By pascaljappy | News
A Master of B&W, in-flight landscape photography, pyramids without buses or tourist scams, rainbow moons, better skin tones, 8 films to try out, predicting the future of photography, macro without dedicated lenses, Pulitzer winners, the UK’s hidden multi-billion photo stash, Meta NFTs, irrefutable proof of life on Mars (finally answering David Bowie), an 8-figure Man […]
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By Nancee Rostad | Opinion
When an empty beach, a retreating tide and a brand new iPhone jumpstart a photographic reboot. In early April I was finally able to get to my favorite beach town in southern Oregon. Eager to try out my new iPhone 13 Pro, the first morning found me making the short journey to a stretch […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To , Opinion
“Look who’s talking”, you’ll say. But please let me make my case, it’s worth it 😉 Digital photography has freed us of so many constraints and increased our shooting envelope so much that hundreds of brilliant young photographers have embraced it and created work that simply wouldn’t have been feasible before. And even in the […]
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By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity
Putting words to images can sometimes be a challenge which produces interesting results. Not all captions conform strictly to the haiku format but are in the style of. For those who have not yet published their work in book form it can be a rewarding exercise. Try it ! It makes for a personal gift […]
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By Lad Sessions | Travel Photography
The small city of Lexington, located in the western Valley of Virginia, has two cemeteries. One is Oak Grove, about eleven acres in extent, located prominently on Main Street. The second one, Evergreen, is half the size and down a back road. Oak Grove is far better known, even famous. It was formerly called the […]
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By pascaljappy | News
Mastering composition, conquering the blackest black, capturing ghosts with a DIY camera, launching your career with a grant, understanting the ups and downs of the industry, unsharpening film, unresing digital, drooling at medium format rumours, destroying sensor dust, nailing colour, cringing at 8K, freeing yourself of social media, and more 🙂 Before we start, […]
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By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity
It was a warm sunny autumn morning – not a cloud in the sky – late in the season but the Cape doctor (that’s our local southeaster ) was howling and sea sand was blasting across the shore. It was time to take the grumpy mutt – the spaniel – for a walk on the […]
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By pascaljappy | News
The Decisive Moment brilliantly explained, a flourish of monochrome, easy backup, adapting lenses to rangefinders, finding models, meaning in street photography, iconic photo fraud(?), the rise of interesting NFTs (?), film overtaking digital, how to (really) become a great photographer, great set photography, a macro fantasy, the biggest camera maker in the world – not […]
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By Pascal Ravach | Travel Photography
(The title came to me from an Asian movie I like a lot, « Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring again »… not for « blockbusters fans », since it is so slow… but wonderful in its meditative state). Type “Thailand temples” in a search engine, and you’ll get zillions of photos, each one more […]
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By pascaljappy | News
Shoot photos from space, know all about bokeh, grab cine lenses for your photography, help me unriddle the Hassy X2D, autofocus your large format camera, to calibrate or not to calibrate, avoid bad habits … and much more 🙂 This week saw me back in the UK, to visit family, museums and various exotic […]
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