By Paul Perton | Opinion , Review , Uncategorized
You’re a photographer, right? And you already know that packing for a trip is the easy bit. It’s the camera, the lenses and the bag to put it all in where the wheels usually come off – low mass or it’s the hassle with the check-in desk? My much loved Sony NEX-7 is nearly […]
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By Paul Perton | News
It’s just past seven on a dark, wet and chilly morning and I’ve dragged my less than svelte being up what seemed like several thousand steps to the entrance of Sacre Coeur, where I am due to meet co-DS-blogger Pascal. I find him on the steps of this huge church, revelling in the semi-constant rain […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion
Many pundits flesh out their reviews with (usually) lengthy and often caustic gripes about interfaces – the way the camera communicates with you and how easy it is to set, or change a specific function. Read any Web review. There’s always a section on the menus and how hard (usually) or easy (rarely) it is […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion
I’ve taken a few photographs during the first few days of our travels. Some are posted here. In the meantime, here’s a week’s worth of rants. First, the salmon In recent years, we have journeyed to the Scottish Highlands to fish for salmon with a group of friends from back in the days when we […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion
Holiday time looms. We’ll also be attending two weddings while we’re there, so a couple of weeks before leaving for Europe, it’s time to start my usual agonising game about what camera kit to pack. The Nikon option is usually a D800 and 14-24, 24-70 and 80-200 zooms, with either a spare body, or perhaps […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion
I’m curious about where Dear Susan’s readers strut their stuff and how they feel about the response postings generate. Flickr? photo.net? Where? I’ve tried most of the leaders and a few of the followers and at best, my opinion is a resigned sigh. I want someone to spot the things I miss and tell me […]
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By philberphoto | Travel Photography
Jökulsarlon glacier is not only a tremendous location for photo tours because of its ice-on-the-beach, where every photographer can find many opportunities to shoot spectacular pictures. There is another type of photography, and it is almost the exact opposite. And the subject -for a change- is: ice. The ice caves. But, whereas shooting ice on […]
Continue readingBy pascaljappy | Opinion
Close to the top of the traditional photographer’s 10 commandments was “covet not thy camera but keep all your good lenses forever“. On paper, it made perfect sense. Lenses are expensive but lose little value (almost none if you buy them second-hand) compared to cameras. Plus a good lens is tool you gradually learn and […]
Continue readingBy Paul Perton | News , Opinion
At this time of year, it starts to get light here (Rooi Els, around 70km east of Cape Town) before 5 a.m. Most mornings the light show outside the window is blue skies, a few clouds, the warm, rosy tinges of the rising sun and if I am fortunate, the wind isn’t howling*. Up, quickly […]
Continue readingBy philberphoto | Travel Photography
Afte ran orgy of gear posts, and also musings about our whereto, I thought some return to actual photography for the new year might be in order…. There are some places in the world where one wishes one had never been so that one might again experience the bliss and the wonder of discovering them. […]
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