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new photo criticisms
Benvenuto!
Owing to my excessive interest in photography, rather than clutter my personal web site with musings and other information about photography and photography equipment, I started this web site to contain my writings on photography. Instead of containing, however, it may lead only to more writing on photography. I’ve organized the site in a less personal way so as to allow other select writers to contribute their material. For now, though, it’s just my work.
Equipment Kits
In the equipment section we’ve written a few articles for beginners and new photography students related to assembling photographic equipment. Please check them out and let us know what you think of the articles and the idea in general. We intend to add product reviews and other features to the section. However, it’s not our intention to try to compete will sites like Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com). We hope to offer a different perspective on equipment.
Criticisms
It may be a bit presumptious on the surface, but we’ve taken to writing criticisms of our photographs in the photos section. We’re criticizing them in the true sense, though. We are analyzing them and explaining them from an artistic perspective, using them as teaching aides for new photographers. If you have comments to add to any of our criticisms, please email us so that we may include them.
new book reviews
Leica M
Although an old book and maybe not as current as one would like, this book is not out of date and won’t be so for many years. If you’re n...
Lighting Nudes
If you want to learn about lighting and photography, look to other books. If you have lighting down and just want to be able to take pictures of nude...
Books on Photography
There are so many books on photography—and none of them are cheap. One of the features we want to provide to our visitors is book recommendations. To start, we’ve set up a database and the web pages to display information on books that we own. We’re now adding many books that we don’t own by believe to be good. Once we’re finished with this level of information, we intend to write reviews of each book in our database. That will be a daunting task, but we feel it will be worth doing. Before we begin, though, we want to create some basic guidelines of what we should cover in our book reviews. We don’t want to overwhelm our readers with information. We think each review should be short, less than a thousand words long—probably closer to six-hundred words. We’d like to know your ideas about what we should include in our reviews, the kind of things do you want to know about a book before you buy it. Please email us your suggestions.
Latest Musings
Below is a list of the latest musings on photography related topics:
Is Film Better?
As I improve my equipment and skills in film photography, and as I get better at using Adobe PhotoShop for processing digital images taken with both film and and digital cameras, I’m wondering if there is a difference. I’m wondering if a state of the art, high end digital camera can produce better images digitally and in print than any film camera.
Film Camera and Lens Combination
Top of the line lenses are key to taking high quality photographs, but they can be expensive. This is the problem I’ve had with my film cameras. However, since I already own several excellent EOS L-series lenses, I recently purchased an excellent Canon EOS film camera to be able to use with these lenses.
Learning Monochrome
As part of my latest activities to relearn film photography, as well as to learn what escaped me about film in my youth, I have begun trying black and white film this week. It’s been an interesting experience.
