Photographers and Photography in Southern California and Beyond
Review by Madhu Joseph John • Imagine yourself wandering around New York’s Canal Street, or London’s Piccadilly Circus, or a quiet neighborhood in the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico, or even a place twelve hours away across the Pacific Ocean, like the Bugis Street Market in Singapore. You are a photography enthusiast, an amateur or wannabe... Continue Reading →
Author and Photographer: Mark Edward Harris (lives in Southern California) Publisher: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), New York, NY (USA) and Abingdon (UK); © 2018 Paperback, 260 pages, 174 illustrations, 11 chapters Review by J. K. Lanyi This newly published book on travel photography by Mark Edward Harris is a must-read, and not only... Continue Reading →
Cover photograph: Detail of Curtis Moffat, Abstract Compositions, c.1925 Author and Curator: Martin Barnes, Senior Curator of Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London Publisher: Thames & Hudson, New York, NY, April 23, 2019; V&A Publishing; © 2018 Text: English Hardcover, 192 pages, 141 illustrations Review by Paul Anderson Cameraless Photography by... Continue Reading →
Registration for Exposure Weekend 2018 conducted by the Los Angeles Center of Photography is now in progress. The portfolio reviewers and workshop/seminar presenters this year are a particularly interesting group. You can get your work assessed, learn some new things, and meet some more fellow photographers! Highly recommended! EXPOSURE 2018 Friday – Sunday, July... Continue Reading →
Untitled (Gardening for Ordnance) 2018 copyright Douglas Stockdale About four years ago a friend gifted me a couple blocks of expired 120 roll film for my Hasselblad camera; some Ilford Pan F black&white film that expired in June of 1984, Ilford HP5 black&white film that expired in July of 1982 and a 20 pack of... Continue Reading →
Minor White Zone System Manual, Fourth printing, copyright 1972 with 19% Gray card Earlier this month when discussing the Pentax Spotmeter V, I had stated that this was a pretty essential piece of photographic equipment when using the Zone System. I have received some questions about the Zone System and I thought it might be... Continue Reading →
Pentax Spotmeter V 2017 copyright Douglas Stockdale For my analog/film photography, I have been a long time user of spotmeters, my first was made by Soligor and when I dropped that too many times, I replaced it with the Pentax Spotmeter V. The Spotmeter V is an analog spotmeter that has since been replaced by... Continue Reading →
The Moon has always had a strange fascination for us. Mysterious powers have been attributed to this ever-present companion of ours (there are many folk tales about it), and science has verified that we definitely need that stellar friend. So this past week we had a convergence of several phenomena that resulted in showing us... Continue Reading →
Really Right Stuff BH-40 and mounting plate with Hasselblad 2017 copyright Douglas Stockale The review of the Really Right Stuff (RRS) ball-head system is the second part of my series on tripod systems and last week I discussed the Gitzo carbon-fiber tripods. To create a really good camera support platform, you need to use equal... Continue Reading →
