Saturday, July 31, 2010

Why are we so preoccupied with new work?

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In an e-mail recently another photographer took me to task for showing work that I'd done in years past.  I understand the fascination ...

I'm not very smart. But I pretend to be smart on the internet......

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I'll admit it.  I find most of the controls in PhotoShop daunting.  There are only a few dozen that I like to use with any regularity a...
Friday, July 30, 2010

Sometimes favorite photographs become that way over a long time. It's almost like they earn their place in your pantheon of pictures....

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I was tooling around Rome after doing a side project for IBM.  What's a side project?  Well, I was originally booked in to do a project...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

You have to get wet if you want to learn to swim.

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If you want to swim competitively, at a very high level,  you'll need to spend time in the water.  A lot of time in the water.  When I s...

Penny's Pastries. Looking for connection.

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I think we all love to photograph people on location but how do we decide where to pose them, how to pose them, what to say to get just th...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Spelling Bee. It's a lot like life. Distilled.

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Photo above from a postcard for the Zach Scott Theater production of:  The 25th Annual Putman County Spelling Bee.  All shot with Olympus ...
Saturday, July 24, 2010

And so we had this big brouhaha! About free. But what matters to me is how much I like the photos.

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Father and son.  At a photo shoot for the Austin Lyric Opera.  Camera: Kodak DCS 760.  Lens:  Nikon 105 defocus coupling.  Light:  Profoto ...