Book Review - Portraits: Developing Style in Creative Photography by Terry Hope

Interesting B+W Picture Book
This is an interesting picture book for B+W photographers, particularly those interested in alternative development techniques and materials. Each picture has a paragraph or two from the photographer with, by my count, 19 photographers represented across roughly 51 photographs. Accompanying tiny print from the book's author provides technique tips and pointers. The stunning photographs run the gamut between grainy and non-grainy and different forms of toning. The book doesn't include any images created from digital capture. It's interesting and sometimes inspiring but you need to be specifically looking for examples based on different B+W papers and chemicals for development in order to get much out of it as far as technical know-how is concerned.

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Digital Railroad's Marketplace

Digital Railroad has announced the beta release of their new stock photography portal called the Digital Railroad Marketplace which aggregates images in searchable form across all of their members. One of which is Mira, an artist cooperative that represents my work. Mira's photographers make up a substantial percentage of the images in their "featured galleries". All of us at Mira are extremely excited about this! Some of my images are highlighted in their featured galleries as well.

You can view the Marketplace at: http://marketplace.digitalrailroad.net

You can view all of my images online on the Marketplace by either clicking here or, if this link is broken in the future, by searching for "Terry Smith Mira.com".