By Steve Mallett | Art & Creativity , How-To
It’s 4:40 a.m. Light from the waning moon turns the bedroom a flickering ivory as scudding clouds open and close their shutter. My mind is a rat on a wheel thinking about gear. What to take and what to leave at home. In three days I am off to Australia to visit son and […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , How-To
Climbing a rock several hundred meters high with a heavy pack on his back, a middle aged musician sets up his view camera, waits for the right light and creates one of the most iconic photographs of his era. Not all of us have such a flamboyant image making process as Ansel Adams’, but each […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , How-To
In some ways, few ways, Star Wars 9 is the best movie I have seen in the series. In some ways, many ways, it’s the worst. And the baffling aspect is that all the negatives come down to poor storytelling. This, under the direction of Disney, the absolute, undisputed masters of the art. Or so […]
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By philberphoto | Art & Creativity , How-To
In this seminal post, Pascal asks us, what are our plans for photography in 2020? I can’t call mine a New Year resolution, ’cause it is not about resolution. A resolution is about something, the contours of which are a known factor, but here I am talking about exploring and discovering. Discoveries are not always […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , How-To
Ah, the wonderful time for New Year’s resolutions is upon us again. Such a shame that those are really just wishful thinking and fail 99% of the time, I really wanted to be rich, handsome and famous this year 😉 Still, ouch, making a formal wish about life changes at a highly symbolic date may […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , Opinion
Hey, what did you expect? I’m French … But bear with me for a second, as there is a real link I’m trying to highlight in this quick post 😉 That link came to my mind during a wine tasting dinner with friends last week-end. Among those friends, two painters, a photographer, an […]
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By philberphoto | Art & Creativity , How-To
What is in shooting a series? Leveraging an idea, a point of view, a style, a technique, a subject, in order to turn one into many? Why is it that, after having always felt that series were boring, unimaginative, formulaic, lacking the delightful charm of its musical equivalent, the variations genre, I find myself […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , Opinion
There’s no way around it. My sensor is just too small. Super Full Frame, 44×33, small Medium Format, whatever you care to call it provides great image quality, particularly in the obsessive hands of the Hasselblad imaging team, but doesn’t go far enough in the aesthetic direction I crave. First world problem, I know. But […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
Well, it’s that time again! A time I dread because of my relative lack of organisation, but provides so much fun as well. When someone else writes a post on DS, I don’t like to look at it before it’s complete. To me, discovering it finished is like a child finding a well wrapped present […]
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By philberphoto | Art & Creativity , How-To
In his seminal post, Pascal asks, in essence, where is “home” for us in the realm of photo gear. For me, fun is home, and home is fun. That is the single most important parameter for me. Is this piece of gear fun to shoot? It wasn’t always like that. I went through a phase […]
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