By Nancee Rostad | Art & Creativity
To set the scene: mid-October; hotel room; somewhere in Montana; 3:35 AM; lying in bed awake; can’t get back to sleep….what to do, what to do? As my mind wandered, my eyes took in the dark room. It really wasn’t totally dark, since I always leave the room darkening shades open in hotels. Arrayed […]
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By Nancee Rostad | How-To
On reflection, I’ve realized that nearly all of my most successful photography has been the result of serendipity. No planning or preparing for a trip to a faraway place in order to capture a particular iconic image. If a trip has been planned, and even if I expect to photograph one or another subject, […]
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By Nancee Rostad | Opinion
When an empty beach, a retreating tide and a brand new iPhone jumpstart a photographic reboot. In early April I was finally able to get to my favorite beach town in southern Oregon. Eager to try out my new iPhone 13 Pro, the first morning found me making the short journey to a stretch […]
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By Paul Perton | Monday Post
An f0.65 lens. WTF? If you’re a regular DS reader, you’ll know we’ve discussed the new generation of über lenses exhaustively in recent times. The trend continues and I was hardly surprised to see a report in the photography media, suggesting that Nikon has calculated its new Z mirrorless camera body could […]
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By Steve Mallett | Opinion
Pascal’s post #755, “In defence of smartphone photography, again” and more recently Adrian’s post #786 Am I going Crazy? (Using an inexpensive smartphone), speak of “smartphone fun” and I thought I’d add my two penn’orth. As some of you will know, I belong to a U3A camera group, (University of the Third Age) comprising members of […]
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Sometimes Dear Susan articles are the result of private debate between it’s contributors; sometimes it is something that triggers inspiration and the desire for one of us to talk about something. Pascal has recently been telling us and Dear Susan’s readers how much he likes using his Korean fancy from the house of Samsung, much […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion
Fuji’s long awaited X-Pro2 finally emerged just a few days ago, while Sony are imminently expected to make a slew of new announcements, including a new mirrorless camera(s). So, what’s not to like? Not much really. I’ve certainly got my eye on an X-Pro2 and I’m sure there are tens of thousands of […]
Continue readingBy pascaljappy | News
I’m not at ease with copyright laws and the photo world, as you will read below, is getting more stupid by the minute. So my photos here have nothing to do with the articles linked to below. They simply express my renewed joy at Audrey’s return (Audrey being the Distagon 1.4/35 ZM wunderlens). Let’s kick […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion
When Apple announced it was pulling the developmental plug on our photographic workflow software earlier this year, few of us Aperture users were surprised. It had been several years since Apple had released a significant upgrade, contenting themselves with new RAW converters, point releases, bug fixes and a doughty silence that gave few of us […]
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