By Pascal Ollier | How-To
I had always wanted to “have it all” in one shot. Simultaneously, pano and stitching are too complicated, time consuming for me. When going digital seriously after leaving both my film years and a first dabble with pocket cameras, I screwed a Sigma 12-24 onto a Nikon D 200 first and 300 afterwards. To me, […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , How-To
A full bag of medium format camera and lenses will pull your carrying shoulder down, culminating in sweet agony by the end of the day. But that’s just the Earth’s gravity and your gear’s mass conspiring to maim your body. What we’re interested in, in this multi-author post series, is gear’s gravitic tug on your […]
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By philberphoto | How-To , Opinion
So there I am, in photo nirvana, with a one-prime-lens sytem, right ? Errrr…. ahem….well….. not! What can be wrong? Minimalism, deep intimacy with the gear, low weight, low cost (relatively speaking), etc…. all pointing in the right direction…. Well, it is not that anything is wrong. It is this nagging question: how can I […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
If you’re vaguely familiar with karate, you’ll know that it is taught through a set of very distinct exercises. Kihon are basic movements, Kumite is a sort of sparring, and there are many more. Central among those are kata and bunkai. Kata are forms, sets of movements you repeat over and over again to memorise […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , How-To
CLAIRbyKahn photo gallery director Anna-Patricia Kahn has kindly agreed to discuss with us the differences between the professional artist photographer’s life and the talented amateur’s approach. Between her gallery in Zurich, a mixed media exhibition in the South of France, a huge retrospective in preparation in New York and regular trips to Dublin where the […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
This took an awful long time to get published, right? It seems that either the topic wasn’t as interesting as previous ones or summer … heat … slowed everyone down. Still, better publish before actual summer heat runs out 😉 As usual, I’m afraid I might have forgotten someone, particularly over the 7 weeks since […]
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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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