By pascaljappy | News
We’ve worked hard to make DearSusan a safe place to share your images and ideas and it’s worked. But it may have become too much of a good thing, so we’re introducing an element of critique for readers who want a bit more than mere encouragement 🙂 Here’s how this is going to work. […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Not a day goes by without a blog post or video describing tips, rules or techniques to make better photographs. 99.9% miss the mark, and it’s not always their fault. Here’s how to use them better. Disclaimer: The following is purely based on personal experience and isn’t sanctioned by any of the official schools […]
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By Frank Field | How-To
In retirement, my avocation is landscape photography, particularly of the unmatched North Coast of California. As I’ve sought to transform myself from a high tech R&D leader to a photographer, I have accumulated about 200 volumes of monographs, collected works, histories, biographies and instructional works. Pascal’s call in DearSusan #995 for an index to influential […]
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By philberphoto | Art & Creativity
5 more findings from trying to will myself to photographic mastery! In paintings, there is a significant difference, in price at least, between a painting by the great artist himself, or one that looks “just like it”, but “attributed to”, “his studio”, “his circle”, “follower of”, “in the manner of”, “after”. Each step takes the […]
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