Color Memory is Fluid

A lot of photographers set an objective to match color the way they remember it. But how reliable is their color memory? Not very. Try this. Look at this color. Then hide it. Mix it in Photoshop. Then compare your results with the original. Were...

Play

Each summer my we go to Italy to visit my wife’s family. My son and I share point and shoot camera’s and make whimsical interpretations of our experiences there. I’ve learn a lot when I take time to play. I become more versatile and improvisational....

Family Albums

I make family albums every year. If I didn’t have the project and deadline and a commitment to others I might not take the time to find, finish, and print the best images. Without identifying the use for them, I might not make many of...

Bulletin Boards

This is my bulletin board. It’s full of ideas I’m working on. Finished images. Snapshots. Clippings. Text. You name it. Frequently seeing the ideas I’m working on helps me develop them on an ongoing basis. I’m constantly incubating ideas. The board changes dynamically. I make...

How Do Live With Your Images?

How do you live with your images? You make a lot of them. 1% get finished. Some become used in projects – slideshows, exhibits, books, etc. But, day to day, how do you revisit our images? Website (gallery or splashpage)? Online social network (Flickr or...

Learn to Earn

Listen – 1:52 Idea Learn to earn. The more you know the more opportunities lie before you. The more you know the more productive you are. The more you know the better your product becomes. The more you know the more valuable you are. Investing...

Visualizing Color Conversions

Why should you convert Raw files into ProPhoto? What happens when you convert sRGB files to ProPhoto? The visual examples in this video will clarify these and other questions. If you like it, you can post this YouTube video on your blog. For more, check...

Visualizing Gamut Compression

There’s an art to making sense of color management. Some time ago I posted this video about visualizing gamut compression on YouTube. If you like it, you can post it on your blog. For more, check out my Color Management Downloads and DVD plus Power...

New Facebook Terms

New York magazine currently has a great article on important recent developments on Facebook. Do You Own Facebook? Or Does Facebook Own You? by Vanessa Grigoriadis. Facebook recently changed usage terms (they expanded their ability to use member contributed content – even after members left...

Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell

10,000 hours. The amount of time it takes to become an expert at something. That’s 40 hours a week for 250 weeks or 4.8 years. That’s what most people talk about when they talk about Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers : The Story of Success. But Gladwell...