Photojournalist Harry Benson talks to the New York Times’ Gadgetwise blog about how taking quality photos in low-light situations is easier than you might think and the superiority of digital photography.
I shoot all digital now. I have a closet full of film cameras like Hasselblad, Nikon, and Rolleiflex, and every time I pass by the [...]
Adobe’s celebrating 20 years of Photoshop with this cheerful anniversary video reuniting the original Photoshop team. It’s a breezy, knowing little piece that’s packed with surprising historical tidbits, Photoshop geek humor, and allusions to the scale of Photoshop’s influence on photography, art, design (including web design: can you imagine how different the internet would be [...]
There’s a strange thing that happens to you when you start getting serious about photo retouching. You start to see Photoshop everywhere, in every commercial image. The texture-free skin, the hair blowing in the wind but without a single hair going too far astray, the overly soft or overly defined edges, the unnatural intensity of [...]
Tags: commercial, Photoshop, retouching
Not in the mood to spend half an eternity waiting for Photoshop to process a filter on a large image? Here’s a way to make things a little quicker. It’s especially quick if you know your keyboard shortcuts.
Use the marquee tool to select part of the image. Select an area that’s just big enough [...]
Here’s two cynical questions I have about Vivian Maier: firstly, is her story just too good to be true, and secondly, will she be judged by history as a major talent?
The story of Vivian Maier, if you haven’t heard it yet, is a simple and fantastic one. A few years ago, Chicagoan John Maloof went [...]
Tags: history, photographers, photography, street photography
