What The F T-Shirt wildlife-natureWhat the f? Four aperture blades opening and closing through f 1. 4, f 2. 8, f 5. 6 and f 8 the photographers version of a swear word, and a genuinely useful reminder of which way the f number runs. Smaller number, wider opening, less in focus; bigger number, smaller hole, more depth of field. It is the one piece of camera maths that confuses every beginner, and the joke lands hardest on the people who needed three years to get it straight. I still
I have previsualised many photographs this carefully
trading a little shadow detail for more speed and that hard
because a triangle with two corners is a line
side by side
Sometimes I gaze at a beautiful sunset and think
I romanticise large format roughly twice a year — usually until I’m reminded that it means loading sheet film in a changing bag
made another coffee
A histogram t-shirt for the exposure-obsessed — the pixel-peepers
and ISO trade against one another
The histogram does neither
A black-and-white film t-shirt for Tri-X loyalists and street shooters — anyone whose first thought on seeing good light fall across a stranger is which stock
A funny photographer t-shirt for anyone who still reaches for a real camera over a screen — DSLR holdouts
