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Luminous Landscape

• A Parable;

• What Slide Film Taught Me;

• The Second Story -- A Note on Photographic Composition;

• A Matter of Interpretation -- What Story Do You Want to Tell?;

• Photographing Fall Colour -- When Less is More;

• Telling The Story;

• Negative Space;

• Understanding Aspect Ratios and The Art of Cropping -- A Bandage for Poor Composition, or a Creative Tool?;

• Understanding the DSLR Magnification Factor;

• Understanding Depth Of Field;

• Optimizing Exposure -- Why Do Camera Makers Give Us 19th Century Exposures With Our 21st Century Cameras?;

• Expose (to the) Right -- Maximizing S/N Ratio in Digital Photography;

• A Possible Problem with Expose to the Right! -- Settings for an Accurate Histogram;

• Understanding SLR Viewfinders -- Finding the View;

• Lens Sharpness -- The Never-Ending Quest;

• Understanding Lens Contrast -- And the Basics of MTF;

• Understanding Resolution;

• Understanding Sharpness;

• Understanding the Digital Unsharp Mask;

• Understanding Local Contrast Enhancement -- A Photoshop Technique;

• Understanding Polarizers;

• Understanding Mirror Lock-Up -- Techniques for Reducing Vibration;

• Understanding MTF -- The Modulation Transfer Function Explained;

• Light -- Color & Human Vision;

• Colour Theory as Applied to Landscape Photography;

• Understanding Histograms;

• Understanding Exposure -- A Complex Subject Made Simple for Beginners;

• Understanding Raw Files;

• Understanding ProPhoto RGB -- A Preferred Working Space for Digital Photographers;

• A Simplified Zone System;

• An Appeal for Divergence and Simplicity;

• Why Is My 50mm Lens Equivalent to 80mm on a 35mm Camera and Why Is There More Depth-of-Field?;

• Better Photographic Composition, or The Best Camera Won't Make you a Better Photographer;

• Vision -- Part 1 -- From Passion to Vision;

• Vision -- Part 2 -- Everything you always wanted to know about Fine Art Photography but were too afraid to ask;

• Vision -- Part 3 -- Vision and Artist Statement;

• Vision -- Part 4 -- Why Do We Photograph?;

• Vision -- Part 5 -- Vision and Creativity;

• Vision -- Part 6 -- Creativity Remembered;

• Vision -- Part 7 -- In Praise of Amateurs;

• Vision -- Part 8 -- Hard Skills and Soft Skills;

• Aesthetics and Photography -- Part 1 -- How to See Photographically;

• Aesthetics and Photography -- Part 2 -- How to Compose a Photograph;

• Aesthetics and Photography -- Part 3 -- How to Choose the Best Lens For a Specific Composition;

• Aesthetics and Photography -- Part 6 -- How to determine the best exposure for a specific photograph with film and digital capture;

• Aesthetics and Photography -- Part 7 -- How to Decide Which Photographs Are Keepers and Which Ones Are Not;

• Aesthetics and Photography -- Part 8 -- How to Create a Portfolio of your Work;

• Changing Perspective;

• Photographing From The Heart;

• The Art of Fooling Around;

• The Filter Flare Factor;

• Flare;

• The Full Frame Myth;

• A Redux Critique Of Contemporary Camera Design;

• A Critique of Contemporary Camera Design --- A Synthesis of History, Technology, and Art;

• On Street Photography;

• Fuji X-T1 Further Thoughts;

• Obsolescence Be Damned!;

• Polarizers;

• Loving Long Exposure;

• The Optimum Digital Exposure;

• They Just Don’t Get It;

• Just Say Yes;

• Digital Zone System;

• Why Photoshop is not Ruining Landscape Photography;