Articles Tagged with creative control

A personal kind of astronomy

How science is done (I)

We look at an extraordinary data set.

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A stone in the sidewalk (II)

millstone set in the sidewalkRepurposed art

We muse on something outside of our area of expertise.

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Photography: the hard part

Keeping track

It’s still the same task, digital or film.  And it is still not done well, sometimes at all, by most photographers.

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The navigator’s watch

Combining instruments

Doing some things the old-fashioned way is getting difficult.

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A hands-on process

Working manually

How much of your work is your own?

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The tools of a professional

A ladder is often essential

What a photographer needs to do the job is sometimes far from obvious.

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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.

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Simplified lightning

The rise and fall of the flashbulb

flashbulbsOur photographer illustrates the evolution of technology through something once ubiquitous, now obsolete.

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Making it easy makes it hard

Simplicity is good, but not always

123Photography can seem very complicated, so cameras made for non-experts are often highly simplified.  This can make them difficult to use.

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Instant gratification in the Swinging Sixties

A darkroom inside the camera

polaroidA remarkable mid-century invention allowed a photographer to produce pictures almost immediately, a bit of magic that is rarely matched even by current digital cameras.

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