A New Kind of Acrylic: TruLife
Lisa Robinson
Recently, my friend and fellow Photofocus author, Levi Sim, called me up and asked me about how I print my photos for my clients. We discussed the options I have
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History of Photography: The Photo-Secession Movement
Lisa Robinson
Camera Work In 1902 Stieglitz, along with Joseph T. Kelley launched Camera Work, a quarterly publication that supported the ideals of the Photo-Secession movement with the purpose of to “loosely
History of Photography: What is Pictorialism?
Lisa Robinson
In the late 1800’s photography was still basically like a baby giraffe learning how to get up and walk for the first time. Photography didn’t really know what it was,
History of Photography: An introduction to Alfred Stieglitz
Lisa Robinson
Alfred Stieglitz is a name many photographers may recognize as “a big deal” but also a name that they might not be well acquainted with. While Stieglitz sets a lot
History of Photography: Early Stages of Color
Lisa Robinson
Since the beginning, everyone wanted color photographs. Images being black and white only was a chief complaint about photography. Initially, there were a few “successes”; Sir John Herschel was able
History of Photography: Advances in Technology for Negatives
Lisa Robinson
Photography moves from wet plates to dry There’s no denying that the wet plate process was not easy. It took considerable time, planning, effort, money, supplies, and proper logistics to
Luminar 2018: My First Impressions
Lisa Robinson
Macphun (Skylum Software) just dropped their latest version of their editing tool, Luminar 2018 and I decided to check it out. I’m not typically one to edit my work with
History of Photography: The Snapshot
Lisa Robinson
The introduction of the Kodak camera and it’s ensuing popularity started an entirely new school of thought in photography; the snapshot. Previously, “snapshot” was used by hunters as a term
History of Photography: Introduction of Kodak
Lisa Robinson
In the early life of photography, cameras (and all the gear that came with them) were large, heavy, and cumbersome. The wet plate processes, the only one available, required the
History of Photography: Industrialization
Lisa Robinson
In the late 1800’s the world was beginning to take shape into something more of what it looks like today. Industrialization was coming to cities and taking them, literally, to
History of Photography: Mobile Studios
Lisa Robinson
As long as photography remained chained to any sort of wet plate process, photographers found themselves encumbered by massive hardships in order to “take the show on the road”. However,
History of Photography: Julia Margaret Cameron
Lisa Robinson
As a woman, I naturally celebrate a little when I look back in the history of photography and see other women who have made significant contributions to my craft.
History of Photography: Henry Peach Robinson
Lisa Robinson
Last time, we talked about how Rejlander pushed the envelope with the conventional view of photography as art (thus far). There was another, slightly younger, contemporary of Rejlander’s named Henry
History of Photography: Oscar Rejlander
Lisa Robinson
The battle for photography’s place in the fine art world is a road that is long and seemingly never ending at times, even today. In the 1800’s especially, photography struggled
History of Photography: Is Photography Art?
Lisa Robinson
Is photography art? This seemingly simple question is anything but. Since the earliest days of photography, critics and photographers themselves have questioned if it’s purely a mechanical, commercial process or
History of Photography: Brady, Gardner, and The Civil War
Lisa Robinson
It’s odd to think of war as a way for photographers to hone their skills. In the Spring of 1861 when the American Civil War broke out, it presented photographers
History of Photography: Photos as Propaganda
Lisa Robinson
As photography evolved, one theme remained fairly constant in the public’s opinion: seeing is believing. People generally regarded photographic prints as evidence of truth and reality. Steadily becoming more mobile,
History of Photography: Muybridge and Marey
Lisa Robinson
Between the 1850’s and 1880’s two men, Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey both were using photography to further the study of locomotion (or movement) of humans and animals. However, they
History of Photography: Stereoscopic Photography
Lisa Robinson
Stereostopic photography is yet another blip in the history of photography where the photograph was still working to find its’ true identity. It’s based on binocular vision, which is the
Ambrotypes and Tintypes
Lisa Robinson
In my last History of Photography article, I talked about the wet plate, or collodion process and how it was quickly adopted as the status quo in the industry. Like
Rise of The Wet Plate Process
Lisa Robinson
After Talbot introduced the calotype (see my previous article here), the world was in search of something photographic in between the calotype’s unique paper characteristics and the daguerreotype’s pristine, crystal