By Chris Stump | How-To , Review
My wife, son, and I recently enjoyed a family wedding in Ogunquit, Maine. We live on the coast just a couple of hours north, so it was a pleasant little drive for us to join the extended clan for a few days. I’ve photographed weddings as a primary or side business for decades, and even […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
If we could answer that one in a few simple sentences, producing great photographs could probably automated. But that doesn’t mean that worthwhile pointers can’t be examined in a brief post, right? Very few things can irritate me more than someone trying to reduce a complex situation to a single metric. That’s what […]
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By Dallas Thomas | How-To , Travel Photography
I think we all know the feeling of getting back from a shoot or trip and starting the culling process. Over nearly 11 months of travel I had accumulated 14,346 shots. I was fortunate to be able to process and cull as I went. Over this period I selected some 1,870 images to process and […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Pareidolia: “a psychological phenomenon that causes people to see patterns in a random stimulus. This often leads to people assigning human characteristics to objects.” It’s freakish how often our brain assembles pieces of a scene into something different than it really is. Particularly in peripheral vision. We turn around, and the object isn’t […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Welcome to the results of this month’s “Loved Ones” challenge. The idea was to send in photographs of things, objects, ideas, places … we love and fear might one day disappear out of our lives. Or about loss and disappearance themselves. Not only that, but photographs made in such a way that the love would […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
I recently traveled to a very touristy destination, Egypt, for a week-long photographic cruise. Not being used to sharing locations with others (un-destinations rule my photo life), I struggled to deal with the constant presence of other visitors that stopped everywhere for selfies, or to read a sign or to grab a few shots, just […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
They said that it could not be done, He said, “Just let me try.” They said, “Other men have tried and failed,” He answered, “But not I.” They said, “It is impossible,” He said, “There’s no such word.” He closed his mind, he closed his heart… To everything he heard.” Benny Hill. So […]
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By philberphoto | How-To
This is one way to see it: in the book of Genesis, it is written: “Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. This is as good a definition of ChiKi as any. […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
12 talented photographers take on the challenge of creating photographs to represent the visual equivalent of Japanese poetry’s haiku.
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Assembling this post was once again one of those “what did I get myself into?” moments … How do you organise the photographs of others around such a philosophical concept as Wabi Sabi ? Well, this time, I chickened out, I simply am presenting your photographs with very little comment, leaving myself time and a […]
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