January: Photographing African American Children
Technical Data
Photo taken with a Nikon SLR film camera and Nikkor 85mm f1.8 lens; tripod, natural light and fill-flash with -2 stops flash output adjustment. Approximate exposure 1/125 second at f11 - Fuji Sensia 200 transparency film. No lens filters were used.
Film was scanned using Minolta Dimage series film scanner. Photo file was routinely optimized using Photoshop; levels and curves, color balance, sharpening, cropping and dust spot removal using clone tool. I use a Mac for all photo processing. Read more...
Feature Articles
This Month's Gallery Spotlight: Gordon Parks
"AmericanConsidered to be Parks's signature image, was taken in Washington, D.C., in 1942, during the photographer's fellowship with the Farm Security Administration, a government agency set up by President Roosevelt to aid farmers in despair. "It's the first professional image I ever made," Parks says, "created on my first day in Washington." Read more
Featured Book
 Reflections in BlackA History of Black Photographers1840 to the Present W.W. Norton, August 2000, 348 p., over600 photographsReading the subtitle, A History of Black Photographers, one may expect an equivalent to Lewis W. Hine's Children at Work, but the book by Deborah Willis - a curator of photography at the Smithsonian Institution who has earlier taught photography and the history of photography at New York University, the City University of New York and the Brooklyn Museum - offers quite a different content. Read more |
