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Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann is the founder of the Luminous Landscape. Michael passed away in May 2016. Since its inception in 1999 LuLa has become the world's largest site devoted to the art, craft, and technology of photography. Each month more than one million people from every country on the globe visit LuLa.

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Understanding USM

By: Dale Cotton (glib tongue)and Brian D. Buck (penetrating insight) Fuzzy Concepts of Sharp Pictures Apparently, I have not been alone in feeling that the...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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January 13, 2009

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6 minutes read


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Understanding MTF Charts

Do I Really Need to Know This Stuff? Actually, yes, you do. Pay attention. It’s important 🙂 You especially do if you’re one of those...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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January 13, 2009

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Understanding Resolution

Digital vs. Analog The traditional analog world was easy to understand. Negatives and prints were continuous tone and one simply made an enlargement from the negative or...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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January 13, 2009

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8 minutes read


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Understanding Contrast Masking

About three years ago I wrote a tutorial on contrast masking. It was published before I had started to use digital cameras, and was intended for use...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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January 13, 2009

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4 minutes read


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Seminar Review Art Wolfe’s “The Art of Composition”

Recently, I had the pleasure of attending Art Wolfe’sThe Art of Compositionseminar in New York. Mr. Wolfe is currently presenting in a number of cities...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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January 13, 2009

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Digital Split

By: Steve Kossack A Photoshop Split ND Replacement       Gates of the Valley‚ Yosemite National Park 1999 I’ve been working digitally for several years now...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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January 13, 2009

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Pinhole

By:David F. Stein Pinhole imagery may be photographyís equivalent of drawing with chalk.   Simple. Cheap.   Accessible to anyone.   Capable of astonishing, sophisticated...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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January 13, 2009

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Storage & Archiving

  The Storage & ArchivingOf Digital Images This article represents my practice as of the Summer of 2000. Where to Put Those Megabytes When I...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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January 13, 2009

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8 minutes read