A poetic photographer is one who romanticizes photography and immerses themselves in the process of image making. In the case of still-life photographer Dana Stirling, her art is driven by a sincere passion to find her identity through photography, to capture moments in time that express more than meets the eye. Stirling has always found […]
Getting Lost is Wonderful
Photographs and text by Massimiliano Pugliese Obscurity as descent. An inner journey into unknown territories and mysterious dimensions—a place where darkness prevails. The photographer Massimiliano Pugliese got lost deliberately in these enigmatic parallel landscapes in order to look for images that registered deeply within his memory and in his Ego. The characters in these images […]
Artsy & The Artist Genome Project: New Way to Discover Art
Artsy.net is a new platform for artists, fans, galleries, and collectors, that provides visitors with an opportunity to discover, learn, research, and collect artwork. From the photographers’ perspective, we can access a massive amount of information on master photographers like Ansel Adams or Edward Weston, and use it to discover new photographers as a research […]
Mark Seawell: Why do you love landscape photography?
Exploring Photography Through Others’ Eyes, Part IV Precise-Moment.com’s fourth edition of Exposure is dedicated to landscape photographer Mark Seawell, a retired Air Force veteran and photographer that creates some of the best landscape photography from Europe all the way to the American Southwest. Seawell’s love of photography grew during his long nature walks with his […]
The Silence of the Shutter: Censoring Street Photographers
There is a dangerous trend happening in the United States today; street photographers are being harassed by law enforcement, citizens, and state governments to stop taking pictures in public places. This is becoming a setback to our freedom of speech and press, and appears to be a new form of censorship. The first instance was […]
Does Photoshop Ruin Photography?
Editing images in Photoshop is the photographers’ tool of constructing and deconstructing our photographs until it reaches our idea of perfection. However, image editing seems to be getting a bad rap recently, and it almost seems like ‘manipulation’ has become a dirty word. I noticed this recently during the controversy at the World Press Photo […]
R.I.P. Paul C. Buff, AlienBees Creator
I’m sad to announce that Paul C. Buff passed away this week at the young age of 78. Buff was an innovator of sound equipment, and became a pioneer when he introduced the first affordable studio lighting equipment that both amateur and professional photographers could afford. Buff’s entry in the market made it easier for […]
A Rare Look Inside Sebastião Salgado’s Work
Sebastião Salgado’s photography is a powerful body of work. Salgado’s aesthetic, the way in which he captures the dignity of his subjects, and the narrative he creates with his photographs have always been incredibly moving to me. When I saw the first trailer for the “The Salt of the Earth”, a documentary on Salgado and […]
Is Kodak Back?
Kodak and their yellow and red packaging were ubiquitous and recognizable during the glory days of film. Kodak had always been on the cutting edge of innovation and technology, and in fact in 1975 a Kodak engineer Steve Sasson invented the digital camera. But with bankruptcy last year and the many miscalculations along the way, […]
On The Road: Lost in CornUtopia
It’s fascinating to me that many of the photographs I’ve made were composed and captured in the flat midwestern landscape. I come from a small town in the NW part of Ohio that doesn’t have much more than open and wind-swept farm land and patchy forests left over from clearing land for crops — mostly […]