By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , How-To
Well, the honeymoon didn’t end. I’m still feeling like the schoolboy who discovers the evil joke he had planned for a buddy turned out better than he ever expected. Shooting the X1D in 24:65 mode is proving even more fun than early tests suggested. Being a newbie at this, I only just […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
And there I was torturing my ming, trying to find my new camera of choice … So, I don’t actually own one. Not … really. But all the video watching and article reading devoted to finding my next camera taught me two things: (1) I really must learn to read manuals, because (2) the […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion , Travel Photography
Meeting good friends, visiting Paris Photo, touring “alternative Paris”. And trying to decide whether I can live with a phone as my only camera. If the progression in the above mission statement evokes more than a whiff of a “sublime to ridiculous” in your mind, you’re right in exercising a healthy dose of skepticism […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
This stress is one of many options to explain (male) photographer’s constant GAS 😉 Another quick post, to examine a thought that arose after listening to a HiFi dealer interview. My dealer. He explains that one of his customers, an orchestra conductor, owns an old and quite poor audio system. That man reconstructs the […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
Is it only when you sell it that you realise that it was worth keeping? I’m only half joking about this. So here’s a less disheartening alternative 🙂 As often when new adventures loom, I’m neck deep in a selling spree. Mostly HiFi gear, but also 3 Hasselblad lenses (XCD21, XCD45, XCD120 Macro, if […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
If numerology has any intuitive value, surely #1234 has to be about growth, right? 😉 3-4 years ago, I purchased my X1D, thinking it would be the camera to end all camera-hunting. Yeah, right. How deluded can you be? 😆 😆 😆 There’s good news about this subject. And there’s bad news. The […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
One of the mottos of (some?) crossfit trainers is “I don’t care about your results, I care about your effort”. Does photography follow the same logic? Imagine a gym where a guy turns up in a linen suit with a robot lifting the weights for him. Thanks to Elon the conqueror, this could be […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
So you don’t have to 😉 – Maybe you should, though! In a recent roundup of news, I linked to a Peter McKinnon video detailing 10 reasons to try out the social platform Vero. It seems to provide an alternative to Instagram that isn’t chasing TikTok’s debilitating features, offers more possibilities for sharing and […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
A beloved lost photograph and the opportunity to shoot it again, along with my attempts to emulate film in digital. Above is one of my favourite personal photographs. Ironic, really, as landscape photography usually does very little for me. That photo – the source file – was lost to one of my many backup […]
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By pascaljappy | Newsletter
What an eventful week. A model and photographer Queen sadly passes away, leaving a huge, and fascinating photographic legacy. Two major camera launches. A viable alternative to Instagram. More cool Lightroom tools. Lessons from Joel Meyerowitz. And a film camera I – really, really – don’t want to buy. Plus more 🙂 Revisiting colour […]
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