Occasional Musings
How to paint with light
An excellent tutorial from Phototuts+ about how to use various light sources to paint a landscape with light in photography. The article gives tips about various light sources to use (flash, gels, torch…etc) and also about color temperatures.
More info here: [The Link]
My own attempt at light painting using a flashlight/torch, candle and a laser pointer.
Why you should take photos in RAW
Pixiq
via Why you should take photos in RAW.
You can say a lot about whether you should be shooting in JPG or TIFF or RAW, but ultimately, for most photographers, the argument is very simple indeed:
The last kodachrome film roll, by Steve McCurry
Film rolls are now gone into pages of history of photography. Photographer Steve McCurry was given the last production film roll and he took some iconic photographs to mark the end of film rolls.
This is the last image that he took from this roll.
A statue in a cemetery in Parsons, home to the last photographic lab in the world that developed Kodachrome film, July 2010. [image source: Steve's Blog]
Read more about this in his blog here: [Steve's Blog]
View all the images from that roll @vanityfair mag: [Slide Show]
A photograph, is it true or false?
A very interesting essay by Errol Morris about the truth/false-hood of a photography. Very eloquently summarized by him…
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The idea that photographs hand us an objective piece of reality, that they by themselves provide us with the truth, is an idea that has been with us since the beginnings of photography. But photographs are neither true nor false in and of themselves. They are only true or false with respect to statements that we make about them or the questions that we might ask of them.
The photograph doesn’t give me answers. A lot of additional investigation could provide those answers, but who has time for that?
Pictures may be worth a thousand words, but there are two words that you can never apply to them: “true” and “false.”
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What is the above photograph? To find out hit the source link below.
More of this essay from here: [The Link]
Also, interesting is his upcoming book: [Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography]