Category: Photography
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The Promise Of Digital 3D
Seems to have been either unfulfilled or broken – depending upon the amount of investment that the users have entered into. The old film 3D is as dead as Kodachrome and TDC. Even the retrothusiasts are unable to make or find the copious amounts of materials needed to manufacture 3D slides and any enjoyment of…
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Playing At Soldiers
I’ve done it, and done it well with colours flying and drums a’beating. All the thrill of battle with blank cartridges. Campaign for the day and home for tea at night. Silly? Childish? Pointless? Well, you can form your own opinion and welcome to it; I found it fascinating, and did not take any harm…
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The 2024 Self Promotion Awards
Brought to you by the MegaMouth Corporation – photography’s own network, broadcasting 26 hours each day on anything that can plug into a light socket. Now with added Niacin for a glossy coat. Photographers are required by the Commonwealth to register their advertising under the Noxious Substances Act ( 1934 ). This is a precaution…
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If You Can Take A Step Back…
You may not be mowed down by the AI juggernaut…or at least not the one piloted by Adobe. I like the Adobe products I use…older copies of both Lightroom and Photoshop plus a decade-old Photoshop Elements program – long ago bought and installed. Yet I see there is a North American fuss being made about…
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Nearly Anything You Can Photograph
Can be seen. Sometimes you need help – a lens or a light – but you can see it yourself, and you do not need to record it on a film or a sensor. Sometimes the only time you need to see it is once, and you will be better for never having that view…
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Broken Biscuits Are Just As Tasty
Just messier to eat. And art and hobby groups are fine in themselves when the are all over the place…but sometimes you wish they would get together for a big show. I find this with both the dance world and the little world. There are a any number of special-interests groups hived off from each…
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And That Is Why
A perfect illustration of illustration yesterday. I went to Costco yesterday – we needed to add my name to the family account. Apparently there is a need for 5 cubic metres of chili corn chips… The request was handled in three minutes at the membership desk. My name, a glance at a driver’s licence to…
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Valueless Is Very Valuable
As soon as you recognise it as such. Too many advertisements for photographic gear tout it as the next best thing to sliced bread. In my experience the next best thing to sliced bread is cheese and a pickle. If you buy everything that is offered for sale you will, indeed, have everything, but run…
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You Have A Right To Your Own Opinion
In the case of artistic judgement, this is an absolute one. You may be pleased, horrified, amused, depressed, or anything in between. Use your own judgement and make your own pronouncements – but make them internally. Be silent about your likes and dislikes – to give others a fair chance to form their own opinions.…