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Street Photography: Learning to See What Is Already There
For me, street photography begins with something remarkably simple: life happening in front of my camera. A man waits alone at a bus stop. Two strangers exchange a glance while passing each other. A child runs through a patch of…
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The Latitude of Tri-X
There is something reassuring about Kodak Tri-X 400. It is not a film that demands perfect exposure. On the contrary, part of its character lies in what happens when exposure is less than perfect. For generations of photographers, Tri-X has…
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From Wetzlar to the M11: The Story of the Leica M
There are cameras that belong to a particular period, and there are cameras that seem to exist outside time. The Leica M belongs to the latter category. Put a Leica M3 from 1954 beside a modern digital M11 and the…
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Pushing and pulling film
Anyone who begins shooting film soon encounters a seemingly simple rule: look at the ISO number printed on the box and set the camera or light meter accordingly. Kodak Tri-X 400 is rated at ISO 400, Ilford HP5 Plus at…