A brief history: A century and a half ago, when the process of photography was in its infancy, there was only monochrome. There were some browns and blues, it wasn’t until much later that the process of black and white moved to the forefront. As you can imagine, the earliest versions didn’t have the contrast…
This is an example of the Macro Photography technique of Focus Stacking. The method is to take precisely focused slices of a subject and stack them together in software. The reason for this is the extremely narrow DoF (Depth of Field) due to a wide open aperture and very close focus. I would surmise that…
The Visual Language: Photography is the art of ‘drawing with light’ in such a way as to take a 3d world and capture it on a 2d surface and make is appear in 3d. I’m going to set aside the ‘exposure triangle’ and any discussion about focus and cameras and lenses for now. I’d like to discuss…