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]
Two digital camera color fallacies
Recently I’ve seen two kinds of posts that share the same fundamental flaw. This is not the first time I’ve seen either of these mental errors in action, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. I’ve had a hard time getting some of the people making the errors to see what’s wrong with their… [Read More]
Chronography video up
I was supposed to give a lecture on the Chronography exhibition that I think is still hanging at the Monterey Museum of Art, but Covid-19 intervened and I had to cancel it. As s sort of substitute, I took my PowerPoint slides and narrated about what I would have said into Adobe Audition, then put… [Read More]