Archive for December, 2011

Pixel Peepers And Large Prints.

Photographers are a funny breed. Most of us tend to be a bit obsessive over our equipment. Spending hours looking at 100% crops of test images trying to compare sharpness, and bokeh, and the color of the chromatic abberations, trying to find the aperture where our lens is going to be the absolute sharpest. It’s [...]

16 bit and 32 bit explained.

I am always amazed how many people don’t understand the difference between 8, 16 and 32 bit color. Here is a quick explanation. 8bit is your standard bit depth for an image. It means that you have 0-255 values for each of the color channels, red, green, and blue. This results When we jump up [...]

New Lens, Duraplaq, And Velvet Paper.

I talked a while ago about my plans to purchase a high end inkjet printer for printing my own work. Those plans have changed. I finally found a place online that will print on Moab Somerset Velvet paper, so I no longer feel the need to do it myself. As it turns out I was [...]