Sunday, July 03, 2016

The relentless pursuit of making things easier for consumers. Manufacturer tyranny.

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I wrote a piece yesterday concerning the loss of hands-on craft in our commercial business of photography and what I think we have l...
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Saturday, July 02, 2016

Do you miss your craft?

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Almost every day for the past sixteen years I've gone to swim practice at the same pool. I get in the water and swim the workout that...
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I think we get too intellectual about photography. Trying after the fact to explain why our images work. As though there is some formula more important than, "I love the way this looks through the finder."

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Diagrams, color theory, golden rules, rules of third are nothing more than attempts to explain why humans like what they see. Mostly p...
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Friday, July 01, 2016

Everything about photography seems to be constantly changing and yet, in the commercial world, it seems like we keep doing the same old thing. Over and over.

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From the Zach Theatre production of "Alice in Wonderland."  We've moved from sheet film to roll film, to small digital...
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Thursday, June 30, 2016

Playing with a new (used) lens while I am waiting for Lightroom to chew through 750 files. Hello Contax 28-85mm f3.3-4.

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Summer Haze over downtown Austin. From the south side of the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge. I am so suggestible. On a whim, earlier this...
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Color control via custom white balancing in camera.

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We were shooting in interesting light yesterday. And it was fun. We were using CooLED lights in soft boxes, and in shiny reflectors co...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

One more one light portrait before we extinguish the studio lights and go into the house...

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©Kirk Tuck. All Rights Reserved. Renee Zellweger and I were just playing around in the studio and I decided to do a portrait with ...
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