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Postings Under Digital Alterations

Faux-tos
July 20, 2010 | posted under: Digital Alterations

It's a good news day for photo manipulation.

Some Notes on Saturation
April 9, 2010 | posted under: Digital Alterations · Photography Techniques · Tech Notes
Telaquana Mountain from the Tundra, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska

The tools we use effect us more than we like to admit. We are so accustomed to working on computers that we tend to forget that the interface of a modern operating system is little more than a set of visual metaphors.

Hier wird nach den Regeln nur eingelassen.
February 23, 2010 | posted under: Digital Alterations · Theory

History is full of attempts to codify beauty. The meistersingers referenced in the quote above are a good example and in fact have a lot in common with the kind of advice you get in magazines, workshops…

Wrangling Digital Colors
September 28, 2009 | posted under: Digital Alterations
Fall Leaves, Eagle River, Alaska

The above photo has been digitally altered with the intent of making is look more like the way I see. Camera manufacturers are in the hands of market forces and one of the unfortunate consequences is the difficulty in getting subtle colors from a digital…

Back in town
September 4, 2009 | posted under: Digital Alterations · Website Business
Roping Horse, Wyoming

I've been in Wyoming for the past two weeks, which is why things have been a little slow around here. I expect to be back on top of things next week. In the mean time I'll leave you with a few out takes of some amazing roping horses in digital conversions

Performance Enhancing Photoshop
July 10, 2009 | posted under: Digital Alterations

Earlier this week the New York Times retracted a photo essay by Edgar Martins with the note: "A picture essay in The Times Magazine on Sunday and an expanded slide show on NYTimes.com entitled 'Ruins of the Second Gilded Age'"

The abyss of uncertainty
April 13, 2009 | posted under: Digital Alterations · Musings · Nerdiness
Fraser Spiral and Müller-Lyer illusions,

While reading the confidently self-assured comments surrounding stories like that of Klavs Bo Christensen and his images, which were recently disqualified from the Danish Press Photography Union Press Photo Awards for excessive photoshop manipulation, I have to remind myself that ...

The real color
April 2, 2009 | posted under: Digital Alterations · Musings · Photography Techniques
Bronc Rider, Wyoming

Although it's been years since I've loaded a roll of 35mm film into a camera, I still shoot some transparency and b&w film in large and medium formats. I like the options my 4x5 camera affords and the digital options in large format

Faked images in the news
July 10, 2008 | posted under: Digital Alterations

The New York Times and almost everyone else is running a story about the extra Iranian missile digitally added to a photograph. Many of the major news outlets ran the faked image on their front pages. Most of the news ...