Photography News June 19, 2023
Quote: “Of course, I hear that I must have a marvellous lens or extraordinary camera – instead of a lens with shutter and all for 20 pesos, and a camera quite gone to ruin! Not many realize that good photographs – like anything else – are made with one’s brains.” – Edward Weston
Articles:
A Photo I’ve dreamt of… – good example of how to ‘work’ a subject
Composition Case Study: Analyzing Arnold Newman’s Photo of Igor Stravinsky
The Worst Photography Advice I’ve ever heard…
How I Capture Great Images in Bad Conditions – Alex Armitage
Thought for the day: Photography is a subtractive art and painting is additive art
In photography you move the camera trying to remove/subtract distractions from your image. In paintings they can add an interesting path or tree in exactly the right spot. Generative AI makes it easy to make additive “photographs”. You can make an additive photograph using Photoshop or similar tools, but that is harder. And it is the ease, I think, that make some photographers unhappy with this new capability.
Artist of the Week: The Tragic Story of Photographer Bob Carlos Clarke
The content of this blog post done in collaboration with one of our members, Greg Edwards: http://gregoryedwards.slickpic.site
