Working manually
How much of your work is your own?
Film photography
Looking at and looking through
Local color
An exercise with the company title
We present some results from our investigation into color photography.
The photographer, the painter and the scientist
Realism and creativity
Art and science are tied to reality in different ways, as are artists and scientists.
Junk mail
Making things easy
New technology often makes a task much easier to do. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s done better.
The tools of a professional
A ladder is often essential
What a photographer needs to do the job is sometimes far from obvious.
The colors of your mind
The John Henry moment
Old technology triumphant
A mathematics teacher is not much like a nineteenth-century railroad worker–but there are parallels. Our consultant who tutors High School math and science continues to learn from it; sometimes, his students do also.
Tools shape the artist
A choice of camera is unexpectedly important
Our photographic consultant finds that the camera he uses can have an unsubtle effect on the pictures he takes.
The angle of the light
A photographer and appearances
Our photographer draws our attention to how differently the same objects appear in different light. It’s a lesson easily generalized.