Since I’ve been doing the slit scan photographs, I’ve been spending a lot more time using my tripods. Since I now use a tripod four or five times a day, I’m having more problems with various bits loosening up and occasionally falling off. There’s a way to deal with most of these problems: compounds that… [Read More]

There’s an article in the March/April 2012 issue of photo technique entitled “Mastering the Camera Histogram for Better Exposure”. The article contains some important misstatements. I’m not sure how they got by the magazine’s vetting process, but, if they gain currency by inheriting the stature of the magazine in which they are published, they may… [Read More]

Friday night, I told David Bayles that I was working on photography about four hours a day, and that seemed to be the right amount of time for me. We got into a discussion of the work ethic of some photographers. David said that Brett Weston immediately processed his film upon returning from a photographic… [Read More]