Photografica Blog
MissingMissed
For some reason I've been thinking about my missing brother today. His name was Greg, and he disappeared while traveling in India in 1995. He was 36 at the time. And so I thought I'd link to a hypertext I made a few years back when I was in university. [...]
PMA Australia 2007
I wish I was going... It's in Melbourne next weekend. If you've never heard of it, PMA Australia 2007 is a huge imaging technology expo, and being held in conjunction with it this year are the AIPP national awards. I have entered a few prints and hopefully I will be [...]
The hardest thing you’ll ever do…
Me and my son Eddie, and a shot entitled Sit Still. I can only speak for myself of course, but for me parenting is the hardest thing I've ever had to do. Not that it's all bad. Actually, it's mostly really, really good. But it's damn hard, and there are [...]
The Political Compass
This is a great idea. The standard one dimensional idea of the left to right political spectrum is hopelessly inadequate. The Political compass sets values across two scales, one social and one economic. This presents a much more accurate idea of where an individual stands politically. I do this quiz [...]
Is photo critique dead?
This leads directly from my last post, as I got to thinking more about the idea that the framework (the website) is not nearly as influential to the way we look at and discuss photography as the user. Certainly the Internet and the overflow of digital imagery that we are [...]
The aptly named Flickr
I sniffed around the edges of Flickr for several years. At first I didn't really get how it operated, then I didn't feel I had a need for it, and I found it overly large (and that was several years ago). Maybe it was a small thing like the design [...]
UPDIG
If you don't know, UPDIG stands for UNIVERSAL PHOTOGRAPHIC DIGITAL IMAGING GUIDELINES. This is a set of guidelines developed for digital imaging by the UPDIG Working Group, descibed on their website as "A working group of digital imaging professionals and allied trade groups and manufacturers, dedicated to promoting worldwide standards [...]
In search of ultimate image quality
Photography is not a poor man's hobby. It can be of course, but it's one of those things that the more money you throw at it, the better the image quality becomes. That says nothing of technical or artistic merit fortunately, as that's where the poor man can have his [...]
Flash Photography with Canon EOS Cameras
I'd forgotten about this. I downloaded it last year, meaning to read it, but never got to it, and then forgot. But if you have a Canon digital camera and a flash unit, then this article is definitely for you. I'd imagine it would have to be the most comprehensive [...]
Canon EOS Digital Photo Guidebook for Professionals
Just to show I'm not anti Canon (ha ha, that sounds like a space weapon doesn't it), I ran across this publication on the net and it looks really good. It's a largish pdf (7.6MB), aimed at the professional digital EOS shooter. That's a pretty big target market, and I'm [...]