I’ve been posting about some of the bad things about today’s digital photography universe for the last few days. Today, I’m gonna change gears and talk about some of the things I love about it. Productivity. A lot of chemical photography was difficult, uncreative, time-consuming work. Let’s say you wanted a print of something that… [Read More]

I used to write end-pieces for the CPA newsletter, Focus.  Those were called “The Last Word”, because they were the last thing in the newsletter. Eventually, when I stopped editing the newsletter, the archives from Focus formed the first posts in this blog. One of the very first ones was about overemphasis of craft.  Today’s post… [Read More]

What a set of changes has happened since, say, 1990! In 25-or-so years, we have gotten to a point where: Most first-world folks carry a camera with them at all times. The marginal cost of making an image is zero. The number of images exposed has skyrocketed. The quality of many of the ubiquitous cell-phone… [Read More]

When we worked in the darkroom, the tools we had for image manipulation were pretty crude by today’s standards. With silver-based B&W, we could crop, change size, lighten, darken, change contrast, dodge, burn, bleach (like dodging, but affecting only the lighter areas). Sharpening required pin-registered printing setups and fiddly mask-making; most of us didn’t bother…. [Read More]