Archive for November, 2009

New depth of field Interview

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Matt Brandon has just released a new a great new episode of his Depth of Field series – interviewing David duChemin during their recent workshop, Lumen Dei. This great series of audio podcasts – also available via iTunes (just search for Depth of Field) – interviews working photographers and give you a beyond the scenes [...]


Edoardo Agresti launches blog

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Some key steps on my own photographic journey can be traced back to a couple of seminal moments – the emotional reaction I felt when I first saw Steve McCurry’s Afghan Girl; An exhibition of Dorothea Lange’s work; The reading of David DuChemin’s “Within the Frame” which helped me focus on the “why” and not [...]


Awesome iPhone Camera Apps

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My thanks to Loren Roberts in Santa Monica for alerting me to these two great iPhone apps that have transformed my view of the usefulness of the iPhone Camera. Historically I believed that a combination of the lack of zoom and low number of megapixels consigned the iPhone to a snap camera – and not [...]


Chasing The look – 10 Ways to Improve the Aesthetics of Your Photographs

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That clever man David DuChemin has been at it again. Not content with writing a third book, doing publicity around the second, blogging daily, podcasting frequently and twittering multiple times a day – oh and celebrating his wedding anniversary – he has somehow found time to author another eBook. “Chasing The Look, 10 Ways to [...]


Pemaquid Lighthouse

Pemaquid Lighthouse

Thank you to all of you who suggested that I should head up to the Maine coast this weekend – unfortunately getting to the Arcadia National Park and back proved to be impossible within the available time, but I did base myself at Damiscotta about an hour or so north of Portland, and explore the [...]