This is one of the most comprehensive tutorials I’ve found that explains and demonstrates the power and nuance that the often overlooked and/or underused by many Tone Curve panel in Lightroom offers when editing images.
Tag: Technical
WHY I use a DSLR for Street Photography & How (Nikon D850) by Samuel Streetlife
As one who evolved from the film/darkroom to digital age, I found this a very captivating video on street photography. From the 35mm Kodak Tri X 400 film days of street photography to today, all of the images produced over that span still fascinate me, regardless of how they were captured.
In this video, he captures the most stunning street photography images and video using a blend of the hardware and formats available over the span of 30+ years.
From a personal standpoint, I have much of the gear he uses in this video, from a small Leica D-Lux 7 pocket camera to a Nikon 35 mm film camera and lenses to a Nikon D750 full frame digital camera and lenses. His reason for using the gear is subjectify situational but aligns with what I feel work in capturing street photography images. Where we depart on that, is on many levels, mostly in the when, where how to use the small compact camera vs, the big body DLSR, and in using a manual lens on a DLSR. After watching this video, that will change.
He is shooting carnival scenes in this video, which I have done, but what he does here is nothing short of extraordinary. It gives me some great ideas to practice and use next time I am a State Fair and/or Carnival event. That practice will start today.
Illuminating photography: From camera obscura to camera phone – Eva Timothy
I studied photography in school during the film/darkroom days, well before the age of digital photography. We would process all our own film/prints in darkrooms. This included color, which was difficult in comparison to black and white, due to the chemical process involved. After school, I worked in a custom color and black and white photo lab where we processed film and made prints and transparencies for customers of all types, from fine art to commercial. This education and experience gave me an appreciation for the fundamentals and roots of early photography and the pioneers who brought it all into the digital age.
In the end, it is about the visual image, and when I look at the first photograph made, and the images after that, I also think about what it took to get those images before my eyes. It is beyond amazing to me how that change with how visual images could be made in the early 19th century created an impact on the history of the world since that is truly unfathomable to fully comprehend.
5 things a DSLR still does better than an iPhone – TECHRADAR
I use my Samsung Android Smartphone camera, small mirrorless Leica Dlux 7, and Nikon D5300 and D750 DSLR cameras all the time. They all serve different purposes for me and each has its pros/cons. This article clearly points out clearly a DLSR does best and I couldn’t agree more.
For me, the final image is what counts. In the end, it is what matters most. The details on how it was created come after that.
The Psychology of Photography
This is an excellent article on how photographic images are both perceived and preconceived, as well as the depth of creative and technical skills it takes to bring them into existence and be noticed.
https://outdoorphotographer.com/tips-techniques/photo-tip-of-week/the-psychology-of-photography/
Photography – The Creative and Technical
Photography combines the creative with the technical. That was true with film and now with digital. This is one reason I enjoy photography and how it can blend both together so well when creating an image. While it may seem that one prevails over the other more in some photographs, I find that upon deeper examination that it becomes apparent both are always present, one could not exist alone without the other although the weight of each can shift and predominate depending on how an image is examined. This goes beyond photography and into some age-old art vs. science dichotomous type of discussions. One of the favorite books I read in my youth and again more recently, decades later is “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An inquiry into Values” by Robert M. Pirsig. Any discussion about the creative and technical brings thoughts of that book to mind without fail. When I shoot and during post-processing images, it comes to mind when I seem to get bogged down and lose focus. It is when that divide between the creative and technical disappears that I seem to come forth with some of my best images.