From the monthly archives:

June 2010

Tasteful Pictures: The Art Of Food Photography : NPR

June 30, 2010

I came across this fascinating article on the history of food photography: For as long as there has been art, there have been still lifes. And for as long as there have been still lifes, there have been portraits of food. Last week I spoke on the phone with Larry Nighswander, photography director at Saveur, [...]

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PhotoshopDisasters

June 29, 2010

I love photoshop disasters… It’s a constant reminder about what good Photoshop work is (or isn’t) about, oh yes and the captions are hilarious, here’s a typical one: In a bracingly antideconstructionist denouement Steven Meisel reinterprets the dichotomatic nature of classic Hegelian dialectics in the semiotically heterodoxical form of a “mirror reality” in which Natalia [...]

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Hasselblad Camera profiles

June 21, 2010

What’s in a profile? Well the one on the right is Archimedes and as such is completely irrelevant to what I’m about to write. He does have a rather striking nose though doesn’t he… What I am actually going to write about are H camera profiles. I have to admit that although aware of them [...]

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Phocus 2.5 for whiter whites!

June 4, 2010

As I’m sure you all know by now Phocus 2.5 is out and it’s one giant leap for mankind. O.K that’s a stretch but the clever Danes have added one KILLER feature with 3rd party RAW support. What? I hear you cry, actually WHY is what you are probably asking.. well let me explain with [...]

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