By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
Photo school costs $10k to $200k. But here’s all you need to know. Recently, I’ve been spending way too much time watching a film-photography centric channel called Grainydays. I’ve published multiple links to it in the past, but here’s another one, because it is simply too good to be ignored 😉 The fact that […]
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By Leonard Norwitz | How-To
Following distinguished service for all of one year during WWII, not least as the base for Lt Colonel James Dolittle’s desperate raid on Tokyo four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor that gave the U.S. a needed moral boost, the aircraft carrier USS Hornet was sunk during the Guadalcanal campaign. It remained on […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Well, it’s the final DS challenge of the year. I’ve enjoyed each one thoroughly, in spite of repeatedly forgetting contributions along the way. By and large, your photographs have been stunning and have brought a wide smile to my face. Thank you. The topic for this final challenge was composition in an elongated […]
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By Paul Perton | Interview
Paul Bruins – I call him the Man With Legs Like A Flamingo, as he is all of 6′ 5″ tall – is a Cape Town based photographer. I met Paul at a (Facebook) Cape of Storms photo meeting a couple of years ago and we’ve kept in occasional touch, culminating in my attending one […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
This is a first reaction to our #555. Force for Positive Change call for reader engagement. Is it a guest post by Oliver, describing his trials and tribulations in creating wide-angle shots and panoramas. It is important for 2 reasons : (1) Stitching is a greatly underrated technique that can give us medium format […]
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By Leonard Norwitz | Opinion
My first two weeks with the Sony a7Rii have been a mix of expected and unexpected frustration, balanced with expected and unexpected images and ease of workflow. Unlike many reporters, I had never previously used any Sony camera, nor do I own a single “legacy” lens. I tend to sell off systems I no longer […]
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By pascaljappy | Travel Photography
Continuing the crusade to prove that there is more to travel photography than orbiting famous landmarks, here’s the “there’s more to France than the Eiffel Tower” installment. For this “On location” post, I’d like to describe a lovely coastal walk in the South of France. Starting off at the Cap Bear, on the Eastern extremity […]
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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 pascaljappy | Interview
Markus Renner is an award-winning photographer from Austria whose images appeal to me a great deal because of their composition and out of time quality. In this interview, we discuss his format choices and decision-making process. All images are copyright Markus Renner and all link to the Purity Gallery on Markus’s website. I urge you […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
For this final instalment on creating photo panoramas, I kindly ask the more scientific-minded reader look away for a minute … Ahem. Part 1 is all about creating a single frame panorama. Part 2 is all about stitching multiple frames into a panorama. Now, here are two techniques that many will not consider to be […]
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