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  • Friday Morning Thoughts on My Photography Skills and Lessons Learned - I have to learn to stop trying to be a perfectionist. The boat and car are clipped in the raw, so there’s not really much I can do about it. But, they aren’t the subject. Unless you’re going to pixel peep, that “flaw” isn’t noticeable. I’ve known a degree of shadow clipping can be acceptable; […]
  • I’ve Been Doing it Wrong - No details in this one. That will come later. I’ve been re-evaluating photo editing software, and spending a lot of time on darktable. I’ve been seeing issues with recent photographs. I’ve learned a whole lot in the last hour. I’ve long known the Dynamic Range setting on Fujifilm cameras affects the raw, but I’ve never […]
  • Versatile Color - Introducing my new custom recipe Versatile Color.
  • Changing Philosophy Again - The more experience I get with photography, the more I change my approach. Perhaps I am starting to overthink things. I’ve already changed how I approach my recipes, no longer emphasizing the highlights and shadows. My recipes are now much more about the color profile; after all, I’m not trying to emulate specific film stocks. […]
  • Some Early Morning Photos - These three images, taken during my trip to Big Bend for New Year 2021-2022, have been some of my most challenging to work with. Some of that was technical errors on my part: I decided to trust my camera to pick the dynamic range, which it didn’t do a good job of; some of it […]
  • Something New Here: My Photographs - I’m going to try doing something a little different with my blog. I’m going to start sharing photographs that I take and explain a little of what I’m doing. Maybe this will keep me interested enough to keep the blog updated like I keep threatening to do. We shall see. As a gift to myself […]