I like his work immensely, mainly for the deep sense of connection that transcends his photographs. Allard’s images look as they have been taken by a family member, by a local, they are candid and true. In his words, they have been “given”, not taken. This image is one of my favourites from his work [...]
Here’s another confusing topic. Old landscape favourites Neutral Density filters. These are filters that allow you to reduce the amount of light on the entire image (Full ND) or only a portion (ND Grads). So far, so good. ALl photographers refer to exposure in terms of f-stops. This is pretty much a standard way of [...]
Another old time favourite confusion. DPI and PPI. Totally different items that have been used to refer to the same thing so often, that they have become synonyms. DPI means Dots Per Inch. It’s related to the capacity of the printer. The more the better, but has nothing to do whatsoever with the image size [...]
I’ll try and post some simple hints that helped me make sense of a lot of non-standardized information that relates to the technical aspects of photography. I don’t know why simple things are made over-complicated by referring to them in different ways, using different terms etc. I recently saw on a photo forum a user [...]
