Philosophy & Reflections Archives

7 May, 2019

Dilemma Dilemma: What Shall I Use, Color or Black & White? A Short Comparison – by Andrew Morang

By Kodachromeguy

When the digital tsunami overwhelmed the world of picture-taking in the mid-2000s, I bought various digital camera and used them for color work. However, I continued to take bla...

6 May, 2019

Alex Lambrechts on Inspiration and Style – an Interview by Hamish Gill

By Hamish Gill

Alex Lambrechts is a fashion and editorial photographer with clients all over the world, to all of whom he offers a very identifiable style. Alex has recently evolved his style ...

8 April, 2019

My Colour Film Photography Workflow, or: A Rant about how Software isn’t the Enemy!

By Hamish Gill

There’s been a large amount of chatter on some of the analogue photography Facebook groups recently about whether or not it’s cheating to use software to tweak your film photos ...

17 February, 2019

1960s New York. Dad’s slides scanned – by Charles Higham

By Charles Higham

My mother presented me with a mixed collection of my late father's transparencies on one of my visits. Mostly good family photos as expected, but also photographs of a few place...

12 January, 2019

Film Photography Shows Why Private Property and Capitalist Markets Work Well – By Frank H. Wu

By frankhwu

If anyone had doubts about it, the comparison of digital photography and film photography presents a compelling argument for the norms of private property and the capitalist mar...

8 January, 2019

Do We Need to Know What We’re Looking At? – By Frank H. Wu

By frankhwu

I recently took two tours that revealed different philosophies about how we look at the world around us. At the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, there are no title cards for t...

1 January, 2019

Motivation in Your Photography or The Importance of A Project – By Julian Higgs

By julianhiggs

It is often said that the best way to improve something, anything that you do creatively is to give yourself a project. A self set goal that focuses your creative energies onto ...

10 December, 2018

A Portrait of a Violin Maker, and some reflections on shooting what I enjoy

By Hamish Gill

On Thursday last week I spent half the day taking photos of a man who makes and restores violins. It was, to say the least, an enjoyable experience, but it also felt like a time...

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