2011
PhotoPlus 2011 - Jack Hollingsworth
03/11/11 11:19 Filed in: Business
Notes from a seminar on social media marketing by Jack Hollingsworth at PhotoPlus Expo 2011. Read More...
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PhotoPlus 2011 - Art Streiber
03/11/11 11:19 Filed in: Business
Notes from a seminar on editorial photography by Art Strieber at PhotoPlus Expo 2011. Read More...
PhotoPlus 2011 - Creative longevity
03/11/11 11:15 Filed in: Business
Notes from a panel of career photography professionals on creative longevity at PhotoPlus Expo 2011. Read More...
PhotoPlus 2011 - Blake Discher
01/11/11 11:55 Filed in: Business
Notes from a seminar on business and negotiating by Blake Discher at PhotoPlus Expo 2011. Read More...
Suddenly, ten years later...
12/09/11 22:15 Filed in: Opinion
Ten years ago, I was head down buried in work and stress launching The Wire, an ill-fated picture paper that's now chiefly notable as the first all digital photodesk in Trinidad and Tobago. Read More...
Open wide
15/08/11 23:10 Filed in: Technique
Messing with the panoramics. How I evolved an approach to really, really wide photos. Read More...
Digital storage, 1994
08/08/11 23:12 Filed in: Opinion
Now all those photos are essentially useless, hopelessly crushed JPEGS from marginal sensors mangled by overly aggressive algorithms in the early cameras we trusted with our work.
Back then, this was a top of the line model, offering whopping 8X speeds, so much faster than the CDs of the day.
Now it's just a reminder that technology marches on, briskly and inexorably and today's hot new technology is tomorrow's head-scratching curiosity. An artifact of a digital history that seems far more archaic than mere years would seem to indicate.
What makes a photographer?
25/07/11 21:12 Filed in: Opinion
Thoughts on how my career and the influences I encoutered shaped the photographs I've taken over the last 30 years. Read More...
Newspaper photodesks will feel the web's sting first
18/07/11 22:15 Filed in: Opinion
We've been looking at the diminishing quality of newsrooms but it's beginning to looks like local photodesks lost the capacity to attract talent long ago. Read More...
Controlling your RAW
13/06/11 21:47 Filed in: Technique
Why shoot RAW? Why convert to DNG? My own answers to some of these questions. Read More...
Film: Cuatro Hero
30/05/11 20:06 Filed in: Technique
Detail photos from a photo session with cuatrist Robert Munro reveal as much about the performer as his face did int he final story. Read More...
Film: Walcott
23/05/11 23:10 Filed in: Technique
A project with Derek Walcott two decades ago yielded a portrait of the poet and playwright that was reproduced many times during the 1980's. Read More...
Photoshop: Metamorphosis
16/05/11 22:20 Filed in: Technique
More film photography and early Photoshop work. Images for the Metamorphosis Dance Company and the approach I took to five years worth of posters created along with artist and designer Peter Shim. Read More...
Film: Minshall - Donkey Derby
09/05/11 21:02 Filed in: Technique
In a look back at some film photography, I explore the back story of a memorable photograph of Carnival bandleader Peter Minshall. Read More...
Womanwise - Gabrielle Hosein
25/04/11 22:13 Filed in: Technique
Shooting Gabrielle Hosein in broad daylight with strobe. Read More...
Womanwise - Sarah Jane
04/04/11 23:58 Filed in: Technique
Race driver Sarah Jane Gopaul takes me for a breathtaking ride in her hotrod car. Read More...
Photographing Carnival
14/03/11 22:26 Filed in: Opinion
The photography of Carnival is becoming dangerously homogenous. Read More...
Scanning film
31/01/11 23:09 Filed in: Technique
Womanwise - Lorna Henry
24/01/11 21:46 Filed in: Technique