Color Gamut

Anthropogenic Crisis No. 065425 copyright 2021 Douglas Stockdale - This is the second of a two part series discussing color management. In my first article, here, there is a discussion of color calibrating a photographic process flow, usually the combination of monitor and printing equipment and related printing papers. The other aspect of color management...

Do monochrome photos require pure blacks and whites?

Nick Brandt, The Day May Break, copyright 2021 - By Douglas Stockdale This question, 'do monochrome photos require pure blacks and whites?' was a somewhat rhetorical question that was asked by a good friend of mine on social media recently. This question may relate back to the years of modern photography espoused by photo-realist like...

Dye sublimation on clear base aluminum

by Douglas Stockdale • My experimentation/play series of organic abstraction during the COVID-19 pandemic has also included some printing evaluations using the dye sublimation printing process on clear base aluminum. I have been working with three west-coast California print labs on this printing project and they all have a slight variation on what to call this process...

David Gibson – The Street Photographer’s Manual, New Edition

Review by Madhu Joseph John • Imagine yourself wandering around New York’s Canal Street, or London’s Piccadilly Circus, or a quiet neighborhood in the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico, or even a place twelve hours away across the Pacific Ocean, like the Bugis Street Market in Singapore.  You are a photography enthusiast, an amateur or wannabe...