Category Archives for "How-To"

May 17

#1201. 5 reasons to try film photography

“Look who’s talking”, you’ll say. But please let me make my case, it’s worth it 😉 Digital photography has freed us of so many constraints and increased our shooting envelope so much that hundreds of brilliant young photographers have embraced it and created work that simply wouldn’t have been feasible before. And even in the […]

Apr 03

#1188. Whisk Away

By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity , How-To

You might be forgiven for thinking this is going to be a blog about cooking but it does contain a list of ingredients and instructions. Surgeon General’s Warning : Contains a high dose of technical ingredients and artistic post processing. For the technophobes feel free to skip the blurb and jump to the pretty pictures […]

Mar 29

#1184. Distance in Photography

By Lad Sessions | How-To

Pascal’s recent thoughts on 3D (#1181 on 3D and pop) are a tough act to follow! As announced, here is a second instalment with a slight change of subject—or at least of approach. In this post I’ll write in my own allegedly “academic” way, seeking to separate out and analyze a few factors, and hope […]

Mar 21

#1181. 5 ways to add 3D and pop to your images

By pascaljappy | How-To

This is part one of a 2 post short series on identifying the factors that enhance or decrease the sense of depth in your images, and putting them to work in practice in your own photography. The photograph above combines a number of the factors leading to the illusion of depth in a flat […]

Mar 08

#1177. Campervans, the unspoken heroes of travel photography ?

By pascaljappy | How-To

Italy offers a wide range of sleeping accommodation, from charming locandas, to classy hotels and luxurious palazzos. So why would anyone in their right mind choose a white tin box instead? I’ll try to answer this from multiple points of view. Independence Maybe I’m just an old fart. But eating at a restaurant once […]

Feb 11

#1170. Photographing roots

By Lad Sessions | How-To

Roots. The word has so many fundamental connotations: ground, foundation, basis, cause, origin, source. Roots are plants’ way of being grounded in space, at a place, but all life is rooted in time, through its ancestors. So roots run deep, and they touch us deeply. Every living thing has roots, its temporal roots. All […]

Jan 05

#1162. Basics: Does understanding your subject make your photographs better?

By pascaljappy | How-To

The hallmark of a great photograph is its ability to maintain the viewer’s attention and interest long after the initial wow effect, even after multiple viewings. Does understanding the subject matter help create photographs that achieve this ? Welcome to the first episode of Basics. As previously mentioned, the series is destined to create […]

Nov 23

#1153. Bark, as a photographic subject (part 2)

By Pete Guaron | How-To

In part 1, Lad Sessions gave you a very good technical description – he’s researched the subject in depth, and anything I can add is likely to be shallow. So I’ve made this more anecdotal, instead. What do we understand about “bark”? First thing I ever understood was that it “doggish” for “hi there pleased […]

Nov 15

#1152. Avoiding the Deja Vu Trap in Hotspot Photography

By Werner Mäder | How-To

Photographing hotspots is becoming increasingly difficult for me. Snow-covered mountains in the golden morning light, landscapes with a full moon, endless expanses in Iceland, gondolas in Venice, temples in Thailand, Saddhus in India or fog over Tuscany – no matter how dreamlike they may be – I can hardly hold on to anymore. At the […]

Nov 10

#1151. Bark, as a photographic subject (part 1)

By Lad Sessions | How-To

Bark is so common that we scarcely take the time to appreciate its wonders. It is of course essential to trees and vines—and very useful to humans in many ways—but it also intrigues at least two photographers, at different ends of the earth, who have contributed text and images. We have each spent much time […]

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