Café Ludwig

Wishing you all the best for the Holiday season and the Coming Year! This card has been in the works for well over a year. Last December I...

In another post I showed how to lighten shadow detail in photos with strong lighting contrasts ( Coping with harsh sunlight ). The price one...

Since time immemorial photographers have been admonished to avoid the noonday sun. Yet morning and evening sunlight, though nicer in directi...

It has been many years since my last roll of Kodachrome. Like most of the rest of the world, I “went digital” a long time ago. So the time f...

On a bright, sunny day the sun can heat up dark objects in no time at all. My camera is black, carried on a neck strap, it becomes uncomfort...

It is nigh on impossible to buy a camera that does not have a zoom lens. Inexpensive cameras that do not sport the expensive optics still ha...

We all have some photos that should have been discarded in the camera but somehow seem to have some merit – maybe form, or color, or pattern...