This year is the 50th anniversary of Arlo Guthrie’s song-cum-rap “Alice’s Restaurant“. In the song, Guthrie tells the story about how an arrest for littering made him ineligible for the draft. Toward the end, he calls for draft resistance movement based on his experience. As far as I know, it didn’t go anywhere despite the… [Read More]
Stitchery
From the mailbag: Hi Jim, I have been following your landscape photos and they are absolutely brilliant. I saw you mentioned something about stitching and was wondering if you could detail your method. Reason I am asking is that I am going to get rid of my A7r in preparation for the M2 and will… [Read More]
Practicing photography — motor skills
A few days ago, I posted a piece about deliberate practice. I asserted, but did not defend, the position that that technique can help your photography. Today I’d like to take on what I consider to be the easy part of the argument: that some of photography consists of motor skills, and, since deliberate practice… [Read More]
The story behind the picture
Yesterday I posted this picture: Today I’ll tell you a bit about how it was made, and see if that changes your assessment of it. I started out with this image: It is a seven-image composite. Here’s what the layers look like in Ps: Except for the number of composited images, this is not that… [Read More]
Look at this picture
Take a good look at the following picture and form an opinion about it. You can just remember what you thought of it, or you can comment on this post. Tomorrow I’m going to tell you some things about the image, and I’m interested in whether or not they change your opinion.
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