During the late 1960s I took pictures of Can-Am and USRRC races for a magazine called Competition Press and Autoweek. I had lots of images of famous drivers like Dan Gurney, Bruce McLaren, Dennis Hulme, Jim Hall, Parnelli Jones, Mark Donohue, etc. During one of my moves in the 1970s almost all the negatives got… [Read More]
Fujifilm GFX 100S II summary
I’m not sure that further time spent with this camera is going to teach me much. I have the GFX 100 II, and the comparison to the S version is pretty simple: Fixed EVF on the S version, so the tilting EVF adapter can’t be used S version EVF is lower resolution, but that doesn’t… [Read More]
Good Enough
As I was driving this morning, Molly Tuttle’s Good Enough – a plea to avoid perfectionism – came on the radio. It got me thinking about art and the possibly misplaced search for perfection. As a design engineer, I found the concept of good enough to be ever-present. The design constraints always meant that the… [Read More]
Direct feedback and learning
I was having a conversation on-line today about workshops. I was extolling their virtues for improving your photography, and the other person wasn’t buying it. They said that because of the instant feedback that modern digital cameras provide, you could be your own teacher at least as effectively as learning from someone else. We debated,… [Read More]
Your photograph looks like a painting?
Almost every time I have an exhibition, people take me aside and tell me how much one or more images look like paintings. From their tone of voice, they consider that to be a compliment. In the past, I’ve asked them why that thought that, and not received answers that I could truly understand. Now,… [Read More]
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