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  Some downsides of digital imaging

  Digital imaging has transformed photography in many ways, mostly for the better, as far as I am concerned. One downside of digital is that photo-educators, like me, are nurturing a generation of photographers who have never used film nor developed photos in a darkroom. The next generation will, by and large, have missed the magical experience of watching an image come up in the developer. That moment was what hooked me (and thousands of other photographers like me) on the magic of photography. I recently came to appreciate other downsides of digital imaging.

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  Mar 10
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  Impact of changing your focal length during long exposures

  This podcast explains how to change the focal length of your lens, to “zoom” during long exposures, in order to get interesting effects.

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  Jul 09
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  How I learned to critique photographs

  I was reviewing another photographer’s work recently. Left and right, I was tossing off suggestions for improving the images. Though I was thinking intensely about the work, I was largely unaware of my own process, as I critiqued the work. When she asked me how I had learned to critique images so fluidly, I was stopped in my tracks.

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  Jan 09
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  Interesting products

  In my own work, I have started working with the lensbabies, which I like a lot. These are a couple examples:

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  Aug 08