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Camera Position 55 : Does Size Matter?

August 30, 2007 Jeff Curto 14 Comments

Montepulciano, Toscana, 1998 – Photograph by Jeff Curto

Yes, it’s the age old question… does size matter? Does the size of the prints we make change how we view the images? Have you ever made a large print of your work? Here’s an image that I recently had The Print Lab print to a very large size for me.

In the podcast, I also talk about a new exhibition I have at the University of LaVerne in LaVerne, CA, and about a new series of History of Photography Podcasts, and about a new episode of the Focus Ring podcast

Camera Position 54 : Photograph like a Child

July 12, 2007 Jeff Curto 18 Comments

Summer’s lazy days put me in the mind of childhood and a recent encounter with some ideas by Pablo Picasso and some photographs by French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) made me think about how important a childlike sense of wonder is to photographers.

Picasso said:

“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso – Two Women on the Beach

Lartigue started taking photos when he was 6, his subject matter being primarily his own life and the people and activities in it. So, as a child he photographed his friends and family at play – running and jumping, racing wheeled soap boxes, building kites, etc.

Photographs by Jacques Henri Lartigue

Jacques Henri Lartigue at Masters of Photography

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Camera Position 53 : Realizing the Image

July 7, 2007 Jeff Curto

An image isn’t finished until it starts to feel like what you saw. Here is a brief look at the way I approached the post-production (what we used to call “darkroom work”) of this recent image from Gubbio, a marvelously medieval town in northern Umbria, Italy. The differences are subtle, but the idea is to more accurately capture the feeling and mood of the time of exposure.

For a great overview of how to create outstanding prints of your own images (even in the digital age!) check out Ansel Adams’ The Print.

Gubbio, Umbria, 2007 – Photograph by Jeff Curto
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Camera Position 52 : Tossing Your Preconceptions

July 4, 2007 Jeff Curto 2 Comments

Preconceived notions about what you’re going to photograph can keep you from finding good images that you may have missed. This episode of Camera Position examines how I nearly fell into that trap in Gubbio, a beautiful town in Italy’s Umbria province.

Images of La Festa Dei Ceri, Gubbio, Umbria by Jeff Curto

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Camera Position 51 : Travel Gear

June 27, 2007 Jeff Curto 8 Comments

Traveling with a camera involves planning. A lot of folks have asked me about traveling with the large format camera, and in this episode of Camera Postiion, I detail the gear that I take on the road.