Oshkosh, July 2018
I attend the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) annual convention in Oshkosh, Wisconsin every year. The EAA calls it AirVenture, but most pilots still just call it “Oshkosh.” For pilots and...
View ArticleThe Art of Black & White Photography – Workshop Review
A week ago, I returned from Montana where I had attended a black & white photography workshop, “The Art of Black & White Photography,” June 9-14, sponsored by Photographer’s Formulary, in...
View ArticleFilm Photography – What It Isn’t & What It Is
In June 2018, along with fellow member Steven Tontic, I gave a presentation on film photography to the Lake County Camera Club (LCCC) . My portion of the presentation covered what film photography is...
View ArticleButterflies and Macro
Back in mid-July, I visited the Chicago Botanic Garden with neighbor and fellow photographer, Laura Hedien. Laura and I have frequently gone out on photo excursions to shoot a myriad of subjects,...
View ArticleShips and Trains at Night, and Film Reciprocity Failure
Tall Ships America’s Challenge Race Series returned to the Great Lakes, and Kenosha, Wisconsin acted as a host city for the weekend of 1-4 August 2019. Seven sailing vessels participated in the...
View ArticleFilm Digitizing Gotcha!
As my earlier posts have noted, I have been exploring various options to digitize my film negatives and slides. I have an Epson V700 flatbed scanner, a Plustek Opticfilm 120 scanner, and have also...
View ArticleLight Painting – Sculpting with Light
On September 5, 2019, I was invited by my local camera club, the Lake County Camera Club (affiliated with the CACCA, the Chicago Area Camera Club Association) to give a presentation at the monthly...
View ArticlePortrait Workshops
In 2020, I tried something new, and a bit outside what I considered my comfort zone. In November of 2019, Scott Detweiler gave a presentation to the Lake County Camera Club, entitled Fine Art /...
View ArticlePlane Perspectives on Composition
In the aftermath of a recent still-life studio session, I experienced a mini-epiphany for me in regards to photo composition. Please don’t run away now – this will not be another regurgitation of the...
View ArticlePre-visualization, Getting Lucky, or Cheating? – Evolution of an Image
Ansel Adams, among other photographers, advocated for the use of “pre-visualization,” wherein the photographer has the final print image in mind before he meters, composes, and executes the original...
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