How do you speak Nadav Kander? The man himself on mastering your creative language – British Journal of Photography

“But I’ve never been a photographer who has left much to chance. I don’t hunt my portraits, I set them up,” he adds. “There’s a difference between writing and poetry. Whereas I could write with the darkroom, I can make poetry with digital.”  Nadav Kander I read the quote above in the interview and wondered how that could be?  For me it seems the opposite – poetry with film, writing with digital.  What do you think?   Source: How doRead more

Callier effect – Wikipedia

Source: Callier effect – Wikipedia I’m still working on my ‘scanner’ for my negatives and have been studying the differences between light sources. For a long time I’ve used a very diffuse light source, but I’m wondering now if a collimated light might help me get more detail. I’ve read about the differences between the light sources for darkroom enlargers and just purchased an old condensing head to modify for my digital camera scanner. My friend Greg who knows aRead more

Leica: To M-D or not to M-D? – Guest post by Adam Singer – 35mmc

Very well written and quite funny article by a friend – well worth the read! So a man walks into a camera store – stop me if you have heard this one – and says, ‘ I want that new Leica MD’. That’s the full frame all singing but no dancing digital Leica without a screen, auto ISO, and white balance. Just frame and shoot, but you can’t see your pictures till you find a computer to play the SDRead more