A few days ago, I came home and turned on my iPod Touch to check email. It said it couldn’t connect to the Exchange server. I went to a computer running Outlook and tried to log on. No dice. I pulled up a remote console window to see what was going on with the Exchange… [Read More]
Playing photographer
There are many movies portraying professional photographers. The characters in the movies make their living taking pictures, and you would expect them to be skilled in the use of a camera. It would be nice if the actors appeared to be similarly adept; but that doesn’t often happen. Here’s my analysis of a few films…. [Read More]
Getting started in photography
Last summer, I joined the ImageMakers of Monterey. Part of the application procedure was a photographic autobiography. Some of you may be interested in the early part. In 1951 or 1952, when I was eight or nine, my parents bought me a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera. It took 12 2 1/4 square pictures on a… [Read More]
Soft proofing
Yesterday, I attended Charles Cramer’s excellent lecture at the Sunset Center. Charlie asked me to say a few words about soft proofing. Some things occurred to me that I would have said had I more time and presence of mind. Fortunately, I have this blog. Soft proofing is visualizing the final hard copy from an… [Read More]
The right camera for low-light photography
In most of the last half of the 20th century, the weapon of choice for low-light candid photography was the 35mm rangefinder camera. There were lots of reasons. The cameras were small and light. The focal-plane shutters were quieter than SLR shutters (except for the tiny number of SLRs with pellicle mirrors), and not much… [Read More]
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