M.H. Rubin

32: Exploring Time, with Danny

21 November 2018  |  26 mins 19 secs

Danny Rubin is not only the writer of the movie "Groundhog Day" but as my brother, he was subjected to many of the same creative influences as visual artists like my sister and me. And yet all of us think a lot about time.

31: Photo Collage, with Gabrielle

18 November 2018  |  17 mins 14 secs

Sometimes the magic of photography is in how images are juxtaposed with other images -- either on a wall, in a book, or sometimes assembled by the artist, like Uelsmann (in a darkroom), or in Photoshop, or just cut up.

30: Learning from Looking

15 November 2018  |  18 mins 53 secs

Mastering your camera is fundamental, but the way to become good at photography is largely about looking at lots of photographs. By great photographers. A range of them. So how do you look at old work and what's the take away?

29: Filters and Post Production (Great Photos are Made, Not Shot)

12 November 2018  |  16 mins 54 secs

Ansel Adams famously said that photographs were made, not taken. And while he invented the Zone System and "pre-visualization" his secret was to make images in post production. To paraphrase Adams' musical metaphor, the taken picture is the written song; the printing is the performance.

28: Constraints and Photographic "Games"

10 November 2018  |  15 mins 4 secs

art, crafts, creativity, photography

There's nothing worse than a blank canvas. And being told you can take pictures of anything is actually a bit paralyzing. So here's some ways to break the jam and play creatively.

27: The Annual Thanksgiving Show

8 November 2018  |  14 mins 20 secs

holiday, photos, thanksgiving

The holidays are picture-taking days! Tips and thoughts on shooting your festivities.

26: Creating Personal Projects

6 November 2018  |  15 mins 50 secs

If you shoot enough, at some point someone will ask "what do you take pictures of?" and it's a surprisingly difficult question.

25: How NOT to be an Amateurish Amateur

4 November 2018  |  13 mins 53 secs

What are the things we do as beginners that are good to work through...

24: Establishing Trust

2 November 2018  |  16 mins

Perhaps the most important attribute of the photographer isn't technical, it's the ability to engender trust in people....

23: Are Your Pictures Any Good?

31 October 2018  |  12 mins 56 secs

So you've taken a lot of great photos. How do you determine which are "really" good?

22: Walking Around with a Camera

29 October 2018  |  17 mins 31 secs

It's good practice to take your phone/camera out, and go for a walk. Pay attention to what catches your attention...

21: On Reading Susan Sontag

27 October 2018  |  17 mins 4 secs

art, artists, photography

Two books almost universally recommended for photographers...

20: Truth!

26 October 2018  |  20 mins 12 secs

What is photographic truth? What happens when the photographer manipulates the image? How much manipulation is okay? If it's all a fiction, why do these things matter?

19: The Space Between

25 October 2018  |  17 mins 8 secs

A photo is often capturing more than the surface of a subject, but rather, the relationship between photographer and subject.

18: Simplification

24 October 2018  |  15 mins 20 secs

There's so much happening in the frames of our pictures, they can become more elegant with some simplification—what can be done to simplify an images?

17: The Death of Photography?

22 October 2018  |  18 mins 6 secs

Teenagers taking pictures: is it "photography" or something else. Wim Wenders proclaimed the "end of photography." Really?