95% of the time someone complains about their prints being too dark, it’s a simple solution: their monitor is too bright. That’s old news. Here, on the other hand, is something you might not have discovered before: I had my prints suddenly go too dark just last week, and found an unexpected solution. History: I’ve […]

Here is the bottom line: your photographic prints ARE going to change over time. Period. You may be able to put that off for maybe 1000 years, provided you are so famous that you can get together with Corbis and Bill Gates, and get them stored in sub-zero temperatures underground in the Corbis photo vault […]

  When the Muse is on vacation, and my work fails to meet my own expectations, or at least my hopes, the nice thing about photography is that one can set the shooting aside, and practice the printing, or read and ponder, or study the work of others. In some ways, more than the other […]

Ramblings about photography as art- Art itself is about frozen time. The amount of time varies, but is frozen to some greater or lesser extent. A book always reads the same; a movie always plays the same; a concerto always uses the same notes; a sculpture is locked in form. Yet each new reading, each […]

People ask me all the time, “Say, Tracy… What is the secret to making great photos?”   Well, I cannot speak for other photographers, since each of us has a different technique, but here’s mine:  

People ask me all the time, “Say, Tracy… What is the secret to making great photos?”   Well, I cannot speak for other photographers, since each of us has a different technique, but here’s mine:  

There is an amazing amount of  hand-wringing going on these days about the 4 billion cell-phone cameras out there in the world. “It’s going to ruin photography.” “We’re doomed.” “Nobody appreciates quality anymore.” High-end camera sales are going in the tank!” Get a grip people. 170 years ago, only a few people had cameras; then […]

The show opened Friday, July 19, and was a success, with several hundred people showing up.  Here are a few snapshots my wife took. (Thanks to my readers for your interest !  🙂               I’m pleased to say that the red image on the left, above, is now in […]

NOTE: this is NOT about cheating and canceling CC, but keeping the software. It’s about reverting to your legal, legit paid-for copy of Photoshop CS6. If you don’t do this, and merely cancel Creative Cloud, what you’ll likely get when you try to run your legal, legit paid-for copy of Photoshop CS6 is some kind of […]

What do I use to sign photographs? Well, if you’re printing on matte paper, you already know that you can use pretty much whatever you like: pencil, pen, markers… …but if you’ve tried signing on the “resin coated” papers (glossy, luster, satin, semi-matte) you know that none of those work at all well. The solution […]