In the previous post, I compared the experience of capturing images using professional-level 35mm single lens reflexes both with film and digitally. I’d like to move on to other cameras with historically large roles in art photography. Next up is the 35mm rangefinder camera. In the film world, if we restrict ourselves to cameras currently… [Read More]

Over the weekend, I attended a CPA members’ workshop. In one of the plenary sessions, someone said that digital photography and conventional chemical photography were qualitatively different in that the former was a left brain activity, and the latter used the right brain. While I thought it was a novel idea, I was at the… [Read More]

At the joint workshop with John Sexton, Ruth Bernhard gave the participants some advice — the same advice that she gave in the two previous workshops that I’d attended with her: Take photographs no more than 30 feet from your bed. It was not expressed as an exercise, but as a preferred way for an… [Read More]

While I was working on the last post, I went through my notes from many of the workshops that I’ve attended. I thought you might be interested in my notes from the workshop I did with Ruth Bernhard and John Sexton. I think many of the points they made are universal, important, and timeless. A… [Read More]