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Ansel Adams At 100
The Art of Photography
Levels of Abstraction
Abstracting The Landscape
Antarctica – The Global Warning – a book commentary
It’s About Light
Antarctica – What Worked, What Didn’t
Adventures on the Dark (and Noisy ) Side
What is it About? – deconstructing an image
Digital Tools for Architectural Photographers – by Richard Sexton
Mounting Prints on Aluminum
Architecture of a New Landscape – by Eric Meola
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B&W Revival
Backpacking Photography
Been There, Done That
Top Photo Books
Bias
Behind The Lens
Private Photographic Book Publishing
The Black Church — Two Icelandic Portraits
A Question of White Balance
How The Brain Perceives Images
The Problem With Photographing The Beautiful and The Famous
Balmoral Mist Deconstructed
Bangladesh Women
Bangladesh – What’s in the Bag and Why
Bangladesh – The Children
Bangladesh: What Worked – What Didn’t
Bombay Taxi
The Best and Worst of 2012
Beyond Calibration – by Chris Schneiter
Off to Oz – What’s in The Bag?
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Country Fairs and Midways
Self Critiquing
Current Canon Controversies (Spring 2003 )
Cloning the Can
Street Photograph in China
Suggestions for the Next 1 Series Canon
Counting Ants – Seven Days in the Field with a Digital View Camera
Canon 24-105mm Flare Issue
Cameras Do Matter
Canon 1Ds MKIII Initial Impressions
Do Curves Throw You A Curve?
48 Hours in Color-Management Hell
The Convergence of Still Photography and Video
Medium Format Digital Collages
The Call – shooting a major ad for a camera company, by James Russell
Camera Metrics
Clumps and Chumps – Does Film Outresolve Digital?
Canon 5D Design Flaw
China in the Bag
The Canon 5D “C” Mode Gotcha
CMYK 2.0 – a book review, by Ray Maxwell
Canon Expo 2010 New York
Mirrorless – Video – Convergence
Cacophony – telling a story with video
Compact System Camera Image Quality – an analysis by Imatest LLC
Am I a Photographic Cheat – by Mark Schacter
Do You Have a 4K Future? – the future of convergence
A Critique of Contemporary Camera Design
The Synthesis of Chinese Landscape Painting and Photography – by George DeWolfe
Edward Curtis – The Man Who Never Slept – by Eric Miola
Won Over to the Cloudy Side – by Michael Reichmann
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Dream Street
Digital Quality
The Digital Revolution & Equipment Angst
Digital Bridge Cameras andCognitive Dissonance — Why The Sony F828 Produces Consumer Angst
Image Deconstruction
DNG Recover Edges
Dynamic Patience -– by Bors Vesterby
Driving Your Camera
An Analysis of DxO Mark Sensor
Image Disembodyment
Digicams vs. DSLRs
An Afternoon at DALSA
It’s the Depth of Field. A Rebuttal
Digital View Cameras in Use and on the Go
Dynamic Patience – by Bors Vesterby
Different Kind Of Backpack – Mark Dubovoy
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Epson as Art
Enigma Variations
The Ethics of Filter Use
Erosion of Photographer’s Rights
Lens Equivalents
Oh No! Not More Elephants
A Landscape Photography Experiment – On the Trail With the Leica M9
So You Think Medium Format is Easy?
Eyes vs. Numbers – which to believe?
Photographers and Painters – A Symbiosis
The Empirical Photographer
Enough Already
Epson 4000 Operating Cost Analysis
Tracking the Cost of Printing with an Epson 4800
The Photographer Excludes
Does Equipment Affect Creativity
Everything Matters
Everything Matters – Part 2
An Embarrassment of Riches – two great new cameras, by Mark Dubovoy
Everything That’s Important in Photography I Learned from Classical Music – by Mark Schacter
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Selecting Focal Lengths
Focal Length Comparison
Fishing vs. Hunting
Flying with Photo Equipment in 2003
The Fallacy of Judging Image Quality Online
Photography as a Framing Art
Fancy Graphics Galore Part I
Fancy Graphics Galore Part II
Equipment Notes From The Field —What Works? What Breaks? What Then?
