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I recently had an opportunity to help a new Swedish friend, photographer Janne Lindahl, with an article covering a great deal of the basics of color management for photography. It's written in Swedish, naturally, but Google Translate does an almost-perfect job of translating, which was...
My best article yet for ELEMENTS is the featured piece, forty pages and twenty images. Interview questions and answers. Published April 4th, 2024. The primary drawback is that it's not viewable without a subscription, then neither would it be with a print-only pub! The magazine and its...
I have always found the UI's and the built-in documentation for Google's many software offerings (excepting their travel agent-like program) to be monumentally confusing. Today I finally found a support person (by chatting with no fewer than seven different ones) who knew her stuff...
On a personal, and education-related note, a beautifully done article about the 54-year history of my major at the University of California at Berkeley (i.e. at Cal) has recently been published in both the printed and online versions of Breakthroughs Magazine. It contains two of my...
Addendum: Nov. 4, 2023 (at the end)
I just got the new Kipon Mamiya 645 lens to GFX smart adapter in the U.S. Mail from their U.S. distributor in Washington State, 6 days after ordering it. Unfortunately the Focal Length metadata situation is royally screwed up. The expected failure...
Suppose that you're checking some of the key settings of your Fujifilm GFX 100S by looking at your custom "My Menu" tab in the main menu area of your camera and you see this (this is how mine is set up):
What kind of RAW file will the camera be saving when you trip the shutter?
The interface says...
A pleasant surprise, thirty-two years after publication of my book Joseph Holmes Natural Light.
https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2022/03/book-reviews-4/
Thank you Tim Parkin, and on landscape, an online magazine from the UK for landscape photographers. ...
On January 17th, 2022, photographer Matt Payne published on his site the podcast titled "Printmaking In Landscape Photography - A Panel Conversation". This is a conversation organized by Matt with three photographers known for their special work in photographic printmaking: Michael Strickland,...
This L-plate from Rogeti (pictures below), a new player in the camera L-plate market appealed to me with a couple of aspects of its design — the diagonal brace for stiffening of the vertical arm of the one-piece plate (my preference to a full-wide, two-part plate design) and the inclusion of a...
I am pleased to announce a new feature of eight of my images in the Gallery section of the very lovely Elements magazine of fine landscape photography has just been published.
Here is the cover of this third issue ever, the May 2021 issue, from the publishers of Medium Format Magazine. The...
Updated June 30, July 2, August 8, 2021 and April 5, 2022
Including:
Zoom Ratios/Percentages for Live Viewing in the EVF and on the LCD;
EVF and LCD Viewable Regions While Zoomed In to Various Degrees;
Playback Mode Viewing Characteristics/System Features;
Suitability of Live View and...
After many months of work in preparation, today I have announced, here on my Profiles page, the following:
1) The DCam Series — Five new RGB working spaces which I have designed specifically for use with digital camera captures, in a series of gamut volumes and shapes to meet every digital...
My Test Results
Testing primarily with two Epson wide format printers, the Stylus Pro 9900 and the SP 11880, I have run more than 150 experiments, carefully conceived to reveal which methods of printing from Photoshop CS5 on the Mac work correctly and reliably so.
This topic is one, which...
which I recently did for SilberStudios.tv has been posted at: http://www.silberstudios.tv/videos/joseph-holmes-landscape-photos
Check it out!
FAST PHOTOSHOP WITH 32-BIT CODE AND LARGE IMAGES?
SUPER-FAST BOOT AND APPLICATION LAUNCHING?
Since the dawn of Photoshop, those of us interested in making high-quality images (images requiring a large pixel count) have had to suffer...
In response to my long articles on medium format quality issues, I have received, either directly via e-mail, or from postings to discussion forums, a number of comments from other photographers which echo my own experiences with quality control and/or my expectations for off-the-shelf quality...
ADDENDUM ADDED at the end, April 24, 2009
It's really a gigantic topic, but I want to share some of the important things that I've had to learn during my recent efforts to get an optimally-performing medium format digital camera system built and to learn how to use it effectively. My take on this...
MEDIUM FORMAT DIGITAL CAMERA OPTICAL PRECISION
or
PROBLEMS IN THE LAND OF PRECISION
Mainly written in early March, 2008
Completed July 8, 2008
Updated and Published April 5, 2009
Incorrect Image Link Fixed April 15 HERE
Thanks are in order for Elmo Sapwater of ImagingInsider.com and Michael...
Update: July 2, 2009: As of late June, a version has been created which does run in 10.5 on PPC, so a release should be imminent. Please refer to Mark Dubovoy's new article on Luminous-Landscape.com about Helicon Focus, which acknowledges a small part of the work I did on Helicon Focus and comes...
UPDATE August 30, 2007 -- Movies of Eight 3D Gamut Comparisons Added
UPDATE October 23, 2007 -- Details of the inkset(s) for all four of the new machines has been updated in three places as noted with an asterisk *.
Epson Stylus Pro 11880, 9880, 7880, 4880, Epson UltraChrome K3 with Vivid...
A long article based on an interview of myself by Peter Eastway, Publisher of Better Photography magazine in Australia, has just been published.
Better Photography
This outstanding how-to magazine from Australia features a 20-page article which I wrote recently on ten of my favorite imaging tips. Copies are available on newstands there, by subscription, and online at www.betterphotoshoptechniques.com. The newstand price shown, $24.95 per copy, is in...
It will be my pleasure to be guest instructor at the Fourth Annual Photography and Fine Art Printing Summit with Alain Briot and Uwe Steinmueller from November 10th to 13th, 2006, in Page, Arizona. Please visit Alain's page or my workshops page for more info on this and my other workshops,...
May 10, 2005 (minor revisions 5-11-05)
(See supplemental notes at the end 11-13-05 and 2-10-06)
Major News for the Digital Printmaking Community:
EPSON 9800, EPSON 7800, EPSON 4800
From Joseph Holmes http://www.josephholmes.com
New EPSON Printers and Inkset Announced Today, Tuesday, May 10, 2005
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