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#1113. Week Links of Photograpy : ethical cameras (?), Amazon video suite, drones, superblack backgrounds …

By pascaljappy | Newsletter

In this week’s issue, we explore paints and fabrics for super black backgrounds, ethical consumers diss the photo industry, drones get better every day, instant cameras play cool, Amazon picks and shovels its way into content creation, Olympus and Sigma make our hearts beat faster, I wish one video product existed for photography, and admire […]

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#925. Is travel photography ethical?

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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#713. Does serious photography have to be obnoxious ?

By pascaljappy | Opinion

So, dog years are nothing. It turns out 7 days in Scotland is worth 100 photographic years in most other places of the world. If you want to live long and prosper as a tog, may I suggest a trip up North for a bewildering variety of themes and locations ? Great (as in really […]

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#698. Monday Post (19 Feb 2018) – Come to the dark side, we have pixels.

By pascaljappy | Monday Post

Photo podcaster Matt Payne, recently published an interesting article on PDNPulse entitled : A Treatise on Landscape Photography’s Dark Side. It covers the digital-age old topic of digital photography editing and its impact on photography as art. Nothing new here but some compelling points are made.     My position on this topic has always […]

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#330. Week-end roundup: Yeats country, droning by numbers, timelapses, an innovative rangefinder and outdated photo ethics

By pascaljappy | News

Hey, it’s that time of whenever again. Time to put your feet up and read nice articles related to photography. Here’s our (insert irregular frequency) pick of the beautiful, the interesting, the ballsy and innovative …   Yeats Country: 17 photos of Sligo and Leitrim that are pure poetry. The title is true. 17 photographs […]

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#293. Rich = B*tch? Photo Ethics at Westonbirt Arboretum

By pascaljappy | Opinion

Does an expensive camera grant your special rights on a subject? Is a pro more entitled to hog a scene than amateurs ? Should you feel more justified in spending minutes on a selfie at a famous spot while a queue has formed behind you, simply because you have traveled halfway across the globe to […]

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