If you only read one post on the new tone controls in Lightroom 4, make it this one. Charlie Cramer has brought his artist’s sensibilities and extensive practical experience to the party, and he’s gone the extra mile and included screen shots of what happens when you  apply various controls to photographs of step wedges. It’s… [Read More]

This is a continuation of a previous post that dealt with an article in the March/April 2012 issue of photo technique entitled “Mastering the Camera Histogram for Better Exposure”. The context of the article is how to obtain the best exposure of a raw file. In a section of the article headed “Histogram Math” Wells… [Read More]

Since I’ve been doing the slit scan photographs, I’ve been spending a lot more time using my tripods. Since I now use a tripod four or five times a day, I’m having more problems with various bits loosening up and occasionally falling off. There’s a way to deal with most of these problems: compounds that… [Read More]

There’s an article in the March/April 2012 issue of photo technique entitled “Mastering the Camera Histogram for Better Exposure”. The article contains some important misstatements. I’m not sure how they got by the magazine’s vetting process, but, if they gain currency by inheriting the stature of the magazine in which they are published, they may… [Read More]