Fotonotes Introduction
Fotonotes is a blog of personal reflections on photography. There is not particular theme or aspect of photography that will narrow the discussion, rather, I am interested in all manifestations of...
View ArticleConceiving the Image
Photographers are seekers. The images they make are a juxtaposition of a moment, a place, imagination and light – framed-up and sealed in the exposure. Regardless of pre- or post-visualization, the...
View ArticleKnowing the possibilities of digital manipulation
Understanding the characteristics of the photographic medium has always been essential for a photographer in order to imagine the possibilities. A key concept for beginning photography students is...
View ArticleCreating the Image -
Previewing the options Photographers used Polaroids for many years to preview an exposure. It wasn’t instantaneous, but it gave a quick two-dimensional rendering of the scene. Unfortunately that...
View ArticleLets take the digital out of photography
Ever since the first sensor was mass produced we have been considering and analyzing the differences between the use of film to darken silver grains compared to the use of a CCD to record light. In...
View ArticleMichael Snow – Disrupting the Suspension of Disbelief, Part I
Part 1: Simultaneous compression. When we pick up a camera and frame a composition in the viewfinder, we do so with a number of key assumptions about what happens when we press the shutter button and...
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