From Digital to Analog, and Back
When Slower is Faster – does a DSLR shoot faster than a medium format back (in the studio, tethered)?
From the Big House, to the Outhouse
Flying with Camera Gear Post Dec 25, 2009 – What’s Changed – What Hasn’t
Are Your Pictures out of Focus?
Five Camera Technologies We Want, But Probably Won’t Get – by Nick Devlin
2011 Photo Industry “Fails of The Year” – The First Annual LuLa Awards
Full Frame Wars, Part Deux
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The Making of Ghana, An African Portrait Revisited
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An interview withJack Showalter , president of Hasselblad USA.
Hasselblad H3D Concerns
Making Profiles with the Z3100 Printer
Understanding What Makes a Good Image and Learning How to Use That Knowledge
Photographing the Human Condition – by Glenn Guy
A Please for HDR
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Image Security
Digital Camera Image Quality
Industry Push Pull
Impressions of Light – a how-to essay by William Neill
Irish Nocturne – a primer on night landscape photography, by Peter Cox
What Will The Apple iPad Mean for Photographers?
I Turned 40 Last Sunday – from D100 to D800 – by Bernard Languiller
Industry Insights – From Past to Future
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Just for Fun – a 1000mm Moonset Video Clip
J’Accuse – why camera makers produce flawed products
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The End of an Era – Adios Kodachrome
A Photographer’s Eulogy for Eastman Kodak
L
On Location
Leica Lens Compendium
Is Large Format Really “Best?
Levels of Abstraction
Landscapes of Our Minds
Lens Equivalents
Leica M8 – Another Perspective
Life With The Riser Crew and the Rule Of The Square
Landscapes of The Spirit
The Lolita Affair
The Leica M8 in Antarctica
Leica M8 atThe Cemetario de la Recoleta
It’s About Light
Learning to See
Lifting the Shroud
Long Road Down – The Making of a Fine Art Photograph
Assembling and Testing The Leica M9
An Open Letter to Leica
The Next M Leica, a Different View
Tom Hogan Considers –What’s Next For Leica?
Learning From The Best Images
The Light Fantastic
The Next Chapter in Photographic Lighting
An Open Letter to Major Camera Manufacturers – by Mark Dubovoy
Returning to The Leica Fold
A Visit to The Leica Factory – by Nick Rains
Learning Video Production The Hard Way
Waiting for The New Leica M while using the NEX-7 as a Surrogate
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In Memoriam 9-11
Making Mega-Prints
George Lamont Mancuso rememberance
The Making of Two Photographs
Micro-Payment Agencies
Micro Payment Agencies – Some Alternatives
Many Factors: “ It’s not the camera, it’s the photographer”. Right?
