I don’t mean that these photographs were made with a wide-angle lens; more likely some degree of telephoto.
I traveled down to see my friend Paul. He had been making various experiments and discoveries regarding how our vision works with how we print, and how to prepare files accordingly for printing. How people see, and how it relates to all we do with our photographs, is a »
Every so often something comes along to remind me of the folly of thinking that I might have figured how to fully develop my photographs into the prints I want to make. This is one example. I was reading about ways Impressionist painters used color, especially in the sky, »
I didn’t mean to do this, and it’s presumably unpredictable how it might work out. What I was really meaning to do was ask Lightroom to merge a couple of exposures, one for the highlights, one for the shadows, to produce a single image with good, complete dynamic range. “Photo Merge HDR” and »
If you ever visit a forum where the subject is post-processing and/or printing, you will have seen a subject line like “my prints are too dark” many times; alternatively expressed as ‘my print doesn’t match my screen’. So many times in fact, that the experts now will instantly swoop »
This is from when I visited my friend Paul Thacker in Portland, OR and we went downtown with our cameras. When I got back he sent me a print of the photograph he had taken when we standing next to each other. This first image here is how I »