Shooting Raw Is About Insecurity, Not Possibilities
The justification photographers reach for when defending raw files is technical: more latitude, recoverable highlights, adjustable white balance. Sound in principle, largely…
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Photography Chain of Custody Experiment #2
After mentioning this idea of somehow being able to authenticate the source of a photo, I’ve implemented and tested the idea. Here…
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Photography Chain of Custody Experiment
Projects change. Photographs move from person to person, from tool to tool. A crime-scene photo passes from the investigator’s camera to a…
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The Best Camera Is Not The One You Have With You
The saying has earned its place through repetition: the best camera is the one you have with you. There’s obvious sense in…
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GAS Lives Between Expectation and Reality
Gear Acquisition Syndrome operates on a simple mechanism: attributing the limitations in my work to the limitations of my tools. When I…
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The Life of Others
I took this photo a good while back. I was arriving in Paris by train, and a commuter train overtook us (for…
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May is Mental Health Month
On paper, photography looks like a bad coping strategy. You take a heavy thing with you out the door, walk around, and…
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Separating the Photograph from Its Birth
Photographers will tell you a good photograph needs to stand on its own. No explanation, no supporting text; what’s in the frame…
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Never Delete Any Photo
Digital photography gave us something film never had: an instant undo button for our own judgement. See an image on the back…
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Faces Don’t Matter
We’re wired to look for faces. Show someone a photograph with people in it and their eyes go straight to the faces,…
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