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sRGB is the Color Space of the Web: Never Forget It!

Serious photographers have gained at least a beginning understanding of color spaces and their importance in appropriately representing and displaying color images. We’ve learned that the smallest color space, sRGB, is the default color space for images for web display. I’ve recently learned an abject lesson in what happens when one posts images to the […]

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Lessons from Photographing a Redwood Forest

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic provided me with the opportunity to visit and re-visit a tract of redwood forest located near my home. The forest provided a challenge to capture images with my camera. I’ve recently added a gallery of images to my website (see Recovering Redwood Forest). A forest is a challenging place to photograph.

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Monochrome Photography in the Digital Age

My Approach to Monochrome Conversion With the exception of one or two very specialized cameras, digital cameras capture images in color. Conversion from color to “black & white” occurs in post-processing. In post processing, we can experiment with use of an infinite array of color filters on any image to improve tonal separation. This is

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