Category: Philosophy of Photography
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No Cure, only Treatment. My 2020 Relapse.
I could have caught the last hour of light today and shot in empty streets filled with soft mist. Instead, I chose to write this post. Every time I want to start looking at new toys, I should read it to myself.
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Finding My Focal Lengths
I wrote yesterday about the process of selecting the lenses I use on my M mount cameras. A lot of that dealt with how I ended up with 50mm and 90mm lenses, and how they proved not to work for me. My original plan for my four lenses were four lenses split over two sets…
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The Four Lens Kit, a retrospective
As a software hacker, I was always taught the value of taking a historical look at ones decisions during a project, in order to improve either the next stage of that project, or the next project entirely. For that reason, I feel compelled to critique my lens decisions over the last two and a half…
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The 12 Book Program
Hello everyone. My name is Emily, and I’m an addict. It has been nearly three days since I bought my last photobook. Every day I face further temptation, and I almost bought three more yesterday. It’s affecting my whole life, I don’t talk to anyone anymore, I just sit and read them. Thinking back so…
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Be More Artist
I think it’s still fair to say that I’m a long way from calling myself an artist, much less an accomplished one. But I’ve been trying to put effort recently into shooting more, and shooting more constructively. A lot of my work to date has been the result of aimless wandering; no goal as to…