Photography For Your Soul

Photography

Jan

What’s Seen

Posted by Ed Hamlin at 11:17 pm

Fotografie is about seeing the truth in the moment. Since most of my photographs are of people I am looking for the truth in their moment.

When I go to places where people have been I look at the truth of what has been left behind. Why it has been left behind, I leave that conclusion for others.

Route 66

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Jan

Mirrorless Cameras are the new Range Finders

Posted by Ed Hamlin at 2:07 pm

Recently the discussion resurfaced on the future of DSLR via “Photography on the couch” a blog post written in November of 2011. The ideas and thoughts expressed in the post are not new and existed even during the 1970’s and the advent of the compact 35mm camera. What I find interesting is the topic rises to the surface every time there is a significant change in photography. Wet plate, film on acetate then polyester, 35 mm camera, digital camera, mirror-less, and who knows what the next innovation will be. They are all changes. People have a difficult time with change. The artist though is the one who is least affected by change because they look at it as another instrument to use in their repertoire to create.

The art of photography is no longer the primary art form it used to be. The beginning involved chemicals, glass, metal. The photographer was more a chemist that an artist. The advent of film brought a change not only to the photograph itself but to the camera also. The camera evolved from a large wooden box to a light and compact instrument of creation, which evolved even further with the ability to quickly change the lens to a shorter or longer focal lengths. The mirror-less camera is not a new idea, the rangefinder is the birthplace for the idea. So why is there so much hullabaloo over the Nikon, and other mirror-less cameras entering the world. (more…)

Oct

News on Lightroom and Photoshop – Corrections

Posted by Ed Hamlin at 10:39 pm

Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom are probably the most valuable tools at the disposal of digital and film photographers. Yes there are a plethora of other platforms that can be used to edit digital photographs. Since I am not a Mac user I can’t speak to Aperture or other programs for Macs or PCs. All software has it’s pluses and minuses. I’ll add, there are dozens of sources you will hear about the latest new on PS and LR.

Well I have given the subject of digital and film photography a lot of thought lately and decided that I would add Adobe news releases to my blog posts. I am not an expert; in fact, I imagine that about 90 percent of PS and LR users know more than I do. I like to get what I want in the camera. It is how I learned back 1969, if you didn’t get it in the camera you were sunk. Yes you could manipulate certain aspects in the darkroom when you made the print. If you were short on experience and you got it in one try you were luck, if you didn’t you spent hours and several attempts to get what you wanted. Well I use PS and LR for that purpose. The programs have become my darkroom. I have scans done of any film I have shot mostly 6×7, and then work with the negatives until they produce the print I want. (more…)

Sep

Black & White

Posted by Ed Hamlin at 12:56 am

I made an observation while viewing some black and white (B&W) photographs today. Many of them looked like a color photo without the color. Creating a black and white photograph is an art. I think it takes more work to create relevant B&W photograph than color (don’t beat me up over this, it is just an opinion).

I think it comes bit more naturally to me these days versus my first attempt. My first roll of film ever shot was Pan plus in a Kodak range finder at the age of nine or ten. I was told to expose the roll wisely. When I saw the negatives after the final rinse, I was disappointed with the results. A side note – I had to learn how to develop B&W film and make prints before I create my first exposure. I think it was my dad’s way of not developing his own film. (more…)