I love color. I see in color. I really favor color over B&W images. But strong B&W images do have impact that is often lost with the distraction of color. Even though most of the photographs on my wedding photography blog are in color, there was a recent wedding which I showed as a set of B&W images instead. What happened was that when I started editing the images from that wedding for the blog, first one image, and then another, looked really good as a warm-toned B&W … and then I decided to go all the way and create a blog entry that consisted only of B&W Read more inside...
A solution to a persistent Bridge CS3 problem
A solution to a persistent Adobe Bridge CS3 problem (Windows)
A few days ago I posted on an online forum about a persistent problem I've been having with Bridge CS3. The problem arises when I open Bridge and navigate to a folder, in that Bridge doesn't show any thumbnails but will just show a blank grey right-hand pane. Just a few hours later, one of the most knowledgeable photographers on the forum, Brian Tao, came up with several possible causes and solutions. Since I believe that the problem is quite prevalent, and the solution not obvious at all, I thought that it would be Read more inside...world in motion …
This image from the recent photo-session with Amy and Nick in Manhattan received a number of comments and questions about the technique. The basic camera settings for several sequences of images here, were 1/20th (at f8) and 1/10th @ f11. The image above was one of a sequence at 1/20th. But there's more to it ... Read more inside...