Category Archives: Photographic Technology

new technologies that impact the creative process in photography

Focusing on my dissertation….

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Douglas Barkey

Friends and anyone following my blog on photography, I have been taking a little break since Spring 2014 in order to finish my EdD dissertation. I expect to be back posting in December, 2014. Thanks for your patience and I … Continue reading →

Lisa Elmaleh & Brandon Thibodeaux at Candela Gallery + Books

Posted on March 16, 2014 by Douglas Barkey

Candela Gallery currently features a pair of exhibitions of portraits that explore two different communities. Lisa Elmaleh used a large format tintype camera to make studied portraits of folk musicians in the Appalachian Mountains, while Brandon Thibodeaux photographed individuals in … Continue reading →

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Michael Snow – Disrupting the Suspension of Disbelief, Part I

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Douglas Barkey

Part 1: Simultaneous compression. When we pick up a camera and frame a composition in the viewfinder, we do so with a number of key assumptions about what happens when we press the shutter button and capture an exposure. A … Continue reading →

Posted in Creativity and Photography, Fine Art Photography, Photo Criticism, Photographic Technology, Photography, Uncategorized | Tagged composition, creative process, digital photography, Douglas Barkey, fine art photography, Michael Snow, Philadelphia Museum of Art, photography and culture, photography criticism | 2 Comments

VanGogh – I want to have you on my phone!

Posted on February 23, 2014 by Douglas Barkey

Today I visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art to see the photography exhibit by Michael Snow, which I will review soon. Afterwards I sat down in front of van Gogh’s painting of sunflowers, but the funny thing was that everyone … Continue reading →

Posted in Digital Photography, Photographic Technology | Tagged Douglas Barkey, Philadelphia Museum of Art, sunflowers, VanGogh | 2 Comments

From 40 plates to 6 billion files – the scale of photography in a digital age

Posted on February 9, 2014 by Douglas Barkey

In November, 2011, I wrote a short piece on Managing the Image – Sorting through the Catalog that explored some of the key differences for prolific digital photographers between managing an image archive of digital photographs and silver-based negatives. I was … Continue reading →

Posted in Digital Photography, Photographic Technology, Uncategorized | Tagged digital photography, Douglas Barkey, John Dillwyn Llewelyn, Noel Chanan | Leave a comment

Larry Cook and Annette Isham at The Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington D.C.

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Douglas Barkey

Although “Woman and Landscape” and “From an Eighth to a Key” occupy the same exhibit space at The Hamiltonian Gallery, each artist addresses different themes with distinct approaches and media – these are separate exhibits installed apart in the same … Continue reading →

Posted in Creativity and Photography, Fine Art Photography, Photo Criticism, Photographic Technology, Photography, Uncategorized | Tagged Annette Isham, Douglas Barkey, fine art photography, human ecology, identity, landscape, Larry Cook, montage, photography, photography and culture, photography criticism, Race, The Hamiltonian Gallery, video art, Virginia, Washington DC | Leave a comment

Lets take the digital out of photography

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Douglas Barkey

Ever since the first sensor was mass produced we have been considering and analyzing the differences between the use of film to darken silver grains compared to the use of a CCD to record light. In 2011 I wrote a … Continue reading →

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Nature Fantasies

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Douglas Barkey

Photography of nature is a popular past time for many. Although it isn’t necessarily easy to pull off nature photography well, it is a pretty easily accessible subject, often spectacular, and doesn’t talk back. There are no modeling fees involved, … Continue reading →

Posted in Digital Photography, Fine Art Photography, Landscape Photography, Photo Criticism, Photographic Technology, Photography, Uncategorized | Tagged Chris Jordan, DiFruscia, Douglas Barkey, Elizabeth Carmel, George DeWolfe, HDR, high dynamic range, Jay Patel, landscape photography, nature | 5 Comments

Revolution in a Photograph – Aliaa Magda Elmahdy and Ai Weiwei

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Douglas Barkey

Two photographs published by artists of themselves have generated a great deal of controversy recently. The geographic and cultural distance between the two artists is worlds apart, but their response to repression through a photograph and it’s distribution through the … Continue reading →

Posted in Fine Art Photography, Photo Criticism, Photographic Technology, Uncategorized | Tagged Ai Weiwei, Allaa Magda Elmahdy, culture, digital photography, fine art photography, nudity, photography, photography and culture, photography criticism | 10 Comments

Teaching Photography As If Nothing Has Changed

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Douglas Barkey

We teach photography as if nothing has changed; as if silver had never been swapped out for pixels. If fact, that is how we act, as if the silver grains on film frames were switched with pixels on sensors with … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographic Technology, Uncategorized | Tagged digital photography, education, fine art photography, learning, photography, teaching | 2 Comments