Visual Literacy
Inspiration: Coke Quest
In trolling through the dozens of RSS feeds I subscribe to, I often come across videos, photos, quotes and things I find inspirational. I don’t, however, often post them. I’ve decided to change that. Because we all can use a little extra wind in our sails and a creative boost every now and again. I [...]
Don’t bother if it’s not compelling
We’ve all seen it. That commercial that was decidedly “cool” with its crazy use of CG and slow-mo, yet when people ask us later what the commercial was for, we have no earthly idea. The same mistake can happen with photography. In the race to provide “the next big thing,” the art and the message [...]
Realist vs. Impressionist Business Models
Realist vs. Impressionist Business Models A couple weeks ago (http://jaykinghorn.com/?p=231), I suggested the use of the terms Realist and Impressionist photographer to define approaches to, and uses of, photography. A realist photographer is primarily concerned with capturing their vision as completely as possible in-camera, while an impressionist photographer uses the camera’s capture as a starting [...]
The New (Visual) Literacy
A recent Wired magazine article by Clive Thompson asserts that Twitter, Facebook, blogs and email are creating a new literary renaissance among college students. He points to a study at Stanford University, that finds students today write far more outside of class and write more for their audience than ever before. Are the visual arts [...]
The Next Big Thing: Part 3
I really only intended this to be a two-part series, but today I found a link on A Photo Editor’s blog to Folio Magazine’s 115 Media and Magazine predictions for 2010. In it, several people far better connected than I seemed to echo many of the same statements from my past two posts. Here are [...]
The Next Big Thing: Part 2
In my previous post, I listed three extraordinary developments I feel demonstrate the future of newspaper and magazine publishing. Looking at these publications, my head was filled with dozens of questions. Who designs this, the Web team or the print team? Does it take less, or more time, to publish an interactive magazine than a [...]
Are you a Realist or an Impressionist photographer?
Photographers will always wrestle with the thorny ethical question of when it is appropriate to use Photoshop for image manipulation and how much manipulation is appropriate, particularly in an editorial context. Unfortunately, much of the conversation on Photoshop and ethics has devolved into partisan statements. “Photoshop is cheating,” some say. “An artist should use any [...]
Why does ACR have Orange & Purple along with RGBCMY?
I recently received a question from one of my Lightroom Webinar attendees wondering why Adobe Camera Raw uses colors like aqua, orange and purple in the HSL panel instead of sticking with the standard red, green, blue, cyan, magenta and yellow? Although I can’t say definitively, I suspect the answer to the question lies in [...]
Review: X-Rite Color Checker Passport First Thoughts
Most photographers know DNG (Digital Negative Format) as a non-proprietary camera raw file format which contains a great number of workflow and photo-archiving benefits. The latest versions of the DNG format (Versions 1.2 and 1.3) help give photographers the ability to fine-tune their workflow through DNG profiles. DNG profiles allow you to customize the default [...]
How Do You Know Your Monitor Is Accurate?
If you’ve read this blog, read my articles or attended any of my classes, you know that monitor calibration is one of the fundamental pillars of an efficient digital photography or graphic design workflow. Assuming you’re calibrating and profiling your monitor regularly, how do you know, for sure, your monitor is accurate? Or, to put [...]
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