Before the new cell phones, I had several 35mm film cameras, digital point & shoot cameras and eventually splurged for a DSLR. The two P&S models were a Panasonic DMC-LS...
17 April, 2023
darktable Mini-Review – A Quick look at my Favorite Software
darktable is open source image workflow software. Open source means it’s free, both in terms of cost (in this case and many others, but not all), and in terms of what you ...
I started my film photography journey with a Canon QL25 — a slower sibling of the popular QL17 GIII 35mm rangefinder. Unfortunately, my old QL's lightmeter wasn't working, so I ...
25 October, 2021
Contrast and Tonality Part 2: The Curves Tool, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Contrast – 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 ...
20 September, 2021
Contrast and Tonality Part 1: Histograms of Famous Photographs and What They Can Teach Us – 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...
31 July, 2020
Grain2Pixel Review – A Photoshop Plugin for Converting Negatives – By Arild Edvard Båsmo
Today I am going to review a new piece of software, or rather a plugin to Adobe Photoshop called Grain2Pixel, which can convert scans of negative film into positive images. It c...
What do you think of the 6 images below? Are they film or digital. Some of them are film (obviously digitised), and some of them are digital, some of which have been made to loo...