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Agree with Walter. For what I shoot, I'd darken the corners anyway.

Not necessary. It only has to be dim enough to keep the rods activated, and each rod is digital--on or off. That's why USAAF crews used red lights in the ready room before nighttime...

Well, those who are engaged in creating totally non-realistic work, perhaps.

I think asking about gender may be more germane. I sell almost exclusively to women. Not by intention, but that's who makes the purchase decision.

As far as age, I'm marketing to people in their...

Another of those stupid university studies. Of course people who saw a different photograph had a different recollection of what they saw. Did it really take a "study" to figure that out? Of...

Yep. That's because the light reflected to the camera to form the image is the light between what is behind the camera and where the main light source is coming from.

Let's say not only did you...

I'm of the opinion that most of the public does not care.

If we can find a circumstance where a nature photographer or a nature photography publication was discovered to have fudged an image and...

I did not note that at all (but I'm not going to go through all the posts to prove it one way or another). If any particular ones caught your attention, you could quote them.

But here are a...

I agree with Jiri. No digital storage solution is utterly permanent (in fact, chiseling your images in stone isn't even absolutely permanent). All digital storage solutions should be considered...

I could probably buy this. I heavily retouch my portraits, but I don't like the use of Corel Paint and such to make them look as though they were painted. I prefer the work--though retouched--to be...

Is a perfect sculpture--with no addition or interpretation of "eggness" by the sculptor--of an egg art? Necessarily art? Or is it craftsmanship? Necessarily craftsmanship?

If that accurate...

With the exception of 18-year-olds and their breasts, I've not yet met a woman who really wanted to see anything on her portrait that had appeared within the immediately previous five years.


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It doesn't seem to have affected the general public very much. It didn't even follow him to his Wikipedia entry. I suspect the range of people who felt their "trust" had been "violated" was very...

That, then goes to Gordon's concept of marketing.

If the photographer working in the "honest style" believes he has created the superior work, then he can point that out in the same way the...

Wait, now, are you saying that every showing or publication of the work must be accompanied by a written treatise of how it was created?

Hmm. Should Dali or Magritte have accompanied their work...

Or the same concepts appeared in another form under a different name. The uniquely photographic portrait styles of Hollywood photographers in the first half of the 20th century were genuinely...

Accurate "seeing" and painting what one really sees would produce converging verticals in a painting. A white horse illuminated only by skylight really is blue.

Presuming by "craft" you're talking strictly about the mechanical creation and presentation of the final display image (as opposed to timing, lighting, subject placement, et cetera, at the time of...

I only use air to clean out brushes. I momentarily ground the negative to the enlarger, brush it slowly, ground it again, and polish it with an Ilford Antistaticum.

Are you saving the original scan, the PSD, and a final TIFF?

Unless you have a client who demands a TIFF, I wouldn't save that. Save the original scan, save the layered PSD (if you think you'd...

If it was kept refrigerated, it's not a problem. 'Way back in the early 70s when I was a poor student I used old--but refrigerated--color paper all the time. I'd trust an established store if they...

Don't obsess over it.

Cold storage is long-term storage. If you're going to use it within the year, just keeping it at normal human-comfort temperatures is okay. The expiration date on the...

As said before, those negatives were commonly very heavily retouched--in many cases with women you're not seeing a single square millimeter of the actress's own skin.

Moreover, the negatives were...

That's just for xenon or florescent, right? You wouldn't need it with tungsten or halogen, I'd think.

California sunbounce are the ticket--they're rigid but you will need a California sun BOUNCER to hold them for you in a wind.

Marko,



For a lot of people, add a scanner to that and then nearly everything you mentioned for digital processing.

Or add enlarging capability to the darkroom...and color enlarging...

Tone, then mix spotting colors to match the tone.

I agree with Robert. I used big Pako drum dryers all through the 70s and half the 80s. They were cranky and power-voracious. They took a long time to get to proper temperature. For constant...

Have a camera with you. Any camera. The camera you have with you is 1000% better than one you don't have with you.

And keeping the cooler in the trunk is better than keeping the cooler in the passenger compartment, if the car with cooler will be parked in the sun a significant length of time.

You will find your answer, one way or another, at a home store. There are a number of possibilities.

You can find plastic and rubber sink drain mats in the kitchen department.

You can find...

This was a big issue when I was road cycling heavily. People were spending big, big bucks on titanium everything--measuring every gram saved if this steel screw or that steel screw on the bike was...

There are two parts to the issue. Both have been addressed, but not as discrete considerations...rather as "right" and "wrong."

First is the technical/practical/material consideration. If you...

What the judge is saying is that the basic act of taking a photograph is not an "enumerated right" specifically protected by the Constitution as are, for example, the freedom of the press and the...

"Right to access" is the point of the case you raised. You're claiming that for any person or the government to limit any photographer's "right to access" to any venue is the same thing as an...

A. You're still concatenating action and expression. No judge is going to rule that every possible action is protected because it might lead to an "expression."
B. It's not even true that every...

That's true, too. No particular conduct in general is protected. Context always counts.

The particular case being cited is a non issue.

If I rent the local colisium for a event, I have the right to exclude anyone not specifically invited. Period. No uninvited photographer has a...

I'm satisfied with my site as it now exists for computers. It is mostly HTML, does have some spot flash, but loads quickly, is easy to navigate from any page, gets good search engine results, yada,...

I've bought both medium and large format equipment from them, and found even their Bargain-rated items (most of what I've bought from them) to be in excellent shape. I've bought "bargain" LF lenses...