January 2009

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This week's iPhone pics. Ironically, holga style. The plan is: One set of iPhone pics per week, till the end of the year, 52 weeks, a lot of pics, lets see how I hold up!


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There is a tug-o-war in my head about the constant evolution of photography. I am sometimes impressed and sometimes depressed by all the emerging new technologies. I haven't quite pin-pointed my dilemma but I think I am closing in on some clues that would allow me to explain myself to... well... myself. There is an emotional attachment to knowledge acquired through experience, trial and error, successes and failures. You know, when you produce an image with limited means, and it turns out to be a great piece of work, something that at the time, you know it cannot be reproduced?. That is how I felt...


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Photo retouching can take a lot of patience and detail work. A few months ago, I was asked to fix a damaged photograph of my grand parents. I was provided with the original image which had been pinned to a closet door, collected dust and was severely scratched. The image itself had faded on the highlights. Dated somewhere in the mid 1950's, it was impossible to track down the negative. All I had to work with was a black and white mangled print. After 6 or 7 hours of work, using Photoshop, I was able to achieve a somewhat acceptable repair. Workflow for retouching: - Scan @ 300 DPI. Here I try to gather...


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