David W Scott
@davidwscott.bsky.social
Toronto-based lover of photography, filmmaking and writing. Gets distracted by retro computers, science fiction, and the real world.
Book recommendation: A Village Lost and Found. Brian May and Elena Vidal. Frances Lincoln Limited and The London Stereoscopic Company, 2009. May (of Queen fame) and Vidal collected the lost complete set of stereo views capturing contemporary village life in the 1850s. Box set Includes stereo viewer.
December 5, 2024 at 12:19 AM
Book recommendation: A Village Lost and Found. Brian May and Elena Vidal. Frances Lincoln Limited and The London Stereoscopic Company, 2009. May (of Queen fame) and Vidal collected the lost complete set of stereo views capturing contemporary village life in the 1850s. Box set Includes stereo viewer.
Book recommendation: Making It Up: Photographic Fictions. Marta Weiss. Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2018. Survey of staged or constructed photographs from the Victoria and Albert. The verisimilitude of photography combines with pure creativity to suggest narratives and illustrate real and imagined events.
December 4, 2024 at 3:04 AM
Book recommendation: Making It Up: Photographic Fictions. Marta Weiss. Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2018. Survey of staged or constructed photographs from the Victoria and Albert. The verisimilitude of photography combines with pure creativity to suggest narratives and illustrate real and imagined events.
Book recommendation:
Creative Elements. Eddie Ephraums. 21st Century Publishing Limited, 1993. Deconstructs photos, going from original unaltered capture to finished print, mapping exposure, contrast and toning adjustments. Covers darkroom technique but creative choices apply to digital equally.
Creative Elements. Eddie Ephraums. 21st Century Publishing Limited, 1993. Deconstructs photos, going from original unaltered capture to finished print, mapping exposure, contrast and toning adjustments. Covers darkroom technique but creative choices apply to digital equally.
December 2, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Book recommendation:
Creative Elements. Eddie Ephraums. 21st Century Publishing Limited, 1993. Deconstructs photos, going from original unaltered capture to finished print, mapping exposure, contrast and toning adjustments. Covers darkroom technique but creative choices apply to digital equally.
Creative Elements. Eddie Ephraums. 21st Century Publishing Limited, 1993. Deconstructs photos, going from original unaltered capture to finished print, mapping exposure, contrast and toning adjustments. Covers darkroom technique but creative choices apply to digital equally.
Book recommendation: Understanding Exposure. Bryan Peterson. Amphoto Books, 2004. Illustrates the effect of the exposure triangle, *and* why you would want to control it for creative purpose. Especially helpful to understand through-the-lens metering i.e. every camera since the Spotmatic in 1964.
December 1, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Book recommendation: Understanding Exposure. Bryan Peterson. Amphoto Books, 2004. Illustrates the effect of the exposure triangle, *and* why you would want to control it for creative purpose. Especially helpful to understand through-the-lens metering i.e. every camera since the Spotmatic in 1964.
I’ll start off sharing some book recommendations. Karsh Portraits. University of Toronto Press, 1976. This giant of portraiture also happened to be Canadian. He lit like Rembrandt and printed to maintain the effect. Mostly shot 8x10 with Kodak Commercial Ektar lenses - rendering exquisite tonality.
November 30, 2024 at 1:54 PM
I’ll start off sharing some book recommendations. Karsh Portraits. University of Toronto Press, 1976. This giant of portraiture also happened to be Canadian. He lit like Rembrandt and printed to maintain the effect. Mostly shot 8x10 with Kodak Commercial Ektar lenses - rendering exquisite tonality.