Fine-art photographs for home and office
I’m in the process of revamping my site and these are old posts. Some will be outdated so beware. New ones will be coming soon, and I’ll be archiving and correcting or deleting outdated information. Just as I’ll tweak images over time, so too, with my blog posts – with one main difference: while I’m … Read more
After a long three (!) months of waiting from order to delivery, it arrived. It was said to be held up at shipping facility. So far I only have “build” impressions (very good ones) but will be reporting soon on the quality of this budget prime lens. UPDATE – early returns are in – I’m … Read more
Sage words from some of the best. “Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.” — Ansel Adams “Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.” — Henri Cartier-Bresson “The world is falling to pieces and all Adams and Weston photograph is rocks and trees”— Henri Cartier-Bresson “A thing that you … Read more
If you’re worried about whether you need more megapixels, I used to be like you; let me help you. You do not need more megapixels. I’ll explain in a somewhat Zen-like manner. If you need more megapixels, you already know it, so you aren’t worried about it. If you’re worried rather than knowing, it is … Read more
Note: this was written late 2019. Fast-forward to mid-March 2021, Adobe launches “super resolution” – currently only in Adobe RAW and Photoshop. I will review it when it comes to Lightroom. Introduction Almost all my Fuji image-gurus believe the images produced using Lightroom’s new Enhance Details feature are as good, if not better than any … Read more
(stock photo) If you’ve taken serious look into galleries for photography, you’ve probably fallen in love with tiled galleries, easily the most attractive way of presenting images. And you might have seen Jetpack’s implementation. It looks good, but it comes with one major drawback – Jetpack itself, a bulky sledgehammer of a plug-in that includes … Read more
“John’s Big Note is a very simple plugin to add a big free-form note for your own metadata.” If you’ve worked in Lightroom for any length of time, there’s come a moment when you’ve wanted to leave yourself a note about the photo, be it details of the shot, or development notes. This plug-in is … Read more
In addition to photography, I build WordPress websites. Want one? Go to “About” and email me. How I created this site. Plugins: AppearanceNeve themeSmushFooboxWP/LRTiled Galleries Carousel Without Jetpack FunctionWP Real Media Library Advance Custom FieldsAdvanced Custom Fields – Real Media FieldNested Pages
In construction, an accumulation of small errors can aggregate to create a large catastrophic error. I once heard someone use the word “chasing” to describe this phenomenon. The way to avoid the problems was to measure total distance and subdivide rather than adding together smaller measurements. When you work in Lightroom or other post-processing applications, … Read more
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE See new recommendation below! Hengyijia, Zonlai, Discover, 7artisans – different brandings of what is reportedly the same basic lens made at the same China factory. There are plenty of articles on these lenses – and they’re amazingly good for the price (~$80 eBay). With the Fuji’s 1.5 crop factor, the lens is … Read more