By pascaljappy | Opinion , Uncategorized
Are we more, or less, present in the moment because of our photography? If my wife is to be trusted (she is a doctor specialized in congnitive disorders, so I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt 😉 ), my memory isn’t … top tier, to put it elegantly. I do forget a lot, […]
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By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity
A loose group of us local oddball snappers get together every now and then to go on a collective outing. As part of a whatsapp group that had become dormant I was lamenting with my good friend Zelma the demise of the group. If you remember Zelma you will know they don’t come much more […]
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By Nancee Rostad | Art & Creativity , Travel Photography
At the end of a winter trip to Japan, I found myself looking at cherry trees in full peak bloom. Mind you, this was on February 22, 2023 – February! Which is at least several weeks before the blooms open in other parts of Japan. Luckily, I was in Kawazu, in Shizuoka Prefecture, which […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
Some photographers prefer film, like foodies prefer elaborate cooking and fancy dining experiences. Wading through some of my photographs in DS archives, I found a few that have a (vaguely) film-like look and reignited my interest in this topic. None are really quite there, but they each tend to illustrate a specific aspect of […]
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By pascaljappy | Travel Photography
An innocent photo walk in a lovely town in the South of France turns into a treasure hunt for exotic windows and garage doors 🙂 For those unfamiliar with Montpellier (France, not Vermont) it is an elegant city located close to the Mediterranean coast and home to a vast number of elegant stone buildings […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Introducing a new type of post. Here is a photograph, with my explanations about it. Please tell me what you think. What you like, don’t like, would change … The selected photograph doesn’t have to be a particularly great one. It only needs to be intentional, so comments can establish whether the original intention shows […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To , Opinion
A small, long-neglected, print is now my primary bookmark – there is such a thing – and has become my most viewed (by myself) and loved. In 2018, we spent some time in Scotland. The photographs from this page are all from this trip. At the time, I had a few printed, mostly in piezography […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
The Canon G650 proves quality isn’t tightly linked to printer size. As regular victims of my self-pitying rants on digital-printing complexity know, I’ve been looking at ways of doing my own test proofs at home, rather than send 50 euro bills to my favourite lab in Paris for this. My previous printer was a […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
Two very different views about photographic gear 🙂 In post #518, over 6 years ago, I proposed that camera manufacturers wisen up to the fact that most of us walk around with supercomputers donning superb screens, in our pockects. And lamented that, instead of fulfilling its promise of simplifying life, digital had made photography […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Much of what we do in photography to create a visual style comes down to contrast management. Yet we rarely give it the prominence it deserves in our thought process. Contrast needs to be defined between two areas. The contrast between two pixels refers to their difference in luminance or in colour. The term […]
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