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25 October, 2021

Contrast and Tonality Part 2: The Curves Tool, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Contrast – By Sroyon

By Sroyon

In Part 1 of this three-part series, I used histograms of famous photographs to introduce some fundamental ideas about contrast and tonality. In this part I’ll talk about ...

12 October, 2021

Wet Collodion Geekery – Some Tips and Tricks – By Markus Hoffstätter

By Markus Hofstätter

I have recently produced a series of videos that geek out on and provide various tips and tricks about various elements of the wet plate photography process, so thought I would ...

20 September, 2021

Contrast and Tonality Part 1: Histograms of Famous Photographs and What They Can Teach Us – By Sroyon

By Sroyon

Let’s face it, “analysing” photos with histograms can only take us so far. A hundred years later, people may or may not look at your photographs and gasp in ad...

29 August, 2021

Juggling Parenting and Film Photography – by Richard McKenzie

By Richard McKenzie

It’s a cliché but it’s true: everything changes the moment you become a parent. There’s the stuff they tell you about—the crying, the nappies, the many, many sleepless nights—an...

18 August, 2021

Joys and Challenges of Publishing Zines – By Floyd K. Takeuchi

By Floyd

I thought I knew a thing or two about publishing a zine. In a previous life, I ran a Honolulu, Hawaii-based media company that published six monthly consumer magazines. We cove...

16 August, 2021

Picking your Color Negative Film Stock – An Alternative Approach – By Matt Wright

By Matthew Wright

The film community is a high point of the internet. Coming back to film after a 20+ year hiatus was facilitated by all of the excellent work that has been done over the last few...

9 August, 2021

A Calculator for Pinhole Camera Design – by Sroyon

By Sroyon

Two main factors determine how a pinhole camera “sees” – that is, whether its angle of view is wide, normal or tele. The first is the sensor size (throughout ...

1 August, 2021

How to use a Modern Flash Gun with a Leica M3, M2 and M1 – By Phong Nguyen

By Phong Nguyen

Photographers using Leica M film cameras often say that they do not need flash and prefer to shoot in ambient light. However, if you go through websites related to Leica, the su...

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