Five simple rules for working with models. Not being creepy is only number two...

A Kodak letter got scanned and passed around the Internet and it looks like another emulsion is gone -- Ektachrome 400X this time. They make some pains to explain that families of film other than 400X are not actually dead in the letter.

I was talking with some other photographers lately and the subject of lighting came up. The studio we were at had 6,000 watt seconds of power, including several power packs and some Alien Bees monolights. One of the other photographers asked me how I felt about the religious question of Packs vs. Monolights

It least twice so far, I've had dreams about expired film.

I talk a little about my stockpile of discontinued film.

There's a myth going around that all of California is like Los Angeles, largely because that's what people who live outside the state see from TV shows set in California. From this, one makes the logical deduction that therefore there are no seasons in the entire state of California...

Kodak announced that they are dropping EPR, EPN, and HIE in december.

Eclipse from wirehead and Vimeo . I got up in the middle of the night to take some pictures of the eclipse. Here is some video I made out of some of the digital shots I took. I also took some film pictures, but those need to be developed. first.

Why film "looks" better at different speeds I wrote previously about all of the possibilities for when you change the film speed on your camera. Right now, I'd like to address why people think a film "looks" better at different speeds. To the left is a few 6-stop segments of Tri-X (in blue) and T…

As I mentioned in March, Nikon would eventually have to go full-frame . Well, they finally went there and announced the D3 . At least they went all the way to full frame instead of copping out at 1.1x or trying to make a 1.4x or 1.3x camera for lenses intended for a 1.5x sensor. The neat part about…