Flim: search for objects in movies
Flim: Flim is the best tool for iconographic search If you'll recall, back in January I linked to Mike Eckman's post re: cameras in movies. He mentioned someone on Reddit making their own…
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Creatively bored
Filmosaur*: Sure, I took a few photos here and there, but there’s no real creativity, no real meaning. Perhaps an occasional photo managed to capture something more than an utterly prosaic image,…
As Seen in an Alleyway by Katie Yang
Katie Yang: My name is Katie and I shoot film (mostly expired, mostly in alleyways and cute cafes). This is where I chronicle my favorite places, favorite people and daily life in Taipei, Taiwan. A great blog to subscribe to. I like…
Photos Takeout
Photos Takeout (no doubt a play on the name of Google's own Takeout data service): Export photos and videos from Photos on Mac in yearwise, album-wise or moment/date-wise folders. Save them in…
Audio: Mistakes have been made (special episode of the podcast)
Recorded January 27, 2021. In this special episode of Photowalking with Colin I cover some recent mistakes I've made with film and in the darkroom. It seems we (the collective we) mainly…
Om Malik compares the iPhone to the Kodak Brownie
Om Malik: Prior to the Brownie, a photo trip to capture a far-flung environment was an expedition that often involved porters, mules, and explosions. The adventurous photographer would need to carry heavy…
The best of 2020 as told by me
I didn't want to get too deep into 2021 before I compiled my best of list for 2020. I usually begin to compile this list somewhere near the beginning of December and…
Film cameras in TV and movies
Mike Eckman: If you’re like me, it is exciting to see an old camera in a movie or television show set in the past. I've been known to pause to figure out…
Black Women Photographers
Laura Beltrán Villamizar, writing for NPR, describing the website Black Women Photographers: Her site, Black Women Photographers, is a forum where members can celebrate each other's work. It's also a platform both to…
Understanding ProRAW
With iOS 14.3 and the new iPhone, Apple has introduced an updated RAW image file format spec that extends on the already robust editing capabilities of RAW. They call it ProRAW. Ben…
Jack Baty’s bad film experience
Jack Baty, 11 years ago: I ran out of film while on a deserted island. I set the ISO incorrectly on my OM-1, overexposing the roll by 2 stops. I opened the…
The story of the Studebaker darkroom print
If you follow me on Instagram or Twitter you may have seen that I was in the darkroom this weekend. In March 2020, I purchased this Ansco Speedex from a local hip…
What I saw somewhat recently #72: December 3, 2020
I haven't made one of these lists in a little while, opting instead to publishing far more status updates to my site that include links. I go back and forth in my…
Jack Baty on being burnt out of film photography
Jack Baty: The trouble, I'm finding, is that I don't really like the results I'm getting. I've shot maybe 20 rolls of film this year and a couple dozen large format negatives….
Om Malik: Why bother with film?
Om: One aspect of film that I have personally found appealing is the restrictions it imposes. Film photography is about constraints. It limits the frames at your disposal. It limits the capability…
What I saw somewhat recently #71: October 22, 2020
Photographers whose work I've recently been exposed to: William Eggleston, Consuelo Kanaga, Fan Ho. Peggy Anne Marsh's Camera List – Looking for a camera review? Peggy may very likely have reviewed it….
Gorgeous pinhole photograph by Michael McNeil in Ireland
Michael McNeil: It's the first time I've used this film, so it was all a bit of an experiment. As usual, I did no research before I went out. I appreciate how…
Podcast: Photographing an abandoned Lace Company in Scranton – September 2020
Photographing an abandoned Lace Company in Scranton – September 2020 Recorded in September 2020. Holy cow a new episode! Finally. Sorry for the wait for those that are subscribed to the podcast….
We need to disincentivize dangerous photo ops
Dangerous photo ops are all the rage on social media. Countless stories over the last decade or so have hit the news about someone trying to get a selfie on a rock…
How to move referenced originals in Photos for Mac
Warning!! I've only just hacked this solution together and I don't fully understand the ramifications of my actions yet. If there are any, I will update this post. First, a bit of…
What I saw somewhat recently #69: September 17, 2020
VSCO revives Kodachrome – To make a Kodachrome-inspired photo filter VSCO went to some pretty great lengths. #filmloadchallenge – A fun internet challenge thingy that I took part in. Some of the…
Camerajunky on being crazy enough to shoot film
Camerajunky (whose real name I cannot find, so perhaps this is likely on purpose): Of course there is also the fact that to get from the decisive moment to a print or…
Photography blogs in OPML
Back in August I linked to Jim Grey's list of photography blogs. At the time I subscribed to nearly every single one with an RSS feed. He has since updated the list…
Jack Baty gives up on Lightroom
Jack Baty: I’m here to tell you that I can not make it work for me. There’s too much overhead in having to decide what to add to a synced collection and…
Untappd hits 10
Untappd, the app that helps me track the beers I've had, liked, disliked, etc. is celebrating its 10th anniversary. I signed up to Untappd in 2014 and used it for a little…
Photography isn’t my job
Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life. That's the saying, right? What can also happen, though, is that by doing your hobby as work you can…
Marcus Peddle on Flickr
Marcus Peddle: Creating portfolio pages is a hassle on WordPress even though there are a number of photography templates. Adding photos is time consuming and I am rarely happy with the layout….
I do not like Reels
Instagram has been the place that Facebook jams all of its cloned-app-features into for the last few years. When it copied Snapchat it jammed all of the features into Instagram. And now,…
What I saw somewhat recently #66: August 18, 2020
Great list this week. See other lists. Vicariously – See what Twitter looks like for other users. James Sowerby Mineralogy – Exquisite digital collection of Sowerby's painstaking illustrations. Great work and website….
Nick Clayton on his pandemic photography experience
Nick Clayton, in a beautifully written and photographed post on Casual Photophile: Walking with a camera is a moving meditation in which paramount importance is placed on being present in your surroundings….