By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity , How-To
In the art world different mediums and techniques of paint are used. Most of the mediums are opaque and forgiving. Take oils for instance – should an artist make a mistake, he may wait for the oil to dry and apply another layer/layers of oils over it and correct his mistake, as the medium itself […]
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By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity , How-To
There is a story that Italian artist and Picasso contemporary Gino Severini willingly gave his broken (and therefore useless) camera to Picasso, who was curious about the odd images it produced. Picasso played with his new toy and ultimately realized that it showed him a new way to paint. Thus cubism was born. In the […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Do you ever experience a clash of opposing feelings when photographing at your favourite locations? A tension stemming from the pressure to create rather than simply go with the flow? Picture yourself roaming freely in your ideal location. Alone in a Japanese temple on a misty day. Rock-crawling through a deciduous forest in France. Scaling […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
If you can tolerate the use of the noun Bokeh as a verb, this title does hint at what’s at the back of my mind 😉 Throwing a part of a scene into delicious cappuccino blur can produce visually stunning results. It’s also brought in me about a certain intolerance to those results. As if […]
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By Jean-Claude Louis | How-To
During the initial phase of a project about the situation of Berlin at the dawn of the 21st century, I had in mind to create images that would form a body of work with a unique visual language, one that could communicate the emotions that overwhelmed me during an exploratory first visit – a feeling […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To , Opinion
Philippe and I are reviewing a new camera that stands out from the crowd in many interesting ways, one of them being a perceived colour accuracy that seems to put most current manufacturers to shame. Perceived accuracy is a topic that doesn’t receive nearly enough attention. So let me once again plunge into HiFi analogies […]
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By Frank Field | How-To
In retirement, my avocation is landscape photography, particularly of the unmatched North Coast of California. As I’ve sought to transform myself from a high tech R&D leader to a photographer, I have accumulated about 200 volumes of monographs, collected works, histories, biographies and instructional works. Pascal’s call in DearSusan #995 for an index to influential […]
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By AlanMacKenzie | How-To , Review
I hold to my belief that photography is primarily a documentary activity insofar as, unlike painting, photography records reality or some small slice thereof. This characteristic links all the great photographers from Adams to Cartier-Bresson, from Arbus to Karsh, Weegee to Mapplethorpe and Capa to Edgerton. These people were masters of the craft and elevated […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Agility has its manifesto. Zen programming has its manifesto. There are probably more. Technical disciplines often implicitely require much creativity and their most advanced pracitionners seem to create these brief documents to impart an underlying philosophy that elevates the discipline from mere execution and extract the best from it. Digital photography has become very technical […]
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By Paul Perton | How-To
In an ideal world, we’d all be shooting countless photographs and selling JPGs, or prints as fast as we could make them. Like in Scott Kelby-land, they’d all be 5* images and aside from counting all the revenues, our only concern would likely be ensuring everything is backed-up to further protect our photographic assets. 5* […]
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