What I Miss Most About Film
Make sure you don’t miss a single Photofocus post – point your feed reader to the free Photofocus RSS Feed here and subscribe. Post & Photo by Joe Farace – Follow Joe on Twitter These days I don’t...
View ArticleStop Romanticizing About The Good Old Film Days – They Weren’t That Good
Photo by Scott Bourne – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Creative Commons The other day we posted about a nifty plug-in from Digital Film Tools that emulates film. The reaction was amusing. All 12 of...
View ArticleExplaining Film to Kids
I was having just this conversation the other day. I think this video captures the experience of shooting film with zero snark and just a touch of nostalgia. It seems like it wasn’t that long ago...
View ArticleThere and Back Again, Iceland
Where to start? “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” Hmmm. Like New Zealand, parts of Iceland certainly feel like Middle Earth; more on that in a future post. I suppose, like Bilbo, it is...
View Article250 Seconds of Storytelling Inspiration
It is not very long, but this video walks through the history of cinema while inspiring the watcher with quotes from famous films. You need not be a filmmaker to be inspired; just a storyteller....
View ArticleFor Film and Video … What is a Producer?
This post is the first in a series that takes our readers behind the scenes of Bokeh, an independent feature film. To get us started, I think it best to explain my role in the production, as it should...
View Article3 Reasons to Add Grain in Lightroom
Grain is a word used in film photography to describe the fineness of detail a film or paper is capable of capturing. Landscape photographers typically want the finest detail possible, which comes from...
View ArticleNeed A Digital Film Stock? There’s a Plugin for That
This past week I had a chance to get reacquainted with one of my longtime favorite (but obscure) image plugins. The aptly named Film Stocks plugin from Digital Film Tools simulates the look of many...
View ArticleExplaining Film to Kids
I was having just this conversation the other day. I think this video captures the experience of shooting film with zero snark and just a touch of nostalgia. It seems like it wasn’t that long ago when...
View ArticleThere and Back Again, Iceland
Some months ago, my friend Geoffrey Orthwein told me he was working on a screenplay with Andrew Sullivan. They hoped to shoot it in the summer of 2014 and asked if I would be interested in producing...
View ArticleWhat is a Producer?
Producer is a title which is often misunderstood. We will start by clarifying the various applications of the title. As you read, please keep in mind the following caveats. First, it is not uncommon...
View Article250 Seconds of Storytelling Inspiration
It is not very long, but this video walks through the history of cinema while inspiring the watcher with quotes from famous films. You need not be a filmmaker to be inspired; just a storyteller. The...
View Article3 Reasons to Add Grain in Lightroom
Grain is a word used in film photography to describe the fineness of detail a film or paper is capable of capturing. Landscape photographers typically want the finest detail possible, which comes from...
View ArticleAcquiring images for Photoshop with a scanner
Understanding Photoshop is a biweekly column that takes an in-depth look at how digital photographs are built and manipulated. It is a college-level course in plain English for free at Photofocus. To...
View ArticleReview – Digitally Converting Slides and Negatives with Jumbl
Of all the benefits to learn and practice the art of photography, the number one objective held sacred among professionals and enthusiasts worldwide is the preservation of memories; those occasions of...
View ArticleIt Isn’t Film vs Digital Any Longer
With the popularity of film finding its way into photographer’s hands, headlines are still reading, Why Film is Better than Digital and Comparing Film vs Digital. Isn’t the Debate Over? At the starting...
View ArticleWarren Zevon in Atlanta
I’ve been making photographs for most of my life. I grew up in Boise, Idaho. Then, there weren’t many concerts by famous groups because Boise was too small and kinda hard to get to. Of course we all...
View ArticleTips for Restoring Scanned Slides and Negatives
If you’ve had the pleasure of converting film slides of days gone by to the digital format, you may have experienced that bittersweet feeling of excitement mingled with a tinge of disappointment upon...
View ArticlePhotofocus Podcast May 14, 2016 — Inspiration with Marco Larousse, Chris...
On this #Inspiration episode of the Photofocus podcast Marco invited two guests and discussed these topics: Get to know an inspirational photographer: This month our guest Monika Andrae introduces you...
View Article100 Years/100 Shots
Here’s a journey through the past 100 years of cinema. This video was crafted by Jacob T. Swinney, and he picked what he felt was the most memorable shot from each year. “While many of these shots are...
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