Sep 06 2007
Abruzzo Sheep - Photograph by Jeff Curto
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Photographers should always use the right tool for the job, right? But what if you’re stuck with the wrong tool in the right situation? You just wing it, that’s what, and sometimes something interesting happens. That was the case with me this summer when [...]
Aug 30 2007
Montepulciano, Toscana, 1998 - Photograph by Jeff Curto
Yes, it’s the age old question… does size matter? Does the size of the prints we make change how we view the images? Have you ever made a large print of your work? Here’s an image that I recently had The Print Lab print to a very [...]
Jul 12 2007
Summer’s lazy days put me in the mind of childhood and a recent encounter with some ideas by Pablo Picasso and some photographs by French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) made me think about how important a childlike sense of wonder is to photographers.
Picasso said:
“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an [...]
Jul 07 2007
An image isn’t finished until it starts to feel like what you saw. Here is a brief look at the way I approached the post-production (what we used to call “darkroom work”) of this recent image from Gubbio, a marvelously medieval town in northern Umbria, Italy. The differences are subtle, but the idea is to [...]
Jul 04 2007
Preconceived notions about what you’re going to photograph can keep you from finding good images that you may have missed. This episode of Camera Position examines how I nearly fell into that trap in Gubbio, a beautiful town in Italy’s Umbria province.
Images of La Festa Dei Ceri, Gubbio, Umbria by Jeff Curto
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