How-To

There was a time when the Navy would train photographers, journalists, lithographers, and draughtsmen. Since 2006, those roles have all been combined, and all the armed forces train their communication teams from a single school, but before that there were generations of servicemen who trained as Photographers' Mates, and these are the textbooks they used.

 Chris Clor’s b&w photographs are stunning, but often begin as humdrum color pictures. Want to convert a color shot? We got Clor to share his secrets so you can try it, too.

What led you to photograph model trains?

Are you hankering for an interesting subject for your next photo adventure? How about something light years away? Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner read Stephen Hawking’s popular treatise on recent advances in theoretical physics, The Universe in a Nutshell, and felt challenged to find universal truths—as Hawking does so well—in realities that are surprisingly close to home.The result is Oefner’s series of images titled “Nebulae,” all of which, like the example above, could easily be taken for images made from the outer reaches of our solar system by the Hubble Space Telescope.