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Scenic Fatigue Recently I’ve had occasion to think again about an idea for an article that I’ve been meaning to write for a long time....
Just to be Contrary As you may know, I’m a CIT (curmudgeon in training). As part of my program, I have to periodically post grumpy,...
Secrets of Success What does it take to succeed as a photographer? Here’s an empirical top ten, in order of importance. 1. Energy. Successful photographers,...
Happy Sunday You’d think a guy like me would have published a book by now. I have books in my bloodstream. I’ve always read, hoarded,...
A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston © Mike Johnston 2002 Fog, photograph by Glenn Gordon Good Morning! One of the pleasures and benefits of writing this...
A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston Kustomizing Kameras Photographers know that there are two kinds of screwmount‚ Leica (39mm) and Pentax (42mm, and actually a German...
Moving Pictures In response to last week’s column I received this e-mail from a reader named Steve Jantscher: I’m sure I won’t be the only...
Where the HECK is Digital B&W?!? I’m a CIT (Curmudgeon-in-Training), so I have lots of pet peeves. One of the worst of them is the...
Headlines from 2011 My take on what the news might look eight years from now…happy Fourth of July weekend to all yous Americans! >>> British...
A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston © Mike Johnston 2002 I became aware recently of the work of a photographer named Wade Heninger. Wade, whom I...
The Public and Me:What’s an SLR Supposed to Be? I’ve been reviewing cameras professionally since 1988 — mostly 35mm SLRs, the more expensive 35mm rangefinders,...
Rash Predictions I’m going to bounce completely off the wall here and muse aloud. I want to make some very rash, long-term predictions about what...
Wedding Photography and the "$39K Schmuck" On November 6th, onwww.cbs.marketwatch.com, a reporter named Chris Plummer wrote an article that has caused a stir among professional...
All photographs on this page are Copyright 2001 by John Brownlow "I shot the CNE last year and was already aiming to go back when...
By: Gary Ferguson In the first part of this article we looked at how badly image quality was degraded by any shift from the plane of precise...
By: Joe Beda I dream about being able to afford 22 megapixel medium format backs. I think that it would be great to be able...
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...
The Storage & ArchivingOf Digital Images This article represents my practice as of the Summer of 2000. Where to Put Those Megabytes When I...
by Miles Hecker All images and text unless otherwise indicated‚© 2000-2002 WyoFOTO LLC Written by photographic educatorMiles Hecker, with contribution byNorman Koren, this important essay...
Click Logo Above to Find Out AboutThe Luminous Landscape Lightroom V1.0 Hi-Res DownloadVideo Tutorial – With Michael Reichmann & Jeff Schewe Regular readers know that...
By Mike Johnston The viewfinder is the single most important user interface on any camera. Throughout the history of cameras, the method of aiming the camera...
This article was originally written with reference to film-based cameras. The same factors apply in terms of image quality though with regard to digital....
Digital Processing The magazine articleAn Introduction to Digital Imagingwhich I wrote forPhoto Techniquesmagazine in the fall of 1998 gives a general overview of how to...
By: Lee Carney Introduction Every weekend of the year, at hundreds of locations around North America, people gather to race motorized vehicles of every description....
Editor’s Note: One of the most frequent requests by both beginners, and even experienced digital darkroom workers, is for detailed step-by-step instructions on how...
Soft Proofing Photoshop 6.0 Photoshop 6.0, which was introduced in late 2000, has been one of the most important advances since Photoshop 4.0 was...
I have written this article specifically for Photoshop professionals should they desire to understand the CMYK Colour Space and the ability to separate RGB to...
A Simplified Zone System By:Norman KorenThis tutorial on the Zone System, written by Norman Koren, will be of primarily interest to newcomers to photography who...
Definition:Vignetting–In an optical system, the gradual reduction of image illuminance as the off-axis angle increases,resulting from limitations of the clear apertures of elements within the...
This subject is featured in Issue #6 ofThe Luminous Landscape Video Journal. The Problem Being Solved In nature when doing landscape work that includes sky,...