Blending Light Sources

A quick look at mixing ambient and strobe.

Improvisation

Photography has a connection with time that in some ways is the opposite of a performer. Although photographers rarely speak of improvisation, street photography and photojournalism are essentially improvisational.

Hanging Large Canvas Prints

An idea for dealing with huge prints.

Panning-Knowing your subject

If you look for advice on panning techniques for still photography you will find countless images of race cars and cyclists—but real world subjects are rarely this well behaved.

Teddy Roosevelt

Misusing Teddy Roosevelt's environmental legacy

The roads less travelled

R.S.2477: using an old law to protect non-existent roads.

Rescuing obsolete formats

Digital files have the potential to be archival—nothing degrades, colors don't fade, they are immune from mildew and can be endlessly copied—but the pace with which formats and media change makes them considerably less stable than film.

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