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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Value, Intensity, and Tonality. And the Greatest of these is Tonality.
What is it that makes one picture more more striking than another? What is it that makes tones appear sharp and detailed in one area of the picture and smooth and transient in another? The answer to both of these … Continue reading
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Color Management: The Conception, Misconception, Birth and Afterbirth. I Remember it All Too Well.
THE WAY IT WERE I had spent the prior 20 years laboring inside the color separation/printing industry when all the digital feces hit the photo-lithographic fan back in the mid eighties. Shortly thereafter I found myself consulting with an upstart … Continue reading
Posted in Color Management, Underpinnings and Core Issues
Tagged abstract art, basic photography, black and white, camera modes, camera sensor, cloudy, color compensation, color correction, color photography, contrast, cookie cutter, Digital Camera, digital image, digital noise, Digital Photography, film grain, graphic equalizer, grayscale, halftone, human eyesight, image editing, image repair, image shaping, internal contrast, JPG, overcast, photo editing, photography, photography basics, photography tips, photoshop, primer for newbies, raw, saturation, shadow detail, spectral, three-quarter tones, tonality, visual cortex, white balance
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Neither Your Eyes Nor Your Camera Can Actually See Color. They See White Light!
Don’t tune me out just yet. It’s actually true. What few people realize about capturing color images is that each capture starts in black and white. There is no such thing as capturing color! Let me try that from a slightly different approach. … Continue reading
Posted in Underpinnings and Core Issues
Tagged abstract art, basic photography, black and white, camera modes, camera sensor, cloudy, color compensation, color correction, color photography, contrast, cookie cutter, Digital Camera, digital image, digital noise, Digital Photography, film grain, graphic equalizer, grayscale, halftone, human eyesight, image editing, image repair, image shaping, internal contrast, JPG, overcast, photo editing, photography, photography basics, photography tips, photoshop, primer for newbies, raw, saturation, shadow detail, spectral, three-quarter tones, tonality, visual cortex, white balance
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Overcast Days: The Lighting Simply Doesn’t Get Any Better
Am I alone here? Does anybody else get excited about shooting in overcast conditions? I use to think I was a contrast junkie, but I discovered that my passion is for detail, more one of an internal contrast issue than … Continue reading
Posted in Tonality and Appearance
Tagged abstract art, basic photography, black and white, camera modes, camera sensor, cloudy, color compensation, color correction, color photography, contrast, cookie cutter, Digital Camera, digital image, digital noise, Digital Photography, film grain, graphic equalizer, grayscale, halftone, human eyesight, image editing, image repair, image shaping, internal contrast, JPG, overcast, photo editing, photography, photography basics, photography tips, photoshop, primer for newbies, raw, saturation, shadow detail, spectral, three-quarter tones, tonality, visual cortex, white balance
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You are a victim of mass-media deception.
There is one universal ruse that the media uses openly and effectively every day to deceive the majority of the watching public. Do you know what it is? Leave a brief comment with your best guess. Here are some possible … Continue reading
Posted in Opinions
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The Photographic Process is an Outright Lie!
…and you know it. Yet you buy into it every day. “I can’t believe my eyes” is actually more true than you realize when it comes to photographic images. You have been a willing victim of this ruse for as … Continue reading
Posted in Analog and Digital Photography, Tonality and Appearance, Underpinnings and Core Issues
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The Critical Importance of Knowing Why You Do What You Do.
If you are a photographer, chances are that you already know good color when you see it. But knowing what good color looks like is just one part of the color photography equation, producing good color in an efficient manner is … Continue reading
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Tagged abstract art, basic photography, camera modes, camera sensor, color compensation, color correction, color photography, contrast, cookie cutter, Digital Camera, digital image, digital noise, Digital Photography, film grain, graphic equalizer, human eyesight, image editing, image repair, image shaping, JPG, photo editing, photography, photography basics, photography tips, photoshop, primer for newbies, raw, saturation, shadow detail, spectral, three-quarter tones, tonality, visual cortex, white balance
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Why Do Most HDR Images Look… Weird?
There’s a fundamental (human) mystery in the way many/most HDR images are produced, best described as something between overdone, foreboding and ominous. This really works well if you’re going for the surrealistic look, but… Sort of reminds me of my … Continue reading
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Tagged abstract art, basic photography, camera modes, camera sensor, color compensation, color correction, color photography, contrast, cookie cutter, Digital Camera, digital image, digital noise, Digital Photography, film grain, graphic equalizer, human eyesight, image editing, image repair, image shaping, JPG, photo editing, photography, photography basics, photography tips, photoshop, primer for newbies, raw, saturation, shadow detail, spectral, three-quarter tones, tonality, visual cortex, white balance
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What Music Theory Taught Me About Digital Images
I’m blessed to have grown up with two creative interests in my life; music and design. As I alluded to in an earlier post (You’ll probably never realize your full potential as a photographer), my musical training early in life … Continue reading
Posted in Analog and Digital Photography, Tonality and Appearance, Underpinnings and Core Issues
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Exposing the Secrets of the Mystogram
The histogram is an awkward visual metaphor invented by software Mathematician/Engineers to describe the tonal values of each color channel in a digital image. It is a noble attempt to visualize the dynamics of an image’s tones, even if it … Continue reading
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Tagged basic photography, camera modes, camera sensor, color compensation, color correction, color photography, contrast, cookie cutter, Digital Camera, digital image, digital noise, Digital Photography, film grain, graphic equalizer, human eyesight, image editing, image repair, image shaping, JPG, photo editing, photography, photography basics, photography tips, photoshop, primer for newbies, raw, saturation, spectral, three-quarter tones, tonality, visual cortex, white balance
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