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4 Seasons

Introduction Since the dawn of photography photographers have struggled with skies. Much of the time they are flat, devoid of clouds, gray, boring……. you get...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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October 13, 2013

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Butterflies - A Canon D60 Macro Portfolio

Butterfly 48, Niagara Ontario – April, 2002 Canon EOS-D60 and Canon 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM. ISO 800. 1/90 sec @ f/2.8 handheld Well, almost free....
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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October 13, 2013

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The Craft Approach: Is Large Format Really Best?

By Mike Johnston Illustrated with photographs by Carl Weese (Originally published in Camera & Darkroommagazine) Introduction — 2001  This is surely one of the strangest...
Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston

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October 13, 2013

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Bombay Taxi

It’s easy to make a ‘good’ picture of something. It’s harder to do it twice. Or thrice. Or say, fifty times. That’s what any photographer...
Azhar Chougle

Azhar Chougle

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October 13, 2013

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You Can't Do That

Giraffe Beetle, Madagascar  A tiny denizen of the Eastern Rainforest I hear some things can’t be shot with medium format. Wildlife moves too quickly, the...
James Martin

James Martin

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October 13, 2013

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My Own Private Rhino

African Travelers, photographers and non-photographers alike all have a check list, lions, elephants, leopards, rhino’s and so on down the list of Disney animals, those...
Chris Johnston

Chris Johnston

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October 13, 2013

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Why Photographs Work - a Review

One of the most influential books about photographs has been Ansel Adams’s 1983Examples : The Making of 40 Photographs. Though now nearly 30 years old...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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October 13, 2013

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4 minutes read


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Rationalizing the Irrational

The Background On May 20, 2011, some eight months after it was first introduced at photokina, Sigma announced the price and availability of its new flagship camera,...
Michael Reichmann

Michael Reichmann

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October 13, 2013

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