Ansel Adams and Lightroom
Ansel Adams developed the Zone System as a tool to help film photographers adjust the tonality and dynamics “seen” by the camera (and envisioned by the photographer) to the “light-space” … Read more
Lightroom Vibrance
Anyone who’s spent a little time with Vibrance in Adobe Lightroom’s Development module knows what a great tool it is. It is “smart saturation”; which is to say it saturates … Read more
“Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Decisive Moment. “He had his little Leica,” [fashion photographer Helmut] Newton remembers, “and he simply would point and shoot.” Since Cartier-Bresson’s hand isn’t as steady as … Read more
Camera Tricks are magic!
In the YouTube video Camera Tricks are not Magic, magician Penn Jilette delivers a broadside against fake magicians who substitute camera trickery for skilled slight-of-hand. The question “what is magic?” dovetails with … Read more