Your camera may be a computer (sort of), but that doesn't mean it's as smart as you are
written by: Mark DubovoyIn recent years, image-capture devices such as cameras, lenses, and digital backs have continued to improve at a very fast pace. Post-capture software tools also have shown dramatic improvements. It appears to me that as a result of these two trends, more and more photographers are becoming lazy, developing a laissez faire attitude about the capture process. There is a tendency to set the camera to autofocus, auto exposure, auto-image stabilization, auto everything, and just point and release the shutter. I constantly hear that no matter what the problem is with the original capture, it can always be fixed later in Read more »
PHOTO Techniques, Sept/Oct 2008
written by: Mark DubovoySomething momentous has happened with the development of digital photography: For the first time since photography was invented, we have the capability to preserve original images without any deterioration for extremely long periods of time. Perhaps forever. The negative in the shoebox Most PHOTO Techniques readers know that storing negatives or transparencies in a shoebox is a bad idea. These boxes usually are acidic, do nothing to control temperature and humidity, and can lead to damaging physical pressure from having the originals on top of each other. All of these factors lead to premature decay and damage to precious originals. Read more »
written by: Mark DubovoyA writer and critic for the New York Times once told me that every landscape picture worth taking had already been taken. He also claimed that landscape photographers continued in a futile quest to get farther and farther away, to more difficult and inaccessible places, only to return with images that looked basically the same as prior work. I could not disagree more with both statements. I personally feel that any notion that all landscape images worth capturing have already been captured is absolutely preposterous. I am also a strong believer that in spite of the gross overpopulation and pollution Read more »
