Category Archives: Photography

Really good and lengthy article on camera filters. I’ve only read a bit of it but it’s enlightening. I have to disagree with his assertion that protective filters not be used. I agree that they degrade image quality somewhat but I’d rather have the security of that uv filter..

Here’s a good tutorial from Andy Williams on the STF. It’s illustrated by screenshots and looks like a good use of the clone tool, and cleanup using layers and other tools.
Good stuff!

Two articles on Luminous Landscape with photos taken in Spain:

• Minolta A2 on Location – A review of the Minolta A2. I was pleasantly surprised when I read the author’s comment on the EVF of the camera. Electronic viewfinders simply aren’t good enough to display a scene properly. After learning about histograms previously I put it to use a few days ago and it certainly makes a marked difference to the exposure of a photograph!
• The Seville Fair – Great photos and commentary. I want to go travelling again!

Purely by coincidence. the photo of the day is from one of the train stations in Madrid.

I haven’t tried The Rasterbator yet but to judge by the gallery it creates some great looking blow-ups! Here’s a short article and lots of comments (seems to be problems getting it to work unfortunately..)

I came across this photo of a bomb technician after listening to a radio interview with Graeme Goldsworthy, a deminer with International Demining Group so it gave me the creeps to think of the potentially dangerous scene the photographer captured!

Here’s a really good explanation of what RAW files are.
Now I wish my camera could take raw shots more than ever as it would be extraordinarily handy to be able to adjust the white balance, and other settings after the fact.
Of course, I think I’d be buying a new 120GB hardrive sooner rather than later perhaps.

It was two weeks after two jetliners had plowed into the towers of the World Trade Center. His good friend, photojournalist Bill Biggart’s body had been recovered from the rubble. His personal effects, including his cameras had been released by authorities to his widow, Wendy.
Some of his images are amazing and all the more real to me today as I spent a few days in New York last August.. He was really very close to the buildings.
(Via Ryan)

For those of you who think brand is more important than function, this Ferrari branded camera is just what you’ve been looking for!
In “stylish” Ferrari red with the same logo plastered all over it you can’t help but be noticed by fellow tourists and passers-by as you raise your camera to snap a few photos.. oooh! ahhh!

The May issue of the Digital Journalist is now available. Unfortunately they don’t have a direct link to that issue but delve into the archives for past articles.

Digital to Analog – an essay exploring the transititon from film to digital. The author laments the attitude novice photographers have these days – it’s digital, it’s somehow “better” than film, but we’re “picture builders”, not “takers”.
I agree with him to a certain extent, but the freedom afforded to me by the digital medium and a half-decent camera has helped me get much better in my art.
I understand completely how choosing a simple camera, without automatic controls of any sort, will force a photographer to learn “how” to take photographs properly. When I want to experience that I simply set my camera to Manual mode and I get a lot more control over the camera. That doesn’t help my technique or eye of course. That comes with time and practice and I think I’ll never stop developing that!

If you consider a picture as a frozen moment in time… Can you alter that moment? Yes and no. Yes, you can tweak the image in a darkroom or in Photoshop… But more importantly: you can never capture THAT moment again.