Random Snap: Jeff Bridges
Director Joel Coen with cinematographer Roger Deakins on location filming True Grit. Photo by Jeff Bridges. In keeping with Oscar Weekend, check out Jeff Bridges' behind-the-scenes panoramic photos of the making of True Grit. • • • Oh, and an...
Random Excellence: Roger Deakins
Since I saw True Grit I've been catching up on my Coen Brothers (I finally watched The Big Lebowski for the first time the other night), and I'll tell ya, if you're a black-and-white photographer you need to see The...
London Street Photography Show
By Bob Collins If you happen to live in London or within striking distance of it—or perhaps plan to travel there before the early autumn of this year—there's a show on you might want to see. "London Street Photography" at...
Random Snap: Can’t-Escape Cake
By Mike Plews Shooting from behind yellow police tape is a working reality for a local news photographer like me. So I was pretty tickled to get sent to cover the Hy Vee Food Store cake decorating challenge at the...
The Path to Freedom: My (Former) ‘Touch-Once’ Method
The subject of working methodology continues to fascinate me, so I hope you'll forgive me if I give it a little more air. I wanted to describe the methodology that I came up with after years of photographing and used...
We’re All Gonna Die!
By Ctein Don't panic. As Terry Pratchett's character, Death, is prone to note, you are going to die. But not necessarily at this moment. Following the theme of mortality over the past week, I thought I'd bring up another aspect...
‘Most Tourists Take Pictures from the Same Spot’
Corinne Vionnet, Saint Basil's Cathedral, Moscow Most of us are aware of the recent phenomenon of huge masses of photographs—many, many billions—being uploaded helter-skelter on the internet, leading me to wonder sometimes if the next great movement in photographic creativity...
OT: Music Notes
For those few TOP friends who a) likes the yazz, and b) are following along with any of our C60Crew shenanigans, I just posted my first cloudmix. It's called "Aggressively Humble" because it starts out with what Bob calls "the...
Ephemeral Art
We've been talking about obstacles to the survival of photographs, but, to take it to one more remove, consider that photographs, as ephemeral as they may be, are often used to try to preserve things that have even shorter lives....
Inkjet Print Survivability, Part II
Part I is here There are all sorts of impediments to print survivability, and how technically "archival" the print itself might be is only one facet of that. Prints can be lost; they get discarded; they can be maliciously destroyed...
Inkjet Print Survivability
I've noticed over the years that photographers and photography enthusiasts by and large are interested mainly in the technical aspects of print preservation: materials, deterioration, degradation by environmental factors, light-fading and color fastness, and so on. It's an issue in...
You Must By a Cartridge of Tape
...Richard Fee found this review of a Nikon F6 on Amazon, via R.O. Teague's twitter: Now, this could well be a joke, and probably is. But none of the guy's other reviews are ironic, sarcastic, or humorous, and just the...
