By pascaljappy | News
A Master of B&W, in-flight landscape photography, pyramids without buses or tourist scams, rainbow moons, better skin tones, 8 films to try out, predicting the future of photography, macro without dedicated lenses, Pulitzer winners, the UK’s hidden multi-billion photo stash, Meta NFTs, irrefutable proof of life on Mars (finally answering David Bowie), an 8-figure Man […]
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By pascaljappy | News
Mastering composition, conquering the blackest black, capturing ghosts with a DIY camera, launching your career with a grant, understanting the ups and downs of the industry, unsharpening film, unresing digital, drooling at medium format rumours, destroying sensor dust, nailing colour, cringing at 8K, freeing yourself of social media, and more 🙂 Before we start, […]
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By pascaljappy | News
The Decisive Moment brilliantly explained, a flourish of monochrome, easy backup, adapting lenses to rangefinders, finding models, meaning in street photography, iconic photo fraud(?), the rise of interesting NFTs (?), film overtaking digital, how to (really) become a great photographer, great set photography, a macro fantasy, the biggest camera maker in the world – not […]
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By pascaljappy | News
Shoot photos from space, know all about bokeh, grab cine lenses for your photography, help me unriddle the Hassy X2D, autofocus your large format camera, to calibrate or not to calibrate, avoid bad habits … and much more 🙂 This week saw me back in the UK, to visit family, museums and various exotic […]
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By pascaljappy | News
This week’s newsletter is slightly is shorter. You see, my first grandchild was born a few days ago, so my focus and time has been somewhat redirected 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 One of the most notable contributions to the media world of photography this week was made by […]
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By pascaljappy | News
This week’s newsletter is published later than usual. My apologies, I’ve not been feeling so well and am having difficulties focusing. Plus the US Masters are on and Tiger Woods is making a bold comeback, so sitting idly in front of this is more in line with my current IQ and stamina than scouring the […]
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By pascaljappy | News
From neural radiances to zoom pinholes, from curved medium format sensors to synecdoche, from ocoloy to dodgy processing, from Richard Gere to the Italian catholic church, from street photography to astrophoto marathons, from marine biology to Nike, and more … Technology, that most frustrating of enablers has taken its toll on my mood, this […]
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By pascaljappy | News
Although regularly voted one of the world’s best travel photography blogs on the planet, if not in the whole universe, DearSusan has suffered from one major flaw since its inception: centralisation. Up to recently, there were no solutions to correct this, but now we can finally move on! So the first move for us, […]
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By pascaljappy | News
It’s getting out of hand. Film is getting out of hand. Soon, there will be no room left for digital in this newsletter 😉 The above image shows what’s great about photography in its etymological sense. Drawing with light. Two days ago, work took me to Marseilles for a group business meeting and quick […]
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By pascaljappy | News
When you chain-read the news in one sitting, to write a newsletter, trends become starkingly obvious. And if one has raised its hand far more than others this week, it’s the return of film!! New film stock is being released, lenses are being reviewed from a film-shooter perspective, film cameras are more sought after, artists […]
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