Jason Bradley penned this and sent it out in one of his newsletters. I liked it so much that I asked for his permission to show it to you all here as a guest post. Thanks, Jason, and take it away Here we are, well into the new year and with a good head start… [Read More]

A friend of mine is fond of saying: “If you buy a violin, you own a violin; if you buy a camera, you are a photographer.” Hold that thought. I’ve been thinking recently about why so many people seem to talk past each other on photography boards and have decided that a part of the… [Read More]

Most serious photographers, engineers, and scientists know about the inverse-square relationship of light intensity versus distance from a point source. Double the distance, and you get a quarter of the photon flux that passes through a given plane area normal to the direction of the light. Most engineers and scientists — but surprisingly, not most… [Read More]

In a recent Internet exchange, I was accused of not understanding my audience, of not “getting it”. That stung a bit. But I spent some time contemplating. And, I’ve come to a conclusion. Guilty as charged. Photography to me is about communication, and I don’t understand the mentality of people who spend untold hours of… [Read More]