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Photography: A Critical Introduction [Review]

Photography: A Critical Introduction [Review]

by | Mar 17, 2015

Photography: A Critical Introduction is an academic game of-catch up in the history of photographic development, and especially the debates around those developments. It was a good, exhausting read. The book, which is in its fifth edition, is on the reading list for...
Picture Perfect Posing [Review]

Picture Perfect Posing [Review]

by | Feb 20, 2015

Picture Perfect Posing by Roberto Valenzuela is not a book about the perfect poses, which is almost useless to anyone but the faddist. It’s a book about the building blocks of them and it’s a very effective instructor. Posing, like the rest of photography,...
The Photographer’s Eye [Review]

The Photographer’s Eye [Review]

by | Dec 31, 2014

The Photographer’s Eye by Michael Freeman is a textbook, mostly, for the intangible aspects of art within photography. That is to say, concepts of shape and design, process and mental fortitude, as opposed to the coarse grain of technique. It’s a book...
A Cheap $25 Umbrella Softbox for Speedlights

A Cheap $25 Umbrella Softbox for Speedlights

by | Sep 15, 2014

I found a 43″ Parabolic Softbox for $25. It’s made for use with studio strobes, but who’s got time for those these days? Speedlights are the way to go. Stores and stores of them. It just so happens that this softbox works perfectly with speedlights,...