Category: Photography
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What He Said
” He ” being the chap who wrote the advertising copy for the agency selling new digital cameras. What he said was you have to buy the new digital camera from the manufacturer and you have to give the shop some $ 3500.00. If you don’t, you’ll be in trouble. Know what I mean…? Well……
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Which Gen Are You?
Apparently you get a choice between X, Y, and Z, and your taste in clothes, music, and social opinion is assigned to you on that basis. But if you were born before theses letters, you are to be lumped into a broader category – the Baby Boomer. I think this is silly and unscientific. I…
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Put Your Money Down And Walk Away
And no-one gets hurt. It’s new marketing for a brutal age. Gone are the days when we had to show you half-clad girls lounging on Ferraris – or on Exakta cameras, for that matter. We no longer need to entice you – all we do is threaten you and the money is ours. Of course,…
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What Creating Content Meant
It meant creating contentment. And it generally did not require a vlogging camera. Times has changed. Now you must use the latest vlogging camera to create content. Whether people are happy with it or not is beside the point. If you inch up the SEO chart with your exposé of how to unscrew a jam…
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Kondo Your Camera
Marie Kondo, the famous Japanese désencombreuse, is welcome in my camera room, my computer room, and my hard drive. I might baulk at her moving through the rest of the house – particularly in the scale model workshop or the library, but she can do her best in the photo section. For far too long…
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The Entire Plan
And why we don’t have one. I never realised at the start of my photographic career…and I use the term in its broadest sense…that I never had a complete plan. I was within a small circle of endeavour that was whole; the photos I took and developed were for the high school yearbook, and this…
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Carry On, Sergeant.
A 1958 launch of one of the longer-running gags on the British cinema screen. Most of the following films were rewarding and some delightful. As a philosophy it also applies very much to photography today. We are being bombarded with advertisements that urge us to change, followed by news that tries to make us despair.…
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The Exhibition Catalogue
One of the hardest books to write – and the easiest to illustrate – is an exhibition catalogue. It can also be one of the dullest. A lot of my photographic bookshelves contain these sorts of thing. I have purchased them from second-hand shops as examples of a famous photographer’s work. Often these are the…
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An Attack Of The Moralities
The recent and on-going kerfuffle about AI generation of images has prompted me to examine my own ethics when it comes to making use of other people’s images. For years I have cheerfully shot pictures in art galleries of the interesting things on display. I comment on them, but never claim them for my own.…
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The Second Time You Leap Off The Cliff
This is not about love affairs or business ventures…it’s about home-designed engineering. The fine art of making a limousine out of a kiddy-car and a bag of dead fish. In my case I have a car so no need for the smelly Roller. But I always need newer and weirder photographic gear, and the prices…
Dr. Stein's Photographic Establishment 