Archives for May 2008
Removing dust and scratches from scanned black and white film
If you’ve ever been frustrated with the clone stamp or the spot healing brush for removing dust and scratches from scanned film (both tools distort grain and destroy details), you may want to give this technique a try. This tutorial is optimized for black and white film, but it works well for color, too.
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Printing with Platinum and Palladium
Information about contemporary photographers who work in platinum and palladium. continue reading
New Acquisition – Mike and Doug Starn’s Structure of Thought 6a and 6b
Structure of Thought 6a and 6b, Mike and Doug Starn, courtesy 20×200.
20×200 released two bonus limited edition prints last month from Mike and Doug Starn as a benefit for Blind Spot. I was fortunate enough to be at my desk and online when both prints became available and managed to snag one of each.
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Return to the Vale of Cashmere
Can you tell that I can’t get enough of this place?
I was looking at this photograph yesterday when I made a connection between the photographs I am currently taking and an experience I had growing up. When I was young, I spent summers living with my great-grandmother in rural New Jersey. My grandma was a gloomy woman, and her house had suffered from years of neglect. I spent my days there practically alone, reading dusty books that hadn’t been off the shelf in ages, exploring the contents of her musty basement, and playing in the wildly overgrown back yard. Her house was literally being swallowed up by the earth.
KFC Parking Lot, Fourth Avenue
Everyone knows that the Colonel puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly.