JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010

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Portfolios
Domestic Vacations by Julie Blackmon
After Platinum by Tom Millea
Chemograms & Nolangrams by Nolan Preece
Books, Pages & Tablets by Olivia Parker
Stone: The Slit Canyons by Bruce Barnbaum

Technical Articles
Color Correction Made Easier by Ctein

Commentary
Kodachrome & Culture by Abhay Sharma & Paul Sergeant
Tribute: Genius Behind the Lens by Jerry O’Neill
Transitions by David Vestal

Innovations
D-Roller, X-Rite Color Checker Passport, Purosol & more

Julie Blackmon photography, photo technique

Domestic Vacations by Julie Blackmon

Editor Paul Schranz interviews Julie Blackmon, whose Domestic Vacations portfolio depicts family life with an enchanting twist. She reveals some of the methods she employs to light her amazing group portraits.

Bruce Barnbaum photography, professional landscape images, photo technique magazine

Stone: The Slit Canyons by Bruce Barnbaum

Bruce Barnbaum narrates his discovery and capture of pristine black & white images found in his Stone: the Slit Canyons portfolio of Arizona’s Antelope Canyon. He also explains his two solution compensating process for developing black & white film.

Olivia Parker professional photographic montage, photo technique magazine

Books, Pages & Tablets by Olivia Parker

Olivia Parker’s Books, Pages and Tablets portfolio offers illuminating glimpses of the relationship of the visual and the verbal. Also illuminating is her text, which offers insights into the photographer’s use of light and shadow within compositions of found objects from the realms of history and science.

Nolan Preece, darkroom, alternative printing, photo technique magazine

Chemograms & Nolangrams by Nolan Preece

A portfolio of “Nolangrams” introduces Nolan Preece’s beautiful experiments in cameraless photography. His text expounds upon their philosophy and methodology.

Tom Millea, platinum photography, printing, photo technique magazine

After Platinum by Tom Millea

Tom Millea relates the journey of exploration that took him from platinum printing to a new photographic vision. When the process he had known and perfected became impossible to continue, he met the challenge of learning to see and work digitally.

Kodachrome film, photographic film and culture, photo technique magazine

Kodachrome & Culture by Abhay Sharma & Paul Sergeant

Abhay Sharma and Paul Sergeant give readers a photographic milestone, as our Kodachrome is taken away… The writers present a capsule of the history and science of the film, its inventors, and its manufacturer, Eastman Kodak.

Ctein, practical color balance for digital photography, photo technique magazine

Practical Color Balance by Ctein

In Color Correction Made Easier, Ctein gives answers to some pressing questions about digital Color Balance. His expanded technical article offers step-by-step procedures and software suggestions.















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