By pascaljappy | How-To
Internal conflict between photographic aspirations and reality can eat you up, man. Know thyself, right? A few posts ago, I mentioned growing dissatisfaction with my “grabber” approach to photography. For those not familiar with this website, the grabber is one of the 4 photographer personalities proposed by co-author Philippe which describes people like me […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , How-To
Some final thought on this intriguing 24:65 aspect ratio, using a longer lens. After my first posts about the X-Pan crop (24:65) available on the Hasselblad X1D, both using photos made made using the XCD30 lens, two readers asked me what this might look like with a longer lens. Given this overwhelming demand, how […]
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By Ian Varkevisser | How-To
Back in 1994 the current government liberated the country and have been in power ever since. Of course what they never told the voters was that they would somewhat liberate them of their security and power. As can be attested to by Paul P in his recent blog there have sprung up a number of […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , How-To
Well, the honeymoon didn’t end. I’m still feeling like the schoolboy who discovers the evil joke he had planned for a buddy turned out better than he ever expected. Shooting the X1D in 24:65 mode is proving even more fun than early tests suggested. Being a newbie at this, I only just […]
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By Ian Varkevisser | How-To
Apparently Fujicolor 100 Industrial is a negative film only sold in bulk in Japan. Something interesting about Fujicolor 100 Industrial film is that it has a Tungsten emulsion (with a Kelvin temperature of 3200), but it is daylight balanced because the dye colors have been shifted to account for the cooler temperature. It turns out […]
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By Steve Mallett | How-To
Yesterday I had a cataract op to my right eye and here I am, wearing sunglasses, writing about it already. Miraculous really. To backtrack, twelve months or so ago I went for a routine eye test and complained to my optician about my “rubbish glasses”. This has always been my stance since first having to wear […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
The usual sliders in Lightroom don’t give you enough control over colour to define a consistent style or get the most impact out of your files. Here are two alternative techniques. 6 months from now, I’ll probably turn back to this post and see only all that I didn’t understand about colour grading 😉 […]
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By Pascal Ollier | How-To
My last post was about flora; so, in order to treat the animal world on equal terms, I thought it would be appropriate to put a few members of the honorable fauna in display. This is going to be quite a counterclimax for me since, as readers of previous posts know, seldom if ever do […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
How we react to one, to the other, and how to blend the two for even more powerful images. A lot has been written about the respective merits of b&w and colour photography, about the importance of colour science, about intellect vs emotion. To me, all of this is either too scientific (and hard […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To , Opinion
“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 […]
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