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THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT
This original frame was just, um, all right, and I kept wanting to go back and find something more effective within it. By MICHAEL PERKINS THE INTRODUCTION OF THE FIRST PANORAMIC CAMERAS in the 1840’s...
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YA BIG SOFTIE
These uber-cupcakes didn’t look nearly seductive enough in reality, so I added a gauzy layer in SoftFocus and a faux Technicolor filter in AltPhoto. By MICHAEL PERKINS ONE OF THE MOST FREEING THINGS...
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ON THE LEVEL
With the amount of repair time it took to straighten and resharpen this shot, I could have made ten pictures that were done correctly in-camera. By MICHAEL PERKINS IT’S NOW QUITE EASY TO HAVE YOUR...
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A DIFFERENT BRAND OF DARK
A texturally rich subject, but its natural color is too Disney. By MICHAEL PERKINS ONE PHOTOGRAPHER’S LAB ACCIDENT IS, OCCASIONALLY, ANOTHER PHOTOGRAPHER’S EUREKA MOMENT. Take the case of a visual...
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EYE ON THE BALL
The two passersby mar what might have been an ideal composition. If I’d just reshot without them… By MICHAEL PERKINS I CAN STILL HEAR MY LITTLE LEAGUE COACH’S VOICE, cured into a coarse hum by too many...
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THE BLUE LION
The “natural” colors in the original of this shot were the “wrong” colors for what I wanted to say. So I changed them. By MICHAEL PERKINS I CONDUCT TOURS FOR KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS AT PHOENIX’ MUSICAL...
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THIS MUST BE / MIGHT BE THE PLACE
Dream Parchment, 2016. By MICHAEL PERKINS URBAN PHOTOGRAPHERS ACT IN MUCH THE SAME WAY AS ARCHAEOLOGISTS in that they must try to supply context for objects, backstories that have been either altered...
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WHEN AND WHERE FOR WHAT AND WHY
Manhattan yellow cabs in a grey street scene. A classic selective desaturation effect. By MICHAEL PERKINS THE SHEER NUMBER OF PHOTOGRAPHERS IN THE WORLD pretty much insures that not too many of us are...
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SPLIT DECISION
Which version of this street shot carries the most impact…the color master shot….? By MICHAEL PERKINS THERE SEEMS TO BE A BIAS IN WHAT WE CALL STREET PHOTOGRAPHY that leans toward monochrome images, as...
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WORKS IN PROGRESS
This view of El Capitan in the Yosemite Valley has been annually tweaked with various editing tools since being taken in 2012. By MICHAEL PERKINS IN REVIEWING YOUR PAST PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK, you are bound...
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YOU’VE HAD AN EFFECT ON ME
By MICHAEL PERKINS “FULL–FUNCTION” CAMERAS (I try not to call them “real”) have made several concessions to the invasion of the mobiles over the last decade, adding features that tweak or sweeten...
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TO BE CONTINUED
By MICHAEL PERKINS AFTER YEARS OF STALLING AND DREAD, I just this week consigned my old desktop to the dustbin, and, at this writing, am taking a few days to reflect before its bright, shiny successor...
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WITH THE GREATEST OF EASE
You, too, can convert your cell phone to a, well, I don’t really know what this is… By MICHAEL PERKINS THERE IS A NATURAL INCLINATION IN THE MINDS OF MANY PHOTOGRAPHERS to fall in love with...
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RE-PURPOSING TIME
By MICHAEL PERKINS THE FIRST MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY STRUGGLED with processes and tools that seemed to stack the deck against the chances that anyone would ever, ever create even a single photograph....
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HIP TO BE SQUARE
By MICHAEL PERKINS I HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO FIGURE OUT WHY MANY HIGH-END CAMERAS lack a feature which is native to many of the most basic cel and film cameras….that is, the option to compose and shoot...
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FROM CUSTOM TO STANDARD
Just a few clicks ago in time, I might have made multiple exposures of this scene, blending them later in HDR software for increased dynamic range. Now I do it all in-camera. By MICHAEL PERKINS DIGITAL...
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LOVED INTO LONGEVITY
Winner and still champion from my personal library. By MICHAEL PERKINS SO MUCH OF THE GREATER WORLD SEEMS SO PERISHABLE under our present Great Hibernation that one’s mind goes naturally to things of...
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HUE MUST REMEMBER THIS….
By MICHAEL PERKINS DECADES INTO THE DIGITAL ERA IN PHOTOGRAPHY, we are still coming to terms with just how much the shift away from film-based technology has profoundly changed the way we make...
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THE DIAL-BACK
Lover’s Point, Monterey, California, 2012, original HDR mix. Ugh. By MICHAEL PERKINS ONE OF THE BIGGEST BENEFITS I’ve derived by overseeing this forum over the past nine years has been the great gift...
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ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE
By MICHAEL PERKINS (author of the new image collection FIAT LUX, available from NormalEye Press) FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS OF A CERTAIN AGE, that is, those who began in film and switched to digital, there was...
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