By pascaljappy | Opinion
Productivity, moments and craft beer … As I am completely incapable of original thought, my writing process, lately, has shifted towards taking other people’s brilliant ideas and morphing them into photographic ideology. Ideology rules the world today, why couldn’t I have a slice of it? Here’s idea number one: Western (read capitalistic) countries have […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
If your nonsense-clickbait detection sensors are blinking red, they’re only partially correct! While gear has no mind of its own, it does shape us as photographers, and calls to us in subtle ways. Get out today, and grab a lens, camera, or lens+camera combo you’ve not used in a long time. Will your photos […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
Conveying more meaning in mine has been on my mind for some time, and a frequent source of frustration. Maybe this was chasing the wrong goal all along, though. Trying to analyze the “value” of a photograph is probably futile. But that’s how my mind works, and I need to formalize ideas in order […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion , Review
I doubt I’d have justified the cash, if fate hadn’t played a major role; the pay out for a burglary at my home near Cape Town in September last year has been sitting in my bank for a while, giving me time to decide what to do. The thieves took inter alia every single item […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
Choosing good enough isn’t settling down. It’s wisening up. I used to own a high-end printer, and never used it. Now, the replacement is a cheap A4 “large tank” 6-ink affair that produces visible dots and prints that would probably fade in a week, if left in the sun. And I love it. An […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion , Uncategorized
Are we more, or less, present in the moment because of our photography? If my wife is to be trusted (she is a doctor specialized in congnitive disorders, so I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt 😉 ), my memory isn’t … top tier, to put it elegantly. I do forget a lot, […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
Some photographers prefer film, like foodies prefer elaborate cooking and fancy dining experiences. Wading through some of my photographs in DS archives, I found a few that have a (vaguely) film-like look and reignited my interest in this topic. None are really quite there, but they each tend to illustrate a specific aspect of […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To , Opinion
A small, long-neglected, print is now my primary bookmark – there is such a thing – and has become my most viewed (by myself) and loved. In 2018, we spent some time in Scotland. The photographs from this page are all from this trip. At the time, I had a few printed, mostly in piezography […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
Two very different views about photographic gear 🙂 In post #518, over 6 years ago, I proposed that camera manufacturers wisen up to the fact that most of us walk around with supercomputers donning superb screens, in our pockects. And lamented that, instead of fulfilling its promise of simplifying life, digital had made photography […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
It depends on your functional highlights, I guess. On the one hand, it would be arrogant – not to mention, wrong – to claim that Sony’s (or Tower Jazz or …) reseach and production lines have been stagnant for the past decade. On the other, it’s equally hard to deny that many artists – […]
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