Purpose
This page is my blog. It has information on recently added content and also contains my writings on landscape photography.
New: Summer Solstice
The days around the summer solstice are the most difficult time of year for landscape photography. The sun rises early and sets late. From its first appearance on the northeastern horizon, it rises quickly, reaching about 75 degrees above the horizon at mid-day. Not long after sunrise, the sun’s light is glaring from high overhead;
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New: Black Point Beach
Continuing my effort to share a bit of the light, land and ocean of northern Sonoma County, California, I’ve added a new gallery to my website: Black Point Beach. The images in this gallery provide a glimpse into this fabulous beach and the coastal environment across the seasons of the year and across the past
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New: Pebble Beach
After a long quiescent period, I’ve added a new gallery to my website. I’ve found at least six different beaches in California with the name “Pebble Beach.” The most famous is the beach and golf links on the beautiful Monterey Peninsula. But, there are at least five others. The Pebble Beach closest to my home
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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Book Review: Charlie Waite, Behind the Photograph
Citation: Charlie Waite, Behind the Photograph: Charlie Waite’s Favourite Photographs and the Story of How They Were Made, © 2019, Flung Publishing, Gillingham, Dorset, UK. ISBN 978-0-9570830-1-1. This recent book from Charlie Waite includes 64 of his favorite images, most in color and most presented in a two-page spread with the image on the left
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Influential Photography Books: Part II
Part II: Contemporary Photographers Robert Adams The 1970s brought the exhibition New Topographics: Man-Altered Landscape at the George Eastman House in Rochester. The show featured the work of ten then young photographers who were choosing to capture landscape as it is used and abused by man rather than the idyllic views of Ansel Adams. One
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Influential Photography Books: Part I
Part I: The Craft of Photography & Early- to Mid-20th Century Greats In retirement, my avocation is landscape photography, particularly of the unmatched North Coast of California. As I’ve sought to transform myself from a high-tech R&D leader to a photographer, I have accumulated about 250 volumes of monographs, collected works, histories, biographies and instructional
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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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New Website
The New Year 2019 brings a new website for Frank Field Photography. I’ve moved from featuring both my color and monochrome images of the North Coast of California to focus on my monochrome work. As my photography has evolved, I find myself ever-more interested in “black and white” photography. It is time to dedicate my