Shooting Raw Is About Insecurity, Not Possibilities
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The justification photographers reach for when defending raw files is technical: more latitude, recoverable highlights, adjustable white balance. Sound in principle, largely irrelevant in practice for photographers making personal work rather than delivering to clien
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Photography Chain of Custody Experiment
Projects change. Photographs move from person to person, from tool to tool. A crime-scene photo passes from the investigator’s camera to a forensic analyst’s workstation to a prosecutor’s presentation software. A heritage digitisation travels from the conservat
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The Best Camera Is Not The One You Have With You
The saying has earned its place through repetition: the best camera is the one you have with you. There’s obvious sense in it, and a significant problem with it.
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GAS Lives Between Expectation and Reality
Gear Acquisition Syndrome operates on a simple mechanism: attributing the limitations in my work to the limitations of my tools. When I look at my photographs and feel dissatisfied, it’s easier to blame the camera than to blame my seeing, my timing, my compositiona
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May is Mental Health Month
On paper, photography looks like a bad coping strategy. You take a heavy thing with you out the door, walk around, and come back with the same weight plus some pictures. But it works. Everyone who shoots knows this, and we tend to give the same reasons: it distracts
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Separating the Photograph from Its Birth
Photographers will tell you a good photograph needs to stand on its own. No explanation, no supporting text; what’s in the frame is what you get. If the image only works when you explain it, the thinking goes, it has already failed.
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Never Delete Any Photo
Digital photography gave us something film never had: an instant undo button for our own judgement. See an image on the back of the camera, decide it fails, press delete, and it’s gone. Film made destruction harder; you could bin a print, but the negative sat in its sleeve unless you went out of
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Faces Don’t Matter
We’re wired to look for faces. Show someone a photograph with people in it and their eyes go straight to the faces, searching for expression, emotion, identity. This reflex runs deep enough that many photographers treat it as photographic law: people in the frame means visible faces. It doesn’t
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Teaching Photography #7: Keeping Gear in Its Place
The ongoing challenge in teaching photography to a young person is protecting them from gear culture. Marketing is sophisticated and pervasive. Social media shows photographers with expensive equipment. Friends will get newer, better cameras. The pressure to upgrade is constant.
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The Book That Started as a Newsletter
I recently reviewed my library of posts and it gave me an idea. What began here as a random series of posts about photography turned into something different as I went through them: an argument about the last two centuries of human record-keeping, about what it cost us to have a medium we trusted a
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