the last word

I talked to Eric the other day about the wall labels for the Hartnell exhibition. He said he’d be happy to format and print the labels; all he needed from me was a Word file with the titles and dates. Since the titles of the images were already entered as metadata in the image files,… [Read More]

Within a few months of starting to use Lightroom, I was using it for all my printing. The Hartnell show is no exception. Printing from Lightroom has many advantages over printing directly from Photoshop. Parametrically specifying the margins means you can print a whole series of images without worrying about the detailed layout of each… [Read More]

The standard typewriter keyboard was designed in the 1870s to minimize jams. The key layout had the unfortunate side effect of slowing down typists compared to alternative schemes. None of the alternative layouts are popular today, in spite of their demonstrated advantages to a typist trained in their use. The reason? People have gotten used… [Read More]

Before Eric picked out the work for the Hartnell exhibition, he had to know about how many prints he could get on the wall. To figure that out, he asked me how big the matted prints would be. I told him that I usually print these images on 17×22 paper with 1 inch margins. With… [Read More]

Since I’m going to be spending the next few weeks getting ready for the Hartnell exhibition, I thought I’d give you all a blow by blow account, like I did last year for PhotoLucida. First, let’s put this exhibition in perspective with respect to the amount of work the artist does. There are shows in… [Read More]