By Dallas Thomas | Travel Photography
Universities are places of learning, I also think they are excellent to walk around with a camera. The architecture can vary so much from 1850’s sandstone to totally modern structures at Sydney University they do anyway. For sometime, I have wanted to shoot the inside of the Charles Perkins Centre a relatively new building. To […]
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By Pascal Ollier | How-To
I had always wanted to “have it all” in one shot. Simultaneously, pano and stitching are too complicated, time consuming for me. When going digital seriously after leaving both my film years and a first dabble with pocket cameras, I screwed a Sigma 12-24 onto a Nikon D 200 first and 300 afterwards. To me, […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , How-To
A full bag of medium format camera and lenses will pull your carrying shoulder down, culminating in sweet agony by the end of the day. But that’s just the Earth’s gravity and your gear’s mass conspiring to maim your body. What we’re interested in, in this multi-author post series, is gear’s gravitic tug on your […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , Opinion
In my recent incursions into the “art world”, a distinct resistance against landscape photography was present in many discussions. Someone went as far as saying “I just can’t stomach it”. Someone I respect, and not being snobbish or pompous. Someone genuinely not interested and, in fact, repulsed. Why? Now, let’s be honest, I’ve […]
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By philberphoto | How-To , Opinion
So there I am, in photo nirvana, with a one-prime-lens sytem, right ? Errrr…. ahem….well….. not! What can be wrong? Minimalism, deep intimacy with the gear, low weight, low cost (relatively speaking), etc…. all pointing in the right direction…. Well, it is not that anything is wrong. It is this nagging question: how can I […]
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By pascaljappy | Travel Photography
We were first drawn to Ely a few years ago after my wife, then the rest of my family, fell in love with Ken Follet’s historical novel Pillars of the Earth. Apparently (I’ve not read the books, French schooling having made me lethally allergic to anything historical) approaching Ely cathedral through the narrow streets of […]
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By Adrian | Travel Photography
In spite of a new aircraft, a gracious cabin crew and a tailwind, I arrived in Thailand in the early morning with almost no sleep. As I sat at the gate in domestic departures of Bangkok airport in a kind of jetlagged haze, I looked at the light of the morning sun as it shone […]
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By Adam Bonn | Travel Photography
It seems that holidays and exploring new destinations are this season’s must have here at DS… Adrian recently wrote up his holiday experiences with Sony’s 18-135 zoom (which you can read here), Paul’s been stalking London like some modern day Jack the Clicker, Pascal’s been to the less unkempt areas of old London […]
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By pascaljappy | Monday Post
Inconvenient secret: we reached peak-sensor long ago, with the BSI generation, and don’t/won’t see significant IQ improvement until a profound innovation shakes the industry again (curved sensor, organic sensor, all those wonders reportedly maturing in R&D labs). But the state of the art wasn’t always so flatlined. And, back in the days of rapid – […]
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There is a lot of snobbery and prejudice in photography, and internet amplification syndrome ensures that strongly held beliefs are perpetuated, even when they may not be easy to substantiate with empirical evidence. In fact, it’s better if views cannot be substantiated, as then there can be no limit to the endless conversations about lens […]
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