Article Roundup 06/06/2023
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Marlee Grace mentioned The Artist’s Way in their recent newsletter. This and a few podcasts mentioning the book recently has inspired a re-read!
Tony Fouse has a great series up on A Photo Editor documenting the process of him designing and editing his latest book. Part 7 focuses on how you can get stuck planning certain layouts in a book after placing the images to begin with, and also references his mentorship of Morrocan photographer Souki Belghiti and how she worked through the editing for her book.
You just still don’t seem to get these colours in digital photos! How do you guys edit your digital photos to elicit similar colours?
A quote on the work from the author of the piece, Josh Bright:
The warmth, atmosphere, and vivid yet authentic tones of Jakob’s imagery are thanks to his mastery of the analog format and would be difficult to attain digitally. Like his predecessors, he puts great value on the darkroom process, asserting that, “the decisions you make while exposing film gives it its color palette and dynamic range.”
At the heart of his work, Jakob seeks to save special moments. His subtle, beautiful compositions demonstrate the relevance of analog photography, displaying its incredible potential to capture the essence of the world around us.
Lara Chapman has a cool post up on The Neighborly Florida focusing on her experiences shooting flamingos over a number of years.
Matthew Poburyny published a really throughtful piece titled When Not to Photograph over on his newsletter. I really liked the below paragraph in particular!
Photography, for the most part, is reactionary. You are using a recording device to react to a moment, scene, and light. More often than not, a photograph is pure chance, luck, right place at the right time. It is a reaction to our body navigating the world and interacting with reality, but sometimes this quest for the picture in the frame robs us of being observant.
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