Finishing a final…
By no means have I been teaching long. But my first semester was the Fall after I graduated from college. Since then, I’ve taught the same Photography 101 class four…
By no means have I been teaching long. But my first semester was the Fall after I graduated from college. Since then, I’ve taught the same Photography 101 class four…
Jeff here has always made it a professional goal to combat “staleness” at every opportunity. Sometimes that means loading up a Brownie camera and going and shooting 120 film for…
My advanced photography class this semester has been extraordinary. It has been like the all-stars of all my past Photography 101 classes all at once. And that makes for a…
Ile-a-Vache, Haiti – March 2013 . . . Part 2 is next… Stay tuned… -Noah D.
If you fly with Delta Airlines to Port-au-Prince, you will typically be subject to a lengthy layover in New York City. Gee… how painful… There’s no lack of chat on…
“Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.” ~Louis Kahn I’ve always wanted to be present for a moment in history where, until then,…
Today was studio day in my photography class. Being that it is supposedly “advanced” photography, I turn the students loose in an “advanced” studio environment. Umbrellas, softboxes, parabolic reflectors, and…
We took a break during filming a little promotional today to let classes change and get the reverberations in the atrium in which we filmed down to anything other than…
After long shoots like these, just as much time is spent in the working of the photos. I try not to need all that much editing, but I look over…
So, I learned early on in photography that backgrounds are a significant part of the photograph. It is basic Photo 101 stuff to talk about “mergers” and distracting backgrounds. Now,…
I teach a Junior-level photography/photojournalism class at the University. Today we Skyped one of my good friends, Philip Holsinger. I think it is a positive sign when the class dismisses…
They concern me. Greatly. For most black & white conversions, I do simple things. Silver Efex is really great for fine-tuning black and white for large prints, but it’s kind…