About
When there are so many remarkable photographers creating wonderful photographs, a compact camera photo blog has to be modest.
The photo blog images are shown watermarked, at reduced jpeg quality and much reduced size (499 pixels). The full-quality full-size images provide a richer experience.
Modest
Slip-in-your-pocket size, the overwhelming virtue of the compact digital camera, understandably requires compromise elsewhere in the camera design.

Those design compromises make some ways of working with the camera more successful than others: cropping the photo on the computer instead of when the photo was taken; or awkward post-processing to hide "purple fringing" along high contrast edges; or fusing multiple exposures to increase dynamic range or depth of field.
So one set of challenges is to learn where those limits are and to work within them quickly to make the best of the camera's capabilities.
The larger challenge is developing my viewpoint.
Prints
Modest size prints - 8"x10" and 9"x12" - look good.
Using a calibrated monitor (with 6500K color temperature, brightness, back light, and increased contrast) in a darkened room provides a good match to printed colors.
Displayed along a dark wall the prints look dark, and displayed along a bright wall the prints look good.
Some books
- Stay This Moment: The Photographs of Sam Abell. Sam Abell, 1990.
- Albert Renger-Patzsch: Joy Before The Object. Aperture 131, 1993.
- Photo-editing and presentation: a guide to image editing and presentation for photographers and visual artists. Douglas Holleley, 2009.
- Your Assignment: PHOTOGRAPHY. Douglas Holleley, 2009.
- National Audubon Society Guide to Nature Photography: Digital Edition. Tim Fitzharris, 2008.
- Icons of photography: the 20th century. Peter Stepan, 1999.
- The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age. Sylvia Wolf, 2010.
- The photograph as contemporary art. Charlotte Cotton, 2009.
- The Pleasures of Good Photographs: Essays. Gerry Badger, 2010
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