Knowing when NOT to take pictures

Just a quick little observation that I’ve had rattling around my mind for the past few days. With the proliferation of digital cameras, with their red eye reduction pre-flashes and blindingly bright rear LCD screens, it seems like everybody has a camera with them at all times.  Now I’m not talking about people who carry a little camera just in case they see something that might make a nice picture on the way home from work.  I’m talking about the people… Read More

My Philosophy On Retouching

As you would imagine from looking at some of my Drabbles series of portraits, I have no problem with a lot of post-production. But that’s mostly when I’m trying to create an image that is almost an illustration, as much as it’s real portrait. But for the most part I tend toward the middle of the road when it comes to retouching, but will admit that this has changed over time. I went from very little, to poorly executed, to fairly well executed but way too much,… Read More

Last Drabbles

I’m done with this set of Drabbles.  There are 46 of them in total.Now it’s time to lay out the book. Read More

Auto Levels Gone Wrong

There’s a problem with bringing high-quality files to your local consumer photo joint or pharmacy photo hut.  And that is that they’re not expecting high-quality files.  It’s not that their machines can’t print well (though often they’re terribly calibrated, etc) rather it’s that the computers in the printers are automatically pre-processing the files to make crappy pictures from your vacation look better. I’m putting together… Read More

A couple of portraits

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