John Fogarty, in a recent issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine, tells of something he’s read that he’s tried to honor in his songwriting. I think there’s a message for photographers here as well. …when you’re working on a song and it’s not right… a bell will ring in your head. The little bell is telling… [Read More]

I once made a financial presentation to a nonprofit board. Afterwards, someone congratulated me on understanding the financial position of the institution so well. I told her that I hoped that now she did, too. She said, “Oh, no, I’m not a numbers person.” I told her that I understood that it was difficult to look… [Read More]

…this one: That was a surprise to me. Although visually striking, it has the second least intellectual content of the six, and, for me, bears repeated viewings only fairly well. I like it, of course, or I wouldn’t have submitted it, but it’s not my favorite. However, there’s one element that I just love about… [Read More]

I’m wrapping up my work on spatial frequency analysis of read noise, and in this post, I’ll summarize what I’ve found and provide links to posts with the details. In all the cameras that I tested: Nikon D810 Nikon D800E Nikon D4 Leica M9 Leica M240 Hasselblad H2D-39 Sony alpha 7S The spatial spectrum of… [Read More]