By Ctein A few weeks back, a reader wrote to Mike comparing the sharpness of prints made with his 6-MP and 12-MP digital cameras. He put in some effort to compare apples and apples. Both cameras had the same format, and he used the same high quality prime lens on both cameras at the same ISO and aperture. He worked on a tripod, photographing the same target at the same distance under the same cond...

My first career was as a photographer for a large metropolitan newspaper. Every week I spent mounds of money on film and hours in a darkroom developing the film and making prints. These days photographers have embraced the digital revolution and a computer has become a digital darkroom where photographs are manipulated, retouched, and filed.

While earning a degree in economics at the University of Michigan, Jesse Frohman picked up a camera and never put it down. When he returned home to New York, he did not have any formal professional experience, but he did have a portfolio of platinum prints, which caught the interest of legendary photographer Irving Penn,

Developing prints is a rather simple process that can be done in the most basic of darkrooms. And before the master printers attack me for such a statement, let me clarify that I’m talking about the basic process of going from exposed paper to fixed print. There are, of course, many ways to make this

Photos that look great as large prints can shrink into muddled, fuzzy messes when viewed on a computer monitor or, worse, a mobile phone. Here’s how to compose, shoot, and process your images so they work well on the small screen.  — Jay Kinghorn Source and : creativepro.com Technorati Tags: Photographs For The Web

Bring your prints and digital images to Focus on Imaging at the NEC for a live photo critique on the Amateur Photographer stand (B43).

Imagine having a company credit card burning a hole in your pocket, a lot of BIG blank walls crying out for photos, and 300 million to choose from.  :-) I never knew I could love shopping so much. I bought some 72-inch prints, a 5×10 foot print, and we’re now making one that’s 72×180 inches. I took some

The Archives of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery contain a collection of nearly a thousand prints and glass plate negatives by Antoine Sevruguin, a leading photographer of late-nineteenth century Iran. Made during the years just before and just after the turn of the last century, Sevruguin’s photographs of people, landscapes,

Nikon’s super slim, clearly brilliant Coolpix S8000 mixes 14.2 effective megapixels with a unusual 10x optical Zoom-Nikkor ED glass lens for striking prints as large as 2030 inches. The camera features a wonderful, bright 3.0-inch high-res VGA ( 921-k dot ) LCD for composing and sharing footage and HD ( 720p ) films with ...

A couple of weeks ago I posted that watching Doctor Who made me want to travel more and see London. I have only been there during a layover to Germany. I have always had a deep love affair with Paris, in fact my kitchen and dining room are full of French prints and signs. Ireland