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Sensor Format Size and Image Quality

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In the last 10 or 12 years, I’ve owned and made many images with APS-C (with crop factors between 1.3 and 1.5), full frame (FF), and 33×44 (MF, or crop MF, depending on your level of precision – and maybe your agenda). During that time, I’ve also used larger MF cameras and a 72×96 mm […]

Photographic Techniques

How AI Tools are Making Retouching Easier Than Ever

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A few months ago, I wrote about AI art, and what it means for the industry of photography. Admittedly, in the last 6 months or so, my take on the topic feels a bit dated, and I’m far more concerned than ever with the technology advancing so rapidly and what it means for the industry […]

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Testing Davinci Resolve’s New AI Transcription

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I’ve written before about how important interview transcription is to a documentary editing workflow, and, as an occasional documentary editor, I’ve tried countless different solutions in search of an option that works for me. In my film school days, I’d just open up an interview in Final Cut, play it back in real-time, and type […]

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How to Expose Raw Files – Part 2

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This is Part 2 of an article published last week. For the best understanding, please read part one by clicking here. Last week, we talked a bit about how the camera exposes raw files and used an analogy of rainwater and buckets to explain that. Today, we’re going to dive into the topic more and […]

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How to Expose Raw Files – Part 1

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Throughout the two-century history of photography, the subject of exposure has been repeatedly addressed and hotly debated. In the film era, people talked about exposure and B&W’s negative development in two ways. At first, when most of the photography was done with sheets and plates, it was “expose for the shadows, develop for the highlights”, […]

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