Author Archives: Fabiano Busdraghi - Page 5 of 8

Ars moriendi, by Joel-Peter Witkin
Ars moriendi, by Joel-Peter Witkin, is a photographs that combines a beautiful naked women with putrefied human heads.

Pinholeswap 2008: pinhole cards exchange
Gallery with the best pinhole photos received during the pinholeswap 2008.

Local sharpening techniques and noise reduction
Use photoshop to increase the sharpen only on detailed areas of a photo and filter digital noise only in smooth portion of the image to achieve optimum results.

The pictorialism and modernism of Edward Steichen and the malediction of Ansel Adams
Description of the exposition at Jeu de Pomme with pictorialist and modernist photo by E. Steichen and definition of the A. Adams maledition: a stereotyped application of rigid printing techniques.

UV light source for contact prints and UV enlarger
Description of a self-made UV printing unit with Sylvania Blacklight-blue UV tubes to print alternative and historical processes.

Mounting pinhole diaphragms on support slides
Tutorial to explain how to mount microscope diaphragms pinholes on support slides to handle them more easily.

Microscope diaphragms as perfects pinholes
Electron microscope diaphragms can be used as the best pinholes: they are perfectly round and the diameter is constant.

The triumph of modern academism and the few brave Photo Quai rebels
A lot of "modern academic photography" at Photoquoi exposition in Paris, but also a few great less known photographers from the non-occidental world.