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Forked Paths: 09/01/2008 - 10/01/2008
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Saturday, September 20, 2008. The Zone System is a set of techniques that allowed photographers the greatest possible control over the characteristics of black-and-white film and the subsequent display print. Adams authored five (impenetrable) instructional books entitled The Basic Photo Series: The Camera, The Negative, The Print, Natural Light Photography, and Artificial Light Photography. In a late revision of his book The Negative, Adams shows a comparison of the two images:. But the Zone System was ...
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Forked Paths: 03/01/2010 - 04/01/2010
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Thursday, March 11, 2010. The Jesuit Influence on Baroque Architecture by John Nagel, Maurice McNamee. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Since the emergence of the graphic computer in the late 1980's, I have thought that the time is ripe for a another Renaissance in image creation. What visual discoveries will usher in new concepts that we have not yet imagined? Want a lighter touch? Since the forking paths on this blog are somewhat sporadic, I've added another blog with more frequent updates:.
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Forked Paths: 07/01/2008 - 08/01/2008
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008. Which is the correct caption for this photograph? You can click on the picture to view a larger version first.). Entrepreneur Milton Hawley shows off his son 'Cannonball' in front of his establishment last Sunday morning.". Billiard specialist Charlie Tucker places daughter Rosalie behind the eight ball.". Police detective Thomas Brannan puzzles over abandoned baby and pram at the Hawley Garage.". I once listened to Museum of Modern Art photography curator John Szarkowski. A con...
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Forked Paths: 12/01/2008 - 01/01/2009
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Thursday, December 25, 2008. All photographs © John Wm Nagel unless otherwise noted.). In an earlier post ( Breaking the Law. Fox Theatre, Auditorium. Exposures were often measured with a flash meter; but, more often than not, simply tested with Polaroid film in the 4" x 5" view camera. Exposures were always divided into two components and simultaneously controlled. The ambient light was derived from the length of the exposure. The added "fill" light was a product of the number of exposures. Another dime...
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Forked Paths: 06/01/2008 - 07/01/2008
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Monday, June 30, 2008. Nearly everyone likes to look at photographs. We are indoctrinated to absorb information from images as infants and we see thousands of them in the course of a few days. We also expect photographs to be representing the objects we see. We want. To believe in photographs–although we have some reservations about those proofs we got back from the portrait studio. It is the desire to believe. What mechanism allows our brains to accept as reality what is obviously fake? Normally the ste...
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Forked Paths: 08/01/2008 - 09/01/2008
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Friday, August 29, 2008. Wet Plate Outfit, late 19th Century. First Kodak Camera: Flexible Film, 1888 ( Duke. Advertising the simplicity of photography ( Duke. But what is the driving force behind the recording device of the camera? Why do we like to "take" pictures? Abu Simbel by Maxime du Camp. Maxime du Camp, a man of letters, voyaged up the Nile with author Gustave Flaubert from 1849 to 1852. Du Camp utilized photography because, "I had realized upon my previous travels that I wasted much valuabl...
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Forked Paths: 03/01/2009 - 04/01/2009
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Monday, March 23, 2009. Here's a project for making a Quick Time Virtual Reality (QTVR) stage for creating objects or movies using Apple's QTVR software. The second approach is to photograph an object that is rotated in front of a motionless camera. This was my objective. The result is an object that allows the mouse action to rotate the subject by clicking and moving left or right, as if turning the object in your hands. For the trial I used an ancient Graphlex camera. The lighting is pretty simple ...
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Thursday, March 11, 2010. The Jesuit Influence on Baroque Architecture by John Nagel, Maurice McNamee. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Since the emergence of the graphic computer in the late 1980's, I have thought that the time is ripe for a another Renaissance in image creation. What visual discoveries will usher in new concepts that we have not yet imagined? Want a lighter touch? Since the forking paths on this blog are somewhat sporadic, I've added another blog with more frequent updates:.