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I’m a 40 something software engineer. OK, in reality I’m looking 50 right in the eye. I picked up photography over 20 years ago and did a lot of it for many years. Over time, other priorities took over and I neglected it. I recently decided to go back to it and concentrate on monochrome.
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How Photography Works In My Head #2: The Visualisers and the Engineers
Ansel Adams talked about pre-visualisation as the foundation of his photographic method. He could see the final print before making the exposure, knowing exactly what the image would look like after development and printing. Not just approximately but precisely. The vision came first, complete and detailed, and the technical process existed to manifest that internal …
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The Four Kinds of Photography (And Why Their Collapse Is More Dangerous Than AI)
Photography isn’t one thing anymore. It hasn’t been for a while, but we’re still using the same word for fundamentally different activities, which creates confusion about what’s happening to the medium and why it matters. There are four distinct categories of photography now, defined by who makes the image and who consumes it. Understanding these …
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Kodak DC200 (ca. 1998-1999)
Josh Warner posted on Substack photos he took with a Kodak DC210A he bought for next to nothing on a flee market. This was a version of my first digital camera (mine was a DC200) I bought with one of my first salaries in the UK as I was working on a post doc project. …