I’ve received a few messages asking why I haven’t posted in a while and am I all right? I am fine, but have had a scare, as you’ll see if you read on. My rate of posting slowed down at about the time the Covid-19 epidemic started to hit the US hard. That was driven… [Read More]
Sharpness is overrated
From a recent DPR post: I view every GFX file at 1:1 and if it is not sharp, it gets instantly deleted. Fealty to the God of Sharpness is getting out of hand. Not that there’s anything wrong with a sharp image, if sharpness is what’s needed to make the image a success. But sharpness… [Read More]
Photography and trade-offs
Some time ago, looking for a way that math-averse photographers can figure out what focus-bracketing step size to use with the GFX 100, I posted this. Yesterday, I received a question from a reader: … I’m a bit flummoxed by your asking “how much out of focus is acceptable” re the star target images. My… [Read More]
Picking a camera is like picking a dog?
On one of the DPR fora, a photographer was saying that amatuers should pick their cameras for their ergonomics, since all of today’s cameras are capable of making great images. He compared buying a camera to going to the shelter to choose a dog, and said you need to get the one that speaks to… [Read More]
Dancing flowers and grasses
A few weeks ago, I showed you some images I’ve been making in my studio by shining light through a Japanese bamboo sculpture. Last summer, I had been creating some heavily manipulated images by writing computer programs to perform distortion and fusing of conventional still photographs. I set that aside when I got involved with… [Read More]
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