Limited edition prints..

In my opin­ion, there is no such thing. It is bogus and just snake oil. Back in the days, print­ing was tech­ni­cally chal­leng­ing, labor inten­sive and repro­ducibil­ity was dif­fi­cult. Mas­ter print­ers made exten­sive notes on their test prints, trained a select few on how to read these notes and make prints. In most cases, these mas­ter


Photographer or artist?

Well, I have often felt that there is a stigma asso­ci­ated with the term “Pho­tog­ra­pher” in some social cir­cles. The term “Pho­tog­ra­pher” means dif­fer­ent things to peo­ple based on pre­set notions and social sit­u­a­tion. Sim­ply said, A pho­tog­ra­pher is someone/anyone who uses a cam­era to cap­ture pic­tures. How­ever, thats not the end of the story…


Notes on ultra long exposures

A while ago — I had writ­ten about long expo­sures and have also pro­vided a handy PDF cheat sheet (See ref­er­ences below for link). For a new series that I am work­ing on, I needed to quickly fig­ure out shut­ter val­ues for for stack­ing fil­ters. I thought I will share that table with fel­low pho­tog­ra­phers who


HDR Field notes: The middle exposure…

Well, I am talk­ing about the expo­sure for the mid­dle image — the one cor­rectly exposed image So, whats so spe­cial about this mid­dle image? For starters — this is the one expo­sure that deter­mines the extent of the +/- EV data cap­tured. Almost every­one who has attended a work­shop knows that every pho­tog­ra­pher point­ing


Product review: HDR Expose

Let me start by say­ing that I nor­mally dont write reviews. In some ways, I feel one shouldn’t be con­strained with the choie of tools, but to rather use all avail­able tools as required to gen­er­ate your final image. So, Why did I write this review? Sim­ply because — after using the soft­ware on a few


Understanding Art

My recent trip to Philadel­phia Museum of Art to see the works of Picasso and his con­tem­po­raries has been an epiphany  in some ways. The exhibit I am of course refer­ring to is the Picasso exhibit.  As a pho­tog­ra­pher — I find these exhibits very enlight­en­ing.  If you are an aspir­ing fine-art pho­tog­ra­pher, I would sug­gest


On critique

When you post an image for cri­tique on one of the sev­eral pho­tog­ra­phy forums — and ask for cri­tique. Most likely chances are — You will get it. There are at least 50% of the pop­u­la­tion out there that don’t like you shit. Then there are oth­ers that may offer some tips to make it bet­ter