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I hold a pair of contradictory beliefs. Well, probably I hold lots of pairs of contradictory beliefs, but for the purposes of this post I’m concentrating on this pair:
1) Every photographer leaves something of themselves in their work, and
2) You can’t tell what the photographer intended, or believed, or was thinking, by just looking [...]

This morning’s experience has convinced me to get on and give continuous ink for the K7 inkset a try. Four cart changes for three prints (one before each print and one because the tab on the cart which holds it in place broke).
As the K7 cartridges do not install without a head clean (it [...]

Dave Beckerman:
What advice do you have for a novice creative professional/photographer?
….don’t think of yourself as a novice or a professional. Don’t do anything different as an amateur or a professional. Just follow the obsession. If you’re not obsessed – then no advice will help.
What inspires you to create?
At this point – it’s just a [...]

An endearing British habit is the signing of petitions. People in other countries march in the streets. We sign little slips of paper which get stuck in a book and given to the policeman standing outside 10 Downing Street.
The current Govt. likes modernising things so it has modernised the whole petetion process. [...]

This post is about a competition, but before I go there, a couple of words about competiton in general. You’ve probably seen Paul Butzi’s post with the onward links to the writing of several other bloggers about rejection, comparisons and competition. I particularly liked Paul Lester’s explaination of why he wasn’t a competitor. [...]

In their letter Zeiss said of their modern 50mm Sonnar:
Because of the above mentioned classical characteristic of the lens the best focus position in the object space can not be kept exactly constant for all f-stop settings.

I wondered quite how bad this could be, so I devised a simple test. This is the test [...]

Well, for a while, anyway :-)
I said in reply to a comment yesterday that each of the contending printers was probably best in some regard. Here is a quick summary of my, secondhand, information:
HP Z3100
Best at: process control. Doubts about: low tone gamut performance on matte paper. Worst at: price (not bad [...]

I was digging around researching the HP Designjet Z series printers a little more. There is definitely something to be understood about the way they have optimised gamut for the lighter tones (when it is the darker tones that I’m already struggling with), when I noticed the pricing in the UK. I had [...]

This image:

has opened up the whole question of what size to use for ‘printing’ for the web again. The version I’ve put above is my usual 650 pixels, which, you’ll probably agree, doesn’t really work. Here is a 900 pixel version (that is already over 400kb), which just begins to show how the [...]

When I last left off thinking about a new printer, Epson was ahead by a short neck, but all the horses were in the race (not forgetting there are two Epson horses, nos. 3800 and 4800).
More digging has produced the following:
- the Epson 3800 is the only one of the printers that I can easily [...]