By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , Opinion
Hey, what did you expect? I’m French … But bear with me for a second, as there is a real link I’m trying to highlight in this quick post š That link came to my mind during a wine tasting dinner with friends last week-end. Among those friends, two painters, a photographer, an […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion , Review
It’s the most peculiar activity, football. Having recently been given the opportunity of an evening inside the shiny stadium that hosts Olympique de Marseille, probably France’s most notorious team, if not the most famous or successful, I thought this was a great opportunity to move mankind forward one big step by proving that the Hasselblad […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , Opinion
There’s no way around it. My sensor is just too small. Super Full Frame, 44×33, small Medium Format, whatever you care to call it provides great image quality, particularly in the obsessive hands of the Hasselblad imaging team, but doesn’t go far enough in the aesthetic direction I crave. First world problem, I know. But […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion
At DearSusan most of the behind the scenes work falls to one person. The DS site layout, galleries, mediation, many of the Challenges and of course, the upkeep in hard earned Euros. It were Pascal – āe done it. The past tense there is purely vernacular, BTW. Iām happy to report that our man is […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
Paris in November … Sounds like a Woody Allen movie title but it’s more about stills than video š France’s two major photographic events happen in November. We’ve just visited both. And it’s given us some food for thought. Over the past few years, I have regularly visited the Salon de la Photo, […]
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By Leonard Norwitz | Opinion
Yes, Apple has made some improvements to its smartphone camera performance, but how significant are these – and to whom? The new iPhone 11 camera specs: Camera 1: 12MP wide, f/1.8 Camera 2: 12MP ultra-wide, f/2.4, 120-degree FOV The iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max Camera 1: 12MP wide, f/1.8 Camera 2: 12MP […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
There are hard questions that take us to dark places and which, most often, we’d rather not ask ourselves š This one of them, particularly in times of Flygskam and Greta Thunberg as nominee for Peace Nobel Prize. Whether we agree with the young Swede superstar or discard the whole movement as an unrealistic bag […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , Opinion
In my recent incursions into the “art world”, a distinct resistance against landscape photography was present in many discussions. Someone went as far as saying “I just can’t stomach it”. Someone I respect, and not being snobbish or pompous. Someone genuinely not interested and, in fact, repulsed. Why? Now, let’s be honest, I’ve […]
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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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There is a lot of snobbery and prejudice in photography, and internet amplification syndrome ensures that strongly held beliefs are perpetuated, even when they may not be easy to substantiate with empirical evidence. In fact, it’s better if views cannot be substantiated, as then there can be no limit to the endless conversations about lens […]
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