Essays
- Alternative photographic parameters: a format-independent approach
- As photographers we are all aware of the familiar parameters associated with the craft: F-numbers, ISO settings and focal lengths. However, for these parameters to mean anything in a photographic sense, we need to know the size of our sensor or film. And to make matters more confusing, you could take the exact same photo using a variety of sensor sizes and corresponding parameters. This essay is an exercise to create a system of photographic parameters that does not depend on the size of the sensor.
- The scene-referred workflow – a proposal
- A digital photography workflow is introduced that is centered around scene-referred images. In this workflow, images from the camera are first transformed into true-to-reality scene-referred images before they subjected to creative processing steps. For real-world usage, I present instructions for creating scene-referred images in popular RAW converters, and I explain how the tools available from this site fit in.
- Sensor formats: does size matter?
- Few topics lead to such fanatical discussion amongst gear-minded photographers as their choice of sensor size. In this essay, I investigate the benefits of larger or smaller sensors, and I attempt to derive a set of criteria to determine whether using a larger or smaller sensor size is beneficial for a given style of photography.
