The Digital Photo Guy

Third San Diego Natural History Museum Best of Nature Exhibit

Click this LINK to see the 72 photos that were accepted out of 1000 submissions. To see a larger slideshow, click the YouTube icon in the slideshow. My submission, Mobius Arch at Night (above,) is near the end.

If you’d like to join me on future shoots, watch this blog for future announcements. If you’d like to enter a juried contest, the San Diego Fair will start accepting on-line entries for the 2012 Fair in early March and the last day is 20 April, 2012. You can get all the info HERE.

Serious Photographers Wanted

Back in October 2011, I posted an article re: “serious photographers.” The article was actually about B&W but segued into a comment about what makes one a serious photographer. The three characteristics I listed (in keeping with Lee’s Rule of Threes) were:

1. Constantly striving to improve.
2. Open to feedback and critique.
3. Always staying true to our vision.

In keeping with this philosophy, I’ve decided to drop all paid teaching programs and concentrate on my own fine art photography. This doesn’t mean I won’t take time to help others, just that I will be much more selective. My focus will be to produce fine art print for sale, for competition and for commission.

Past students will always have priority. If you have a question, feel free to send an e-mail. My response times may become longer as I won’t be constantly monitoring my Inbox for questions.

Are “They” Seeing What You’re Seeing?

By now, serious readers know there’s monitor calibration, printer profiling, projector profiling and, if you want to get picky, even, camera profiling. Well, do you know about web browser profiling? Say, whaaa???

You perfect your photos by color correcting, adjusting levels, setting black point, adjusting Hue/Saturation, tweaking Vibrance, etc until it’s just the way you want it. But you have no control over how they’re displayed on your viewers’ monitors. They could be viewing your photos on a $12000 Eizo calibrated monitor or a $79 Walmart “We don’t need no steenkin’ calibration” special. Throw in a non-color managed web browser and who knows what they’re actually seeing.

I had planned to embed screen captures from various browsers using photos with and without profiles but decided that was too much trouble. Instead, go to this web site and roll your cursor over the test images. The take away is that you have no control over someone who is cluelessly using a non-color managed web browser but you have some modicum of control over those who are, at least, using an up-to-date browser. In any case, be sure to tag your photos before uploading them.