By pascaljappy | How-To
To the photographer used to forests, rolling landscapes and the occasional street life, it comes as surprise to learn that some focus on the teeny-weeny rather than the huge. But it appears there is such a select group of enthusiasts and that they have developed a real know-how about lighting, depth of focus and other […]
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By Paul Perton | How-To , Travel Photography
Almost anyone – whether they have been there or not – will tell you that the only reason to visit Singapore is to change planes, and/or shop. Well no. At least not in this house. Our first visit was in 2005 and again almost every year since. It is a spectacular city, […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Having picked reader’s mind about their favourite lenses, then given my opinion on what makes a lens great, here comes the most difficult episode of this trilogy for me to write. The basic truth is that no one should really care what the best lens is. HCB would have produced great photographs with a plastic […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
How many lenses to use was the question central to my previous post. One reader, Ken, rightly scolded me in the comments for rehashing an overworked subject. I guess I should have asked for more context and not just for a number of lenses. So let’s see if I can make this one a little […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Now here’s problem without a solution, right ? But the question isn’t rhetorical. I’d like to know what you guys think. If you want to make the best possible travel photographs, how many lenses should you own? What’s the best compromise? One big zoom? One prime? Many primes? A combination? Is it better to sacrifice […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
While I recently proclaimed my love of clouds in photographs, astronomers see things very differently. Clouds are bad for business, not just for ice-cream vans. They mask tiny details and wash away faint light sources. For us photographers, it’s a different story. And clouds can actually add something interesting to photographs of stars … Above […]
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By philberphoto | How-To
Most posts on DearSusan aim to teach the reader something the photographer knows, and the reader not. Like how a piece of gear performs, or how a part of our planet looks. But not this one. This is why it has fewer pictures than usual, as I am not about to show, but to search. […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
This morning, on the school run, my daughter baffled me with the most astonishing news. It was hard for me – a veteran amateur astronomer and student of physics – to accept that a 15 year-old had learned (via Facebook, ugh) what I had failed to unearth in spite of subscriptions to numerous scientific magazines. […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Walking along the cliffs in the beautiful Provence village of Cassis a few weeks ago gave me the opportunity to make a series of exposures of a same subject with the sun gradually lower over the horizon to show and describe the changes in hues you can expect in these conditions. As an unexpected guest, […]
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By philberphoto | How-To
I call flower pictures my perpetual plan B, at least for 8 months in the year, excluding winter, when flowers aren’t exactly available all over the place. It is not for me to be at all times in one of the world’s great landscape spots … And light isn’t always the greatest … And a […]
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