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Tag Archives: Blognosticator
Saved by the wire (and the fiber-optic cable)
You would never think that a wire could slow Internet speed. Well, perhaps you would think of that, but I hadn’t thunk about it much. I was once warned by my friend Eric that the wrong kind of wire could … Continue reading
An EOS R follow-up:
two months later
I bought the Canon EOS R camera in May after considerable research and a one-week rental test of the device. I am the photographer of the Festival Mozaic, a classical music festival in San Luis Obispo. Each year I shoot … Continue reading
Posted in Art, New technology, Panoramic Photography, Photography, Technology
Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Canon camera, Canon EOS R, EOS R, Festival Mozaic, Grace Park
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300,000 readers!
Greetings, good souls, In late August of this year The Blognosticator reached and exceeded 300,000 readers. I was not tracking it closely at the time, being caught-up in beginning of the school year activities, but it happened, and now that … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Technology
Tagged 300000 readers, Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, The Blognosticator
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The case for using DNG as your primary file type
I have files created by a Kodak-branded, Canon digital camera from this century that can no longer be read. This is my second case of file obsolescence; the first being Kodak Photo CD files that cannot be read by any … Continue reading
I’m sick @ tired of symbols being used in prose & running text
In addition to hearing professional news announcers use singular verbs with plural nouns (There’s thousands of reasons to do this…), which makes me very grumpy, I often see symbols like @ and & used in running text. This is offensive … Continue reading
I have a preposition for you!
Prepositions are parts of speech that declare where, and when, and they are important to proper language. Typographers have a responsibility to place prepositions where they belong, and not to hang them at the end of lines. I often see … Continue reading
Posted in Typography
Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, conjunctions, excellent typography, grammar, prepositional phrases, prepositions
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A pretty good argument for using ProPhoto RGB
as your working color space
Photographers discovered 20 years ago that sRGB is a really bad color space for professional photography. So we all changed to Adobe RGB 1998. The reasons for doing so are important: Adobe RGB has a larger overall gamut, and conversion … Continue reading
Making indentations more attractive
As I mentioned in my last article, I believe that one should either indent, or space-after paragraphs in running text. Not both. And, when using a common indentation to create visual cues for the reader, I believe that you should … Continue reading
Coloration has nothing to do with color in typography
This is my third essay on Typographic Discipline. You can read the previous edition here. The word “color” or “coloration” is a term used to describe the texture of typography – its visual impact as a block of copy. It … Continue reading
Introducing Typographic Discipline
After taking several months off from blogging, I am back with a new special column called Typographic Discipline. In the coming months I will be writing and illustrating essays that describe how to create excellent typography. I feel that this … Continue reading