Author Archives: Steve Crane

On The Phoblographer, Ibarionex Perillo writes, One of the things that I share with my students about the practice of photography is the role of “the editor”. And by that I don’t mean the software that one uses to massage a digital photograph or even the person sitting at the computer working the mouse orContinue reading “The Editor and the Creative Process”

We’re always hearing people saying that their prints don’t come out as they expect or that their images as projected at the club don’t look like they did on their monitors at home. In episode 213 of the Shutters Inc podcast, guest Les Walkling talks about profiling of monitors and printers. While he doesn’t goContinue reading “Talk about monitor and printer profiles”

This article explains in some detail how to use your DSLR with a macro lens to scan film negatives, and slides too I suppose. This technique can achieve higher resolution than even drum scanners by simply taking multiple shots and stitching them together using panorama creation software. Read the article

An interesting article that looks at some widely used crop factors. Read the article

This article looks at the state of RAW image capturing today as well as going over many of the available applications for processing RAW images. Read the article

At Digital Photography School, Rick Berk writes; Often times when looking at an image, people will ask “Was that Photoshopped?” or “Did that scene REALLY look that way?”  They say this as if the camera, left to its own devices, is going to display an unedited, “truthful” image.  The truth is, that any image comingContinue reading “Was That Photoshopped? It Doesn’t Matter!”