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Some event photography

September 1, 2016 JimK 5 Comments

I recently spent a week in Virginia attending two weddings. I packed for the trip knowing that I would photograph at each, but assuming that I wouldn’t be the official photographer. The role of the official wedding photographer is one that fills me with anxiety. There are so many ways to screw it up. Forgetting… [Read More]

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Pixel peeping — useful tool or obsession?

August 28, 2016 JimK 15 Comments

Thanks to the viewing options available in today’s image editors, it’s easy to view images at extremely high magnification. Many people do that, just because they can. I ‘ve found, in my own work as well as others, that it can cause as many problems as it solves.  For example, many people photograph flat detailed… [Read More]

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A book report — on the press

August 26, 2016 JimK Leave a Comment

This is part of a series about my experiences in publishing a book.The series starts here. Hemlock printed the book last week, in one long day. Not wanting to stop the press after they got things dialed in, they ran it from morning until midnight. I couldn’t be there because I was attending two weddings… [Read More]

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A book report — printing scheduled

August 13, 2016 JimK 1 Comment

This is part of a series about my experiences in publishing a book.The series starts here. It’s been a long time between posts here.. So long, in fact, that I’ve begun receiving mail asking it I’m OK. I am indeed. However, I’ve been occupied. Many of you know that there’s been a large forest fire… [Read More]

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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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  • How to…
    • Backing up photographic images
    • How to change email providers
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  • 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
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      • 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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