One of the pioneers in the
business of digital technology is J.W. Burkey. He operates an eight-person
studio out of Dallas, Texas, and now works with his wife, Cathy, who
has worked as an art buyer and a stock photoedit...
Even if you have vowed to never get involved in the digital imaging revolution, you've got to admit that you probably are amazed at some of the seamless things that can be done with photo editing programs like Adobe Photoshop.
In the last several decades I have glanced at and often closely looked over literally hundreds of different equipment carrying bags at dozens of trade shows in this country and at the largest one of all, photokina in Germany. In addition, I have tested at...
You know what a good photograph looks like, right? It's the kind that we enjoy making. Just like those created by our favorite photographers, whether it's Ansel Adams, André Kertesz, or Harry Callahan. I find that when I'm stuck in...
Anyone who reads the ads in photo magazines even occasionally, will be well aware of the 35mm cameras designated as "professional." Just about every manufacturer offers at least one and generally prices it far above its "amateur" counterparts. These models hold a lot of...
Over the past few years, I've covered more and more digital imaging technology, as it completes its total worldwide domination of the professional photography marketplace. Like a lot of you, I still maintain a full black and white darkroom, and the...
There is much more to black and white photography than simply an absence of color. Maybe we wouldn't feel this way if the first photographs had been made in full color, but that didn't happen and, like many photographers, I grew up admiring the...
To photographers black and white has an historic significance, for many an aesthetic advantage, and it is a unique way to photograph. Distinguished altogether from color by different films, papers, and processes. When photography is digitized, black and...