Written as honest as possible, time to time
A look back a year
It is interesting that I am posting the same title frequently. I may continue this as long as I can. This year to me was the “year of ‘losses,’” I may say. I lost my beloved dog Dobby. The photographer giant Sebastião Salgado was lost. An ex-classmate of my college architecture school was lost for…
RAW Processing Chaos
Ever since I began photographing with Leica M Monochrom in 2016, I have been processing RAW files with an open-source RAW processing application available online for anyone. In the user’s manual back then, I remember they used to describe, “Don’t be surprised that your RAW images look flatter and murkier than you see them on…
Digital Contact Sheets plus a pleasant surprise
In April year 2015, I lost my own permanent darkroom. Since then, my “wet” darkroom practice has been dormant, although I keep all the darkroom gadgets safe. Darkroom is, of course, not only for making enlarged prints. Prior to enlarging, you process films and make contact sheets, which is very important for choosing frames to…
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Koyo Tamaki, photographic artist 