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Pure White Backgrounds

Nikon D810 with Sigma 180mm f/2.8 macro; 0.4 sec, f/29, ISO 200, +2 EV, lighting described in main text, no crop There’s a school of nature photography exemplified by Meet Your Neighbors that is natural […]

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Printing 2 of X: Renaming (a lot of) Color Profiles on the Mac

With paper comes profiles.  With sample packs of paper come LOTS of profiles.  Profiles which invariably have unpleasant names, like “HFAPhoto_CanPro1000_PK_HahnemuehlePhotoSilkBaryta310” which neither rolls trippingly off the tongue nor makes it easy to pick “Hahnemuehle […]

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Printing 1 of X: Testing (and Testing (and Testing (and Testing…)))

In which our Hero (ahem) seeks out the work of earlier giants, absorbs mentorship, tries and fails, learns that obvious things are obvious even to him (after failing), and muses on the proper order of […]

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Printing 0 of X: Introduction to a series

First Print on Canon PRO-1000, 4×6, Evan Robinson, scanned 2017-05-11 As part of a two-and-a-half week road trip to the Southwest, this year I attended the penultimate Moab Photography Symposium.  The symposium itself (and the […]

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Photography, Storage, and Backups

“Angel Wings”, by Evan Robinson, Ruby Beach, WA, 2016-07-22 (Originally uploaded to my personal blog @ Mischievous Ramblings II) Upon returning from my most recent photo workshop (five days on the Olympic Peninsula with David Muench, […]

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Complete Genetic Makeover

I joke that I am a Canon shooter because of genetics: my father shot Canon gear, so I shoot Canon gear.  My first SLR was my father’s Canon F-1.  The first one I picked out […]

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