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Category Archives: Photography
Another Photo Book You Should Buy
Doug Brewer has finally put together a self-published photo book. (About time, Doug!) It has the quintessentially Brewer-ish title How to Milk a Wooden Cow and the cover bears a photograph demonstrating exactly what the title describes. Doug’s photography, at … Continue reading
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Photographers vs. Thugs with Badges
In case you missed the latest step of a western democracy turning into a police state, here it is: One of the annoying things about the new anti-photographer authoritarianism is that it generally targets users of large, conspicuous cameras; the … Continue reading
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Xtranormal PDML Quotations
So every year I compile a list of my favorite witty quips and words of wisdom (more of the former than the latter, I must confess) from the PDML, a photography mailing list I’m on. This year I’ve added the … Continue reading
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Copyright Issues: Licensing Photos, Music & Other Media Legally
Photographers have a thing about copyright. Perhaps you’ve noticed? Every other day someone on a mailing list or web forum is flying off the handle because he’s (it’s always a “he”) discovered an unauthorized use of one of his images. … Continue reading
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Tri-Chromatic Vision
The digital camera you take photographs with and the computer monitor you’re currently looking at both create colors by combining various amounts of pure red, pure green and pure blue. These are called the additive primaries of tri-chromatic vision. We … Continue reading
Posted in Color Management, Photography, Photoshop
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Calibrating and Profiling your Computer Monitor
After getting a high quality monitor, the next step toward accurate image processing is having your monitor properly calibrated and profiled. In my experience you are much better off using a high quality monitor without any calibration/profiling than you are using a budget TN monitor that is calibrated and profiled. (For information on selecting a good LCD monitor, see my earlier article on this subject.) Of course, ideally, you want to do both: Get a high quality monitor and have it fully calibrated and profiled, but profiling hardware and software costs money and if your budget is tight I recommend you start with the best monitor you can afford (favoring quality over monitor size) and save up to get a profiling kit later.
Calibration vs Profiling
If you’ve heard the term “calibrated monitor” you may have noticed that I’ve specified that your monitor must be “calibrated and profiled”. Calibration and profiling are two different (but related) things and you need both to be sure you’re monitor is showing you an accurate representation of the image that’s on your hard drive. Continue reading
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Boston Mayor’s Cup, 2009 — Criterium Bicycle Race
In my last post I showed some experimental shots from the 2009 Mayor’s Cup races here in Boston. Now I’ll present a collection of more conventional photography from this event. Click the image above (or below) to see the rest … Continue reading
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Bicycle Race in Boston: An Experiment in Photography
So… yesterday I went downtown for the first annual Mayor’s Cup, a criterium bicycle race in downtown Boston. The racing started fairly late in the day for this time of year: The sun was pretty low even at the start … Continue reading
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Pentax K-X Press Introduction
The introduction of the new Pentax K-X was held on September 16th, 2009 at the International Center of Photography on 6th Ave at 43rd street in New York City. (My photo gallery of the trip is here.) The ICP is … Continue reading
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Photo Mosaics
Ever since the publication of the PDML Photo Annual (see link and photo at right), I’ve had a lot of people asking me how the photo mosaic on the cover was made. The answer is disappointingly mundane: I had software … Continue reading
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