I am interested in doing some high-magnification macro photography, which is something I’ve never done before. I’ve never worked over 2:1, and I plan to explore the region between 3:1 and 10:1. To that end, I’ve purchased a Zeiss S Planar 50mm f/1.6 lens. That lens was designed to be used for semiconductor photolithography in… [Read More]

In economics, there’s a concept know as Gresham’s law. In shorthand form, it says “the bad money drives out the good.” In this case, bad money is defined as money whose perceived value is less than its face value. If there’s a lot of that kind of money around, it will circulate, and people will… [Read More]

Note: this post has been revised and corrected based on input from DPRevived and the PS&T forum on DPR. Thanks to all involved. Recently, I wrote two articles for Lensrentals on raw exposure. Part 1 Part 2 One of the takeaways from the articles was, with modern cameras, by far the biggest win associated with… [Read More]

About ten years ago, Jack Wasserbach showed me some graffiti-covered abandoned buildings at Fort Ord. I took pictures, but nothing grabbed me when I went over the images in Lightroom. Yesterday I got the idea of doing some composites.              

In the last post, I talked about specularity. If you haven’t read that post, it would enhance your understanding of this one if you took a look at it now. Although I mentioned the light source as a component of specularity, all the examples I posted related to changing the object in front of the… [Read More]