Category: Tutorial
A study on a particular topic with an explanation or evaluation on how it works or what it does. Tutorials are intended to convey learnings, which it is hoped, are correct.
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Ethical Representation in Photography
in: Tutorial
A photograph can be a powerful communications vehicle. It can communicate across languages, cultures and time. The message communicated can be tuned by the choices a photographer makes; how they choose to represent the subject at hand. The question then becomes how true is that message being conveyed? Does it accurately and fully represent the…
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How I Made Starry Night
The steps I went through to create the image I posted Wednesday were: See my experience report to read the details.
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How I Made Starry Night
This is an experience report–not a final tutorial–on how I made the image Starry Night, posted earlier this week. The step that remains to be completed is to finalize the tools to process the night-sky images. For this image I used one photograph, which was sufficient for this purpose, but for something more professional, more…
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Combining Images
This tutorial describes how I took 3 flawed photographs and combined them using Photoshop into one portrait of my grandchildren. Anyone who has tried to take a picture of young children understands how difficult it is to get them to settle down. So, my approach was to take lots of shots, with the expectation of…
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Photo-essayists
In the 1950s, Robert Frank and William Klein emerged as pioneering figures in documentary photography, reshaping the established norms of the genre, as practiced, for example, Dorothea Lang and Walker Evans. Their styles — how they composed photographs and the techniques of lighting, grain, sharpness — stood in stark contrast and offered a fresh perspective…