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One of the happy perils of posting your work online is the very real possibility of criticism. I suppose posting it anywhere exposes you, but the internet gives people both a microphone and anony...

https://davidduchemin.com/2024/04/a-word-about-art-making/

Every year, off the coast of Vancouver Island, the place I call home, the herring spawn by the millions. The usually dark green water turns a magnificent chalky blue-green as the herring do the ...

https://davidduchemin.com/2024/03/postcards-from-vancouver-island/

My work in Kenya didn’t go as planned. Story of my life, right? But I’m not referring to the fact that my first two days in Kenya were spent in bed in a tent in the bush, with an IV fluid an...

https://davidduchemin.com/2024/02/postcards-from-kenya/

This is another long one, but if you’ve ever struggled to understand Exposure Value Compensation (or never used it), this might help. Put the coffee on and settle in for a bit. Skipping past t...

https://davidduchemin.com/2023/12/compensating-for-something/

My first “real” digital camera was a Canon EOS Digital Rebel. All black, with a vertical battery grip and an impressive 6.3 megapixel sensor, it felt like a tiny miracle. But take that ISO ...

https://davidduchemin.com/2023/11/crank-it-up-or-how-i-stopped-fearing-the-noise-monster/

“Life,” said Helen Keller, “is either a daring adventure or it is nothing.” The same can be said about art and the effort to make it. Adventure is defined as ” a risky undertaking of un...

https://davidduchemin.com/2023/11/the-adventure-of-art/

Some of your photographs aren’t very “good”; they’re way more important than that.   You’ve felt it—I know you have. You’ve experienced the rush of making a photograph that turns o...

https://davidduchemin.com/2023/10/more-important-than-good/

The First Story A guy walks into a music store, credit card in hand. “What brings you in?” asks the clerk. “How can I help you?” “I’d like to buy a microphone,” he says. “My grand...

https://davidduchemin.com/2023/10/two-stories/

I loaded my gear into my truck last week and headed 12 hours north to the mouth of the Chilko River, my first trip since the amputation. I drove the same route a year ago, through towering mounta...

https://davidduchemin.com/2023/10/10000-frames-to-make-one-whats-wrong-with-me/

In my last post (August 06), I discussed a few ways to improve the mood in our photographs, namely by finding stronger mood in the first place, usually by looking for more interesting light or mo...

https://davidduchemin.com/2023/08/refine-your-mood-in-the-darkroom/