Journal
Notes on seeing, shooting and cutting. Not gear reviews. The gear turns up when it changed the picture and stays out when it did not.
One lens
If you cannot master one lens you will not master several. Nearly half of everything on this site was made at a single focal length, counted out of the files.
The walk guide
Everything I say out loud on a workshop walk, written down and free. Settings you set once, ten things to look for, how to ask a stranger, and why standing still beats walking further.
Six folders, three collections
I cut the site from 516 frames to 243. Almost none of it was about the pictures being bad.
Thirty-six frames
What changes when the count is finite: shooting a roll through New York and Miami, and waiting a week to find out whether you got it.
Colour, managed
Log footage, wide gamut, and the trap that catches everyone: your conversion table can be correct while the picture on screen is wrong. How to measure instead of guess.
Seeing in monochrome
Three quarters of my archive has no colour in it, and that isn't a filter applied at the end. What actually changes when you commit to black and white before the shutter.
Steam, rain, and the slow shutter
New York gives you a smoke machine on every other corner and a mirror every time it rains. How to expose for both, and why the worst weather makes the best frames.
Seventy people in Chicago
A photo walk at LeicaPalooza, hosted by Tamarkin Camera. Nearly all of them had come for the answer to one question.
How a reel gets cut
Forty clips in, one minute out. The selection rules, the spine, and why the grade is the last thing to touch, not the first.