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On Photography, Art, And The Creative Life
Welcome to the place affectionately known as my "writings on the walls", where you will find images, thoughts, and discussions on Photography, Art, and The Creative Life... or so I'm told.
How I Did It :: Used Film Part 10
So now we get to the place with Polaroid film where I spent the most time to master, the famous Polaroid Transfer technique. This particular technique involves using the Type-59 Polaroid 4x5 film and “transferring” the image from the Polaroid substrate to a watercolor paper substrate.
A wee bit of history: Before Polaroid Transfers became widely p...
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How I Did It :: Used Film Part 11
This image I’ve titled “When Picasso Met Josephine” is the last in the Used Film series, and another example of using the Polaroid Transfer process. Through this whole series of how I made the images, one thing you may catch is that re-photographing, and re-re-photographing an image on the same or different film to achieve a certain effect is somet...
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Zen and the Art of Aperture
I love beauty and beautifully designed things. The adage that “form follows function” is true, and when both are in perfect harmony, the results are a delight for the senses. Can a software program embody that level of beautiful design? I think so. I’ve written previously about what a well designed program Aperture is, and here I want to emphasize...
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I’ve Never Been Married… To The DSLR/SLR Camera Format
I’ll be honest, I’ve never been married to the traditional 35mm film camera format, the SLR (Single Lens Reflex) and now DSLR cameras that are the standard of digital image capture today. That’s not to say I haven’t had my share of the cameras, going back to when we loaded film in their ubiquitous bodies. I got my first SLR (a Pentax K1000) my seni...
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Aperture :: Iterations and Variations
Picasso was asked, "When do you know a painting is 'finished'?," to which he is reported to have replied, "When it is signed." Now we photographers, especially those of us now working in the digital realm of the medium rarely if ever sign our work, unless perhaps we print the work. Brooks Jensen, one of my favorite people in all of photography has...
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The Perfect Pairing :: Aperture and Exposure X5
Sometimes, once in a great while perhaps, you come across a pair of image editing softwares that play so well together you can't help but marvel at how well they do it. Most people will have a pair of software they use for image editing like the Adobe pairing of Photoshop and Lightroom to do all they need to create their images. Some really crazy f...
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Aperture :: And The Unsupported Image Format
If you are an Aperture user (I know, we are a very small but dedicated and scrappy bunch), this is the one thing you hope never to see! This dreaded image will appear after you import a RAW file that Aperture doesn't support, which includes most any camera that came out after 2015. The complete list of compatible cameras and their RAW formats for A...
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The Continued Case Against Software Subscriptions
Grabbing a warm, steamy cup of Joe, I thought I would settle in and wax on with a few more thoughtful insights against subscription software, specifically software geared towards photography and image editing and offer some questions you may not have thought to consider. Now I wrote an earlier blog post on "The Case Against Subscription Software" t...
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Aperture :: Make It Big
If you are an Adobe Creative Cloud subscriber you probably know by now Adobe has just released an update to their separate RAW imaging processor Adobe Camera Raw (ACR). If you didn't get the memo, the YouTubes are alight with demos on its main feature Super Resolution. Funny thing is most of those channels are also running ads for the popular compe...
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Tools Too :: Photography Gear Matters ~ Or Does It?
A few years ago I wrote a post called "Tools:: On Why Gear Really Does Matter" and I have wanted to do an update, or at least carry the conversation further ever since. I blame all of this gear talk on David Duchemin, he's the one who started it, or at least focused on it ('scuse the pun!) But David is a kindred spirit and we teach much of the same...
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