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]

A few weeks ago, someone remarked in the negative about the shortage of CPA workshops centered on developing artistic abilities. (Note to self: maybe there should be a future blog post analyzing why the people who help the most complain the least, and the people who stand on the sidelines complain the most.) I noted… [Read More]

In my last post, I talked about some really bad lighting in a couple of movies from the 60s. Lighting has improved a lot since then, but there’s one place where, even today, almost nobody gets it right. Picture a scene. The hero and heroine are sitting by a window. He’s telling her some terrible… [Read More]