Camera Position 33 : What’s on Your Bookshelf?

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This episode is the first in an irregular series that explores important photography books that should be in every photographer’s book collection. The first book is The Daybooks of Edward Weston, Weston’s remarkable series of journal entries about his life in photography.

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Project Photoshop Lightroom – Adobe’s U.S. tour featuring photographer Colin Finlay talking about his work and Adobe’s Julianne Kost demonstrating Adobe’s new product, Photoshop Lightroom.

See this PDF for information about the October 5 and 6 presentation of Project Photoshop Lightroom at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois

A Good Problem

Well, if you’ve been trying to get to Camera Position over the last few days and have had a hard time, join the crowd. It seems that the Podcast became popular enough that I was running my web server’s bandwidth allotment dry. That reached a head last night when the server shut down.

I think I’ve got it all sorted now, and a new podcast is on the way in a day or two, so thanks for hanging in there!

-Jeff

Camera Position 32 : Gallery Talk

Promo card for my exhibition

This week, we go into the “field” to a gallery talk I gave at an exhibition of my work. My comments give some background on my 17-year photographic exploration of Italy and the show, “Evidence of Hands, The Mediated Landscape of Italy.”

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Camera Position 31 : Editing as Creative Process

How many images does it take to say what you want to say? Editing your work to create a group of images that projects a coherent voice is an important part of the photographic process. Honest and unmerciful editors have the most effective stories.

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Contact Sheet 3 - Final Edit

Leave-Behind package

Santa Fe Center for Photography – home of the Creative Edge workshop

Info about my gallery talk at Waubonsee Community College on September 19

Camera Position 30 : After The Shutter Closes

Once we get back to the darkroom-digital or chemical-how do we maximize the vision and idea we had when we were in the field making the photograph? We explore the post-production side of the creative process using a photograph of Civita di Bagnoreggio.

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Civita di Bagnoreggio, Umbria, 2006 – Photograph by Jeff Curto

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