Four ways of looking at a building
When you look at these images of a building, each taken at a different time of day, notice the different quality of light. How does our mind see times of …
Forget the rule of thirds…
“To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.” – Edward Weston The rule of …
Small, lightweight, strong tripod…
(AND YOU WON’T BELIEVE THE PRICE) You’re heading on a random shoot and you want to travel light. So you take just your camera and kit zoom. But it’s close …
Lightroom Tools
WordPress/Lightroom integration WP/LR Sync – for syncing Lightroom to WordPress Lightroom hardware MIDI2LR: An Open Source App That Lets You Use Any MIDI Controller in Lightroom https://rsjaffe.github.io/MIDI2LR/ There’s really no …
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” …
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 …
“Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.”
“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 it used to be, some of …
Camera Tricks are magic!
In the YouTube video Camera Tricks are not Magic, magician Penn Jilette aims a broadside at fake magicians who substitute camera trickery for skilled slight-of-hand. That question, what is magic? dovetails …