What I’m doing right now is editing the May shooting, from both China and Myanmar. After the Yunnan Spring workshop in Shuhe, near Lijiang, I drove down to Dali for some days (more writing than shooting), then on to Kunming to catch the flight to Yangon. The reason was to join the team for the [...]
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Over on the Observations page, we look at why the first photography assignment in the first course, The Art of Photography, is about finding contrast in subjects or subject qualities. And with a little bit of the history of the Bauhaus thrown in.
Here, I’d like to explore the idea of contrast further. The course...
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The first Assignment in the first of the OCA Photography course, The Art of Photography, is an exercise in finding and photographing contrasting qualities. There’s a particular purpose here, and it is intended to set the tone for the course. Deliberately, this first assignment has nothing to do with camera mechanics, or lenses, or...
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Black and white photography has been quietly revolutionised by going digital. One way has been its easy availability — far from needing different procedures and the conscious decision before going out to shoot to load a different kind of film in the camera, black and white has become, technically at least, a post-production decision....
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This is really a strange term when I think about it, and would have had no meaning at all before digital. With film you could push-process, or over-develop, or cross-process, but you couldn’t meaningfully over-process. But now you certainly can. Caffeinated processing has become the new standard for some photographers. Read more on Over-processing…
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