The Refracted Light

AS SOON AS I wrote the following lines at the end of the last article in this series, I regretted it; I wasn't sure why, but I had a na...

A PHOTOGRAPHER ASKS, “Why are blue skies so noisy in photos?” A noisy blue sky in a photo, greatly enlarged. This is a common questio...

IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, it became fashionable to tour the English countryside, visiting castles, ruined abbeys, and picturesque landscap...

ADMITTEDLY, DIGITAL cameras are somewhat difficult to characterize well, because there is so much variety between models, but there are a f...

“IT MUST BE really simple. When a digital camera’s shutter button is pressed, the camera records the amount of light falling on it, which is...

A WHILE BACK, I wrote two articles listing things that I’d like to see in some future version of Photoshop: Photoshop Wishlist #1 Photos...

SOMEONE WRITES “I am buying a new camera, but cannot make up my mind…” The correspondent then lists a number of expensive recent-model came...