens
      • Mildly problematic 55 mm FF lens
      • OK 16-35mm zoom
      • OK 60mm lens on P1 P45+
      • OK Sony 600mm f/4
      • Pretty good 16-35 FF zoom
      • Pretty good 90mm FF lens
      • Problematic 400 mm FF lens
      • Tilted 20 mm f/1.8 FF lens
      • Tilted 30 mm MF lens
      • Tilted 50 mm FF lens
      • Two 15mm FF lenses
    • Found a problem – now what?
    • Goals for this test
    • Minimum target distances
      • MFT
      • APS-C
      • Full frame
      • Small medium format
    • Printable Siemens Star targets
    • Target size on sensor
      • MFT
      • APS-C
      • Full frame
      • Small medium format
    • Test instructions — postproduction
    • Test instructions — reading the images
    • Test instructions – capture
    • Theory of the test
    • What’s wrong with conventional lens screening?
  • Previsualization heresy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Recommended photographic web sites
  • Using in-camera histograms for ETTR
    • Acknowledgments
    • Why ETTR?
    • Normal in-camera histograms
    • Image processing for in-camera histograms
    • Making the in-camera histogram closely represent the raw histogram
    • Shortcuts to UniWB
    • Preparing for monitor-based UniWB
    • A one-step UniWB procedure
    • The math behind the one-step method
    • Iteration using Newton’s Method

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