Admittedly, I live in the south. But, I grew up in the mountains and I love a good snow in the winter. I would not call our first snowfall ‘good’, but some is better than none for photography! The snow started very late in the day and was a…
I love the Leica Monochrom. Today I shot the Monochrom along side my Leica MP with TMax 100 loaded. Of course, I am way to slow to have any film developed yet, but the Monochrom made me feel like I was looking at well scanned negatives. I was on Main…
Light. Light is the essence of photography. Concentrated light can enhance and change the mood of many photographs. The absence of light can have the same mood altering effect. The creative fun in photography is learning which and when to use what kind of light! I pass an old Coca-cola…
First, this is not a review of the Leica Monochrom – there are many high quality reviews already completed. This is the beginning of a new series that is considerably more important than a review of a new camera. The Monochrom is a photographer’s tool unlike any other tool in…
This article is part of my series on the study of ‘The Photographer’s Eye’ by Micheal Freeman. In the last article we discussed the Golden Rule and it’s application in dividing a Frame. We found that such a division gave us both a point to place smaller objects on a…
The Photographer’s Eye by Michael Freeman is a superb text on learning to visualize an image with a camera and create art. In my introductory post I gave you an overview of the book and told you I would be creating a group of essays on the text, each with…
This article is part of my series on the study of ‘The Photographer’s Eye’ by Micheal Freeman. Michael Freeman starts out his book, The Photographer’s Eye, by defining the shape of the image we will spend the rest of our study discussing. We call this, the Frame Shape. When we…
This article is part of my series on the study of ‘The Photographer’s Eye’ by Micheal Freeman. On my recent trip to the west coast, I read a book I found in Barnes & Noble. The title caught my eye, but the content as I flipped it made me purchase…