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 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 | 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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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , How-To
In most areas of life and tech, it’s best to stay in the center of a specification range. But maybe we can stray a little in our creative endeavours? On your daily commute, you probably wouldn’t want to drift your car through intense traffic, nor would you tolerate your rush-hour neighbour doing so. Or […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Lying myself out of a medium-format film-camera obsession 😉 Sometimes, sharpness and transparency are too much of a good thing, with modern digital cameras. Sometimes, the soul craves a little snap, crackle and pop from the turntable, a little halation on Ingrid Bergman’s distressed face (“Oh, Dev!”) in a movie, and slightly gentler manners from […]
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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 | 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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By pascaljappy | How-To
Can Henri Cartier-Bresson’s signature be reduced to the decisive moment he made famous? His photographs, his quotes and his modus operandi all scream a resounding NO! 🙂 You say Henri-Cartier Bresson, you hear decisive moment. An ability to click at the right moment, at the height of the emotional potential of a scene. Many […]
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