By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
To me, it all boils down to whether you enjoy using it. This is a real photograph, made with a real camera (not even a Smartphone) by a human being (me) in a real-life location (Leadenhall market in London). Its ethereal quality bears some resemblance to the polished look of images generated by diffusion […]
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By Paul Barclay | Review
Welcome back to my review of the post repair Leica SL2 and a select lens. In this section we will be looking at the Nikon 50mm f1.4 AIS lens mounted on an inexpensive Fotasy “NK-L L” adapter, because in my email conversations with Pascal I mentioned that it renders very nicely in the SL2 and […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
Here is your selection of favourite photographs for July 2023, all 22 entries of them 🙂 What do you think? Al Bionyst Here are two photographs of my twin daughters taken during a trip to the Swedish coast. We had glorious weather and the sunsets were incredible. Both taken with My Pentax 6×7 and 105mm […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To , Opinion
Many heated debates (megapixel races, film vs digital, lens sharpness, lens drawing) boil down to the simple question above. The plan was simple enough. Photograph 5 locations, produce 5 short posts for fun and easy summer reading. But it appears this lightness of being proved unbearable to me. And when grainydays released the video […]
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By pascaljappy | Travel Photography
Following in the footsteps of Chris Stump’s lovely Nova Scotia trip report, here’s my personal version of the “what I did on my holiday” post 🙂 Our (my wife and I) modus operandi for holiday travel may be atypical. We generally pick a location (a cool one, for the summer), a theme (often food, […]
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By Chris Stump | Travel Photography
My wife, son, and I started what was intended to be an annual vacation to the eastern provinces of Canada a few years back…just before covid. My mother’s side of the family hail from here so I’d like to think it feels familiar. Bonus is we really enjoy the area and people. […]
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By Nancee Rostad | How-To
On reflection, I’ve realized that nearly all of my most successful photography has been the result of serendipity. No planning or preparing for a trip to a faraway place in order to capture a particular iconic image. If a trip has been planned, and even if I expect to photograph one or another subject, […]
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By Pascal Ravach | How-To
I studied Sciences in my youth, and kept my curiosity intact since then, so once launched in the so-called “adult life” I became found of Olympus for their extraordinary gear for macro-photography, purchased all their best optics, flashes, bellows… you name it; and even ended up purchasing a microscope, a binocular and an optic fibre […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
Welcome to the gallery of your favourite photos of June 2023. Thank you to all who participated. The photographs are presented below in autor alphabetical order. I am again very happy to see so much variety in style and personality, two things I value far more than most. Let us know what you think of […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
How’s that for a clickbait title? The thing is … I mean it. If you want to become a good photographer, that is. The difference between engineering and photography is hard to overcome. You can learn rules in engineering. It takes time, an understanding of maths and physics, and some serious effort, to become […]
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