Photografica Blog
Pre-visualisation and pre-production
With many types of photography (studio and art photography particularly come to mind) the value of pre-visualisation and pre-production is enormous. Many photographers starting out don't spend enough time on the preparation side of a shoot, and it's often in that prep work that the value of a photograph is [...]
what is important?
I saw this photo on the web tonight (click for a larger version), and it arrested my thoughts immediately. I have had a really shitty day, but when I looked at this image of the Sombrero Galaxy, 28 million light years away (1 light year is roughly 10 trillion kilometres [...]
DSLR Wireless Monitor
This DSLR wireless monitor takes the video or still photo feed from any DSLR camera or video camera and sends it wirelessly to a seven inch or 10″ portable, battery powered monitor. Pretty cool really. Read about it at www.robertbenson.com/blog
star ratings
Star ratings are one of the two most powerful tools we have in our digital workflow (the other being keywords)! Suck that sentence up for a few seconds. Do you know why? Basically, it’s because with keywords and star ratings, a database (catalog software, Lightroom library module etc) can sort [...]
The role of ambiguity in visual communication
I’ve been interested in all forms of communication for as long as I remember. From songs, stories, poems, books, movies, photographs and other visual arts, I was always engaging in art and story. But not all forms of communication are the same. Anything but, in [...]
dpbestflow.org
I have to admit, I am seriously impressed with the Digital Photography Workflow website dpbestflow.org. An initiative of the American Society of Media Photographers and funded by the American Library of Congress, it is a fantastic resource for all digital photographers worldwide. It is mainly the work of Richard Anderson [...]
Workflow / Workslow?
Let’s face it – digital photography is a whole new world when it comes to workflow. Analogue was a simple affair in some ways. Of course, the bar was also a lot higher in some areas. You actually had to get it right “in camera” a skill that many photographers [...]
flickrSLiDR
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. I have been playing with my new iPhone all weekend, and digging around on the net for useful apps and the like. During my travels I came across this very useful little slide show app, not necessarily for the iPhone, but it's getting to the point [...]
CreativeLIVE
Unless you've been living under a rock lately, you've probably heard that Chase Jarvis has once again come up with a great idea (his last one was The Best Phone...) CreativeLIVE is a new website that is going to offer FREE live presentations (I hate the word webinars) on all [...]
Photography resources for photography nuts
I spend a fair bit... OK, OK, ... a lot of time on the Internet. My interests are very wide ranging from sport to the arts to politics, but photography definitely takes the lions share of my attention. Recently, I've had a lot of people asking me about which sites [...]