EXPLORING DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND GROUP THERAPY, TOGETHER
May 19, 2008
When I studied traditional photography over twenty years ago I did not see how much the art would shift for me in the way I executed it and what it meant for me. I believed like many of us that the silver halide was a thing of exacting beauty that could never be replaced. Read more
Exposure and Lighting for Digital Photographers Only
April 25, 2008
I recently encountered a relatively new book by Michael Meadhra and Charlotte K. Lowrie entitled Exposure and Lighting for Digital Photographers Only published by Wiley Press in 2007. Read more
The Nikon D300 Camera at Work
April 21, 2008
My job as a Still Photographer in the motion picture industry requires me to get the best possible images for publicity purposes. This requires me to constantly update my equipment when new and better technology is developed.
Such is the case with the Nikon D300 camera which hit the market in Dec 2007 and is now available without the waiting list that it had for several months. I had been using the Nikon D2x and the Nikon D200 cameras for several years, and a Nikon D100 and D1x prior to that. Read more
Wacom Cintiq
April 2, 2008
For about a week now I have been playing with my new toy…no, scratch that, rather I have been evaluating my new Wacom 12" Cintiq drawing tablet. Read more
Confessions Of A Game Artist
April 1, 2008
When people ask me what it is that I do, I cringe a little inside. Read more
ImageWell
February 28, 2008
Free is good for about anything! A well-made, extremely usable, and still free application is incredible! Check out Xtralean’s website and navigate to IMAGEWELL.
First of all it’s available in fifteen different languages and…but what does it do, you ask? Read more
FredMiranda.com
February 20, 2008
I am a man of some habit, and one of those habits is to surf a couple of websites each morning even before I select the News site. It has something to do with drinking the first cup of coffee and deciding to wake up with pleasant or interesting (to me) information before I have to grit my teeth at the foolishness of Man when I select World and National News.
One of my morning websites is photography-related and gives you the option of Canon, Nikon, or everybody else camera questions and comments. FredMiranda.com is my first dose of photography of the day and sometimes the way I end the day as well. Read more
Helvetica - What’s all that Hype about?
February 13, 2008
Can we say that typography, an art in the eyes of bibliophiles and graphic designers, can now be classified as art for the masses? In addition to the release of Gary Hustwit’s documentary film Helvetica this past year, (which by the way my typography class rated really good, and no one was caught napping) the Museum of Modern Art launched 50 years of Helvetica back in April of 2007 and will close the exhibition on March 31, 2008. Read more
Green Volcano’s Photon
February 7, 2008
Green Volcano has announced Photon 1.0.2, a digital image viewing and sorting application for Mac OS X. Photon has an intuitive interface based upon a stacks analogy to allow the user to quickly scan through large sets of high-resolution images. Photon can load images either from a hard disk or from a memory card.
