By pascaljappy | News
Also, a challenge resurrection. In yesterday’s post, I committed the content-creator cardinal sin of combining two ideas into one piece of content. If a client sees this, I’m done 😉 On the one side, I was explaining – at length (yup, here is a firm believer in longform) – my process for formalizing my […]
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It’s that time of life again. My camera needs a long rest and I need to find a replacement. Multiple brands have been at the center of my obsessional attention in recent weeks, which has allowed me to acquire much information about things to come in all areas of the industry. Here are the main […]
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By pascaljappy | News
HAPPY NEW YEAR 🥳 🥳 🥳 It’s fair to say that 2022 wasn’t the easiest of years for a lot people. And it’s probably safe to venture that 2023 will continue along the same trends of growing inequality, uncertainty, and tension. The debilitating illness of greed, the tribal stupidity of frontiers and a cacophony […]
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It is now midsummer, in the Northern Hemisphere. At no time in the rest of the year is the light so hard. For nice colour photographs, you often need to be up early or very late. So, how about a month of monochrome? This is the gist of the open participation challenge Pixii is proposing. […]
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By pascaljappy | News , Review
With this latest release, Pixii asks what makes a great monochrome camera. Here’s their answer. As promised in my last article about the Pixii camera, I am keeping you updated with news from the Team at Pixii. Since I’m doing some work for Pixii, this post focuses mainly on information, explanations, and sample images. Where […]
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Cine lens on Leica M3, new film stock from Santa, creative photo competition winners, multiple videos about truth, and how to convey it in photographs, the ISS in front of the moon, Hasseblad ketchup, a 200mp cellphone in the making, La Gacilly, clarity vs texture, DIY digital camera, DIY film camera, the definitive recipe for […]
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Composing a photo book, making surreal images, lens oddities, a fave camera that’s also super cheap, a terrible camera that’s also super expensive, visual overtones based on musical chords, a boomer dissing film and a youngster dissing him back, the way to great prints, how to grow as a photographer, the shocking (???) news that […]
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And why I can no longer review their cameras … So here’s a project close to my heart. This is not the first post about the Pixii camera on this blog and it won’t be the last. The young company has decided that modernity can mean different things to different people. And, while most […]
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The best Leica camera yet, flow advice from one of the greats, a Saint Laurent collab with Magnum, hundreds of megapixels for cheap, cameras that look like C3P0 and Darth Maul, Intimacy lessons, the (last?) cheap medium format camera, cures for blurry corners, thrilling news from Instagram (apparently), the untimely demise of the metaverse, making […]
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A 200Mp smartphone, a lost (and found?) Hasselblad X1D, creative fireflies, a photographer in the top 100 most influential people of the year, the best printers of the year, a new film camera, tilt-shift effects without a dedicated lens, copyright infringements, Sony going green, photography you can … write, cropping vs teleconverters, magnificent smartphone photographs, […]
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