The Five
There's a new camera on my desk. A Sony a7R V. The Five, you read that right, not the Six that's been passed around the trade press for months like an unusually attractive newborn. A deliberate...
View ArticleWhen Feminism Forgets Its Own Language
I'm watching a documentary about the male gaze in media. I should be interested — as someone who works with visual language daily and considers myself a feminist, this topic should grab me. Instead,...
View ArticleGone, Just Like That
The computer doesn't see the drive. Different port, different cable, different computer, same nothing. I've praised Crucial's drives here on the blog, and now one of them, of all things, was suddenly...
View ArticleThe Motifs of the 2027 Calendar
You already know the calendar. Tradition demands it, so I'm writing a few lines about each page again. What's behind it, how it came about, what I had in mind.
View ArticleAdobe's New Soft-Porn Effect
For a few years now I've had a mild diffusion filter sitting on my lenses. Nothing as dramatic as Vaseline on the front element, just a nuance, enough that the images lose their digital hardness....
View ArticleSexy Is Not a Four-Letter Word
Last week, I found myself facing that familiar dilemma once again. A new model, talented and beautiful, but with a strange tension whenever the word "sexy" came up. "It sounds so… objectifying," she...
View Article19 Years and Still Not Done
67 images in the pre-selection. Sounds manageable. Pick the best 13, send them to print, done. Anyone who thinks that has never made a calendar. Or at least not one they actually care about.
View ArticleVicky from France
By now, it's no secret. There are various AI tools that can consistently (or at least somewhat consistently) generate characters. While that sounds technical, it really is. But the results are astounding.
View ArticleWhen the Neck Becomes a Spoilsport
Glamorous location, perfect light, great model — and a neck that feels like after a night on concrete pillows. The reality behind the pictures is sometimes one big cramp. Literally.
View ArticleWhen I Trust the Vectorscope
Ever since the Vectorscope showed up in Photoshop, I've been turning it this way and that, asking myself an uncomfortable question: when do I actually need this thing? Hand on heart, my eye tells me...
View ArticleThe EU and Me, One Package, Nine Notaries
I'm sitting over last year's shipping list and realizing I've officially become a security risk to the European packaging market. Twenty-three orders, spread across nine countries. Six to Belgium, five...
View ArticleThe Outside Eye
You fall in love with your own pictures. That's normal, maybe even necessary. After all, you know the creative process, you know exactly why a photo turned out the way it did. There was this harsh...
View ArticleMy New LUTs Are Finished
Color is at the heart of everything I do in photography. Black and white was never my thing, other photographers do it better. I love color, all of it. I studied it so intensively in school that I...
View ArticleMe
It began with a single word. "Me." Then the next one, and another, until my inbox looked like an entire class of schoolkids had thrown up their hands without waiting for the question. I'd put out a...
View ArticleContent Creator
Last week, someone introduced me at an event as a "content creator." I had to pause for a moment to consider whether I should be offended.
View ArticleMy Success Journal
Years ago, on a long drive through Austria, the radio was playing an interview with a mindset coach. I was unusually receptive to what she had to say. It genuinely grabbed me and won me over on the...
View ArticleFake Castings
A remarkable message landed in my inbox the other day. A portal called Projectcasting.com informed me that my "Campaign Listing" was still live and awaiting my approval of the applicants. They'd...
View ArticleCutting It Close
Five parcels under my arm, all the exact same size, and the woman at the supermarket checkout still reaches for her folding ruler. Each one gets measured separately, like the fifth might be hiding some...
View ArticleThree Days in Fuerteventura
It's just after two in the morning, the thermometer reads eighty-four degrees, and I'm lying awake because I don't have air conditioning. Tropical nights sound like cocktails and a costume party on a...
View ArticleTwenty Years
I'm sitting on the sofa, trying not to think about the next shoot. It's an important project, so naturally my mind keeps circling back to it. To distract myself, I start doing the maths. I turned 50...
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