An interview with Mike Johnston by David Emerick
Making The Right Choice
Making Images
Measuring Megabytes – The Great Luminous Landscape 2006 State-of-The-Art Shootout
The Mob Goes Wild
Meditations in Monochrome
Why Moore’s Law Does Not Apply to Digital Photography
Not So Fast in Dismissing Moore’s Law
Moore’s Law and Digital Photography – More Rebuttals
En Mexico
Thoughts on Medium Format Cameras
Mounting Prints on Aluminum
Memories of Color – by Peter van den Hamer
Are Museums Destroying Art? – by Mark Dubovoy
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Night Landscape Photography
Never Presume
Nikon D3 / Canon 1Ds MKIII / Nikon D300
Nostalgia : Some Thoughts on Camera Collecting
The Naked Sensor
O
On Reflection
An Open Letter To Digital SLR Manufacturers
On The Appeal of LF Cameras for an Innocent DSLR Photographer
Outdoor Photography in Challenging Environments
On The Appeal of LF Cameras for an Innocent DSLR Photographer
Toronto / U.S. Travel Outrage
Olympus Ups Its Game
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On Photography
What Photography Isn’t
A Parable on equipment
Practice Makes Perfect
The Project
The Three P’s and L’s of Photography
Parade photography
Procession
Pervasive Photography
Pixel Count And Future Imaging Chips
Oscar Peterson — A Portrait
Photokina 2002 Report
Pi-Media-Networks
Private Photographic Book Publishing
A Visit with Phase One
Panoramic Adventures
Private Photographic Book Publishing
When Pretty Isn’t Enough
Phase One P45 back Vs 4X5″ drum scanned film
The Case of the Nit Picking Pixel Peepers
Photo Imaging Expo – Tokyo 2005
PMA 2005 Show Report
PMA 2006
PMA 2006 – A View of the Photographic Industry From 30,000 Feet
PMA 2007
Phase One and Mamiya Get Hitched
PIE 2009
A Please for HDR
Preparation Comes First
Photography, Rain or Shine
A Video Interview with Leaf and Phase One Executives About Their New 80MP Backs
Planning Your Photography Trips – by Peter Cox
PhotoPlus 2011 Show Roundup
Photokina 2012 Show Report
Photographing From The Heart – Steve Gosling
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Quality vs. Value – When is Enough Enough?
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Digital Camera Resolution Demystified
Racing Photography
The Raw Truth – Part One
The RAW Flaw
RAW File Encryption and Competition Law
A Reviewer’s Responsibility – thoughts on the question of bias
A Reviewer’s Responsibility
Seeing Red & the Casio EX-F1 – Raw Goes to the Movies
The Rise of Digital imaging and the Fall of the Old Camera industry
The Game of Photography – by Harold Merklinger
Rolleiflex 2.8F; An Old-Timer in the Digital Age – by István Nagy
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Same Old Shot, Different Day
Selling Your Photographs
Safe Computing for Photographers
Symmetry
Speaking Photography
When Slower is Faster – does a DSLR shoot faster than a medium format back (in the studio, tethered)?
The Surface of Things – Reflections on Recent Digital Paper Offerings
Sensor and Sensibility
Explaining the Sigma SD1’s Untenable Launch Price
Photographers and Painters – A Symbiosis
Digital Safari Equipment Tips
Swimming with the Sharks
From Snapshot to Fine Art
Street Photograph in China
Lifting the Shroud
Is The Photo Equipment Supply Chain Totally Broken?
On Safari with a Leica S2 and Panasonic GH2
Seeing in Color
The Naked Sensor
Waiting for The New Leica M while using the NEX-7 as a Surrogate
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T
Trekking Photography
Twin Sons of Different Mothers
Telling It Like It Is
Top Photo Books
Telling the Story
Counting Triangles — Understanding What Works, and Why —examining the geometry of a single photography
Ten Movies Every Photographer Should See
Taking Your Photography to the Next Level Park 1 of 3
Take Your Photography to the Next Level Part 2 of 3
Reading Tea Leaves
Thinking in Themes – by William Neill
The Top Two Things You Can’t Do On the Internet
Gear For Trecking Photography – by Bernard Languillier
Take Time With Your Images – by Christopher Schneiter
Tree On A Hill – By Kevin Raber
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V
Veracity of digital images
Variations
Videography for Photographers
Develop Your Own Vision
The View Camera in a Digital World – by Mark Dubovy
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Where & When
Why Don’t They Get It?
Whither Nikon
Workshop’s Worth
Want – Need – Afford – pick any two
What is it About? – deconstructing an image
Why Photographs Work
What Slide Film Taught Me – by Mehesh Venkitachalam
When Failure is Not an Option
A Watch Parable
The Henry Wilhelm Interview – Video
The Henry Wilhelm Interview – Audio
The Weakest Link – by John Pannozzo
Why What Works – Contrast, Gesture and Implication
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Yes, it Matters
Yosemite Sanctuary
You Can’t Do That With Medium Format
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VIDEO
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