These lenses sometimes called prime lenses or standard lenses, produce a view that resembles the way we believe we perceive our world through normal sight. Things in the foreground, middle ground and distance are displaced visually in proportion to…
Rochester was the center of the photographic universe.
I use them for different reasons. Digital is convenient and modern but film gives me some things that digital has yet to fulfill.
One of the most irritating things in photography is that annoying little screw hole on the bottom of nearly every camera ever built.
The inspiration handed to you in a gallery or a book or on the Internet should be one that elevates you as an artist. It should pull you to wanting to make your work as powerful as what you are looking at. It is not about hype or being cool or making stuff up. It is about revealing truths.
Professionals relied on the square to allow them to crop to the aspect best suited for layout in magazines and catalogs. It was an actual selling point for square format.
Digital photography allows many things that film can’t possibly do. It offers an amazing amount of flexibility and creative possibility. But it is not the same experience as film at all.
“…the eye and the camera see more than the mind knows.” – Nathan Lyons
he Camera Obscura allowed the user to see the subject projected onto a ground glass. The projected image could be traced onto a translucent…
Believe it or not, there used to be in almost every town, small shops that specialized in selling cameras. Once, not so long ago, the camera store was…