Essays
This page list articles on this site in the form of essays about photography. You can find the latest additions on the site's Home Page as well as listed by their date of publication on What's new. An easy way to find specific content of interest is to use the site's Search page.
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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 |
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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 | 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 | |
| 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 |
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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)?
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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 |
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| The Making of Ghana, An African Portrait Revisited |
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| An interview with Jack Showalter, president of Hasselblad USA. | Hasselblad H3D Concerns | Understanding What Makes a Good Image and Learning How to Use That Knowledge | |
| 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
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| Irish Nocturne – a primer on night landscape photography, by Peter Cox | What Will The Apple iPad Mean for Photographers? |
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| Just for Fun – a 1000mm Moonset Video Clip | |||
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| The End of an Era – Adios Kodachrome | A Photographer's Eulogy for Eastman Kodak | ||
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| Night Landscape Photography | Never Presume | Nikon D3 / Canon 1Ds MKIII / Nikon D300 | Nostalgia : Some Thoughts on Camera Collecting |
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| Quality vs. Value – When is Enough Enough? |
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| 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 |
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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
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Take Time With Your Images – by Christopher Schneiter |
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| 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 | |
| When Failure is Not an Option | The Henry Wilhelm Interview – Video | The Henry Wilhelm Interview - Audio |
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| Yes, it Matters | Yosemite Sanctuary |
You Can't Do That With Medium Format |









