By pascaljappy | Opinion
A beloved lost photograph and the opportunity to shoot it again, along with my attempts to emulate film in digital. Above is one of my favourite personal photographs. Ironic, really, as landscape photography usually does very little for me. That photo – the source file – was lost to one of my many backup […]
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By pascaljappy | News
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 John Wilson | Travel Photography
Yes … it’s been a while! The COVID clouds have parted and it’s been two years since the “6 pack” hit the road into the hinterlands cameras in hand. After a month of planning and discussion we took to the road on May 27 for 12 days exploring south eastern BC. All told with side […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
How we react to one, to the other, and how to blend the two for even more powerful images. A lot has been written about the respective merits of b&w and colour photography, about the importance of colour science, about intellect vs emotion. To me, all of this is either too scientific (and hard […]
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By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
Art exhibitions aside, few attractions seem to disappoint as much as museums, especially those we grew up with and re-visit only to find them renovated and dumbed-down to appeal to an average age of under ten and IQ close to room temperature. London’s Science and Natural History Museums are no longer exciting and involving. Their […]
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By Paul Perton | Monday Post
341 – Three for one. That’s what you’re getting today. Post number 777 and to mark the occasion, three items, one from each of us. I suppose it was inevitable that the mention of threesomes would worm its way into our pre-publication discussions, leaving me (at least) puzzled as to just what kind […]
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By Chris Stump | Opinion
<Pascal>This is a quick guest post by Chris Stump, the second of many more, I hope, given the strength and brilliance of his associated photographs. Chris, thanks a lot. Take it away!</Pascal> The photo of artist Alberto Giacometti above was apparently taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson. I say ‘apparently’ not because I doubt the […]
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By Paul Perton | Interview , Uncategorized
Kirk Tuck. American. Working photograher. Videographer. Lighting trainer. Fiction writer. Photo blogger, GAS sufferer extraordinaire and gear wonk. Kirk hopes being interviewed on DearSusan will make him famous. It most likely won’t, but his views make interesting reading, as do his almost daily blog post(s). Kirk, you’re becoming something of a […]
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By Paul Perton | Monday Post , Uncategorized
Predictably, it’s raining. And damned chilly, with a cold easterly wind making being outside something only mad dogs and a few Englishmen would do. Clearly, I’m one of the latter and braved the mist and drizzle; our 8th floor hotel aerie looks out over the Westfield centre in Stratford. Yesterday, I’d shot […]
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By Adrian | Travel Photography
In the second of three articles looking at different aspects of street photography and street portraiture in different cities in South East Asia, I look at the choice of focal length and the effect on the relationship with subjects when taking street portraits in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. If you missed the previous article from Kuala […]
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