Archive for June, 2007

Tips, Tutorials, Hacks

Using Overexposure

Most times when photographers shoot pictures, they work hard to get the exposure correct so that their images reflects what they saw in real life. At times, though, I deliberately over or underexpose for effect. In an earlier post, Creating Blackgrounds, I discussed how to use underexposure to create dramatic [...]

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Grab bag

The American Experience | The Wizard of Photography

As part of the film Wizard of Photography, the story of George Eastman, PBS created a timeline of the history of photography that you can view on their website. It's covers a lot of important events in photography between 1826 and 1992. The American Experience | The Wizard of Photography | [...]

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News

Kodak says camera sensor may eliminate flash – Yahoo! News

It's an interesting idea and a direction that all digital camera makers are obviously headed in. Every generation of digital camera will have higher ISOs with less noise than the previous batch. Now imagine just a little ways in the future when you can get the equivalent of ISO 12800 [...]

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Tips, Tutorials, Hacks

Tutorial: Create a lightweight, cheap photo backdrop from PVC

Good? Check. Cheap? Check. Easy? Check!

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Essays

Dealing with the inevitable

How do you deal with copyright infringement?

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