The Refracted Light

FUTILITY IS where you do keep doing something over and over again, pointlessly and with no good result. The ancients called it pervicacia ...

MANY PHOTO hobbyists, if they take pictures with one of the very many consumer compact cameras, soon ask for advice on how to improve their...

SOME EMPIRICAL observations: I've long found that my photos taken under heavy overcast skies were disappointing. None of my standard t...

BEWARE! Memory cards for digital cameras can and do fail. To avoid problems, consider this: Upload your photos to a computer every day, a...

SOMEONE ASKS ABOUT  the significance of the Rule of Thirds , a simple compositional rule found in painting, drawing, and photography. Unless...

Here is the familiar X-Rite ColorChecker, a handy color calibration target, which despite undergoing many name changes over the years, is ...

AN OPTICAL ILLUSION: Stare at the white X for about a minute, then look at the black X below. Engineers, when they want to precisely me...