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Is digital photography a left-brain pursuit? — part 3

November 12, 2011 JimK Leave a Comment

We move on to another historically important art photography capture genre, cameras that are used when maximum quality is desired, and size, weight, convenience, and speed of operation are all much less important. In the film world, this usually means a view camera using sheet film of 4 x 5 or larger. It’s hard to… [Read More]

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Is digital photography a left-brain pursuit? — part 2

November 11, 2011 JimK Leave a Comment

In the previous post, I compared the experience of capturing images using professional-level 35mm single lens reflexes both with film and digitally. I’d like to move on to other cameras with historically large roles in art photography. Next up is the 35mm rangefinder camera. In the film world, if we restrict ourselves to cameras currently… [Read More]

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Is digital photography a left brain pursuit?

November 10, 2011 JimK Leave a Comment

Over the weekend, I attended a CPA members’ workshop. In one of the plenary sessions, someone said that digital photography and conventional chemical photography were qualitatively different in that the former was a left brain activity, and the latter used the right brain. While I thought it was a novel idea, I was at the… [Read More]

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Dr. Pratt’s developer

November 8, 2011 JimK Leave a Comment

In a previous post – you can see it here – I mentioned Dr. Pratt’s developer in passing. A web search for it yields no results. I’d like to give the formula and instructions for its use here, so that it becomes part of the collective cyber-consciousness. Dr. Pratt’s developer is a two-solution paper developer… [Read More]

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Upgrading to iOS 5 on an iPad

November 7, 2011 JimK Leave a Comment

Upgraded iTunes to 10.5.0.142. Plugged in the iPad running iOS 4.3.3. Started iTunes. Tried to perform a backup. Hung. Tried to quit. No dice. Forced iTunes shutdown with Task Manager. Disconnected iPad. Performed soft reset on iPad. Reconnected iPad. Started iTunes. Tried to sync apps. Error message. Retried backup. Error message. Disconnected iPad.  Hard reset… [Read More]

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