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 – ‘e done it. The past tense there is purely vernacular, BTW. I’m 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 🙂 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 😉 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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By Paul Perton | Opinion , Travel Photography
Your response to part 1 surprised me. I really hadn’t anticipated the kind of feedback the article got and it encouraged me to move up my publishing efforts, wanting to meet a deadline sometime late in September, rather than perhaps never, which I was feeling I might easily justify. No. It’s sooner rather than later. […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , Opinion
Last week, my wife, daughter and I went out for an evening walk in a nearby seaside village that hosts night markets during the summer months. Having recently tested the Hassy X1D on fast action shooting, I wondered how it would fare in low light. Badly, is the answer. But what stuck with me most […]
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