All posts by Jeff Curto

Camera Position 68 : Zoom With Your Feet!

Zoom with your feet! Zoom lenses can interfere with the creative process by letting you get lazy with where you’re positioning your camera. Switching to a “prime” lens of a single focal length can help your composition and your thought process. We also look at “The Poor Man’s Tripod” – a simple device for helping to steady your camera.

Photographs by Jeff Curto (click for larger versions)

Poor Man’s Tripod

Camera Position 67 : The Mind as Camera

Photographers must love the act of photographing; the mechanics of making a picture. But, before that, they have to love the simple act of seeing the world around them. Some pictures are best made without a camera.

Lunch - Still Life with Tomato & Basil Salad - Photograph by Jeff Curto

Lunch – Still Life with Tomato & Basil Salad – Photograph by Jeff Curto

  • “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
    – Dorothea Lange
  • ” I am always mentally photographing everything as practice.”
    -Minor White

Camera Position 66 : Memory and the Photograph

Human memory is a curious thing; sometimes it’s spot-on perfect, other times it’s altered by the passage of time. Photographs are a way that we can extend or enhance our memories and this episode is about a way that my memory was both rewarded and tested in the Italian mountain village of Scanno.