As I went through the box of prints that Eric Bosler selected for the Hartnell show, I put the image files into a Lightroom collection that I created for the exhibition. The sort order happened to be “Capture Time”, so it was easy to see whether the pictures were from the beginning, the middle, are… [Read More]
A fresh perspective
Hartnell College, in Salinas, has a large, airy gallery. About five years ago I had an exhibition of the farm workers series there. In December of last year I boxed up about 80 C-size loose prints from the Nighthawks series and gave them to Eric Bosler, who curated the earlier show. Although I had an… [Read More]
Celebrating the medium
People file out their negative holders so that the borders of the images show product codes, frame numbers, directional arrows, (even sprocket holes on 35mm film); the two little Hasselblad tick marks; and shadows of the hold-down strips on four by five film holders. People using Polaroid 55 P/N make sure that you can see… [Read More]
Computers: can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em
It’s been a big month for messing with computers, and writing about computers. I’m anxious to get back to photography, and I promise to do so in my next post, but today I’d like to ramble on a little bit about the relationship of a photographer to technology. Photography has always been a technologically intensive… [Read More]
New PC apps
In the last month, I’ve been testing new versions of my main Windows apps. I’ve been working with the shipping version of Office 2010, which will be released to the general public next week. I’ve also tested the Photoshop, InDesign, and Dreamweaver components of Adobe Creative Suite 5. And, for the last day, I’ve been… [Read More]