By pascaljappy | How-To
Reality is complex. Photographs shouldn’t dumb it down. The sea, the sky, seperated by a perfectly straight horizon. Add a single white dome, with possibly a supermodel running down stairs in a striking red dress. That lone distant mountain with a blue river meandering through a uniform coniferous forest in the foreground. What could […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , How-To
Some final thought on this intriguing 24:65 aspect ratio, using a longer lens. After my first posts about the X-Pan crop (24:65) available on the Hasselblad X1D, both using photos made made using the XCD30 lens, two readers asked me what this might look like with a longer lens. Given this overwhelming demand, how […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
And there I was torturing my ming, trying to find my new camera of choice … So, I don’t actually own one. Not … really. But all the video watching and article reading devoted to finding my next camera taught me two things: (1) I really must learn to read manuals, because (2) the […]
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By Paul Perton | Art & Creativity , Travel Photography , Uncategorized
No words. These images hardly need explanation. Technical note; shot with a Fuji X-H1 with either the 16-55 f2.8 Fujinon zoom, or 90mm f2 Fujinon prime. Post processing in Capture 1.
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By pascaljappy | Review
As OS updates sneak into our smartphones, uninvited and undetected, some new features make their appearances and surprise users. AI, it seems, is getting a firmer grip on photographic practises. Among the features that awaited me on my recent trip to the UK was one abysmal “Live” thingy that appears to capture images before […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Not a day goes by without a blog post or video describing tips, rules or techniques to make better photographs. 99.9% miss the mark, and it’s not always their fault. Here’s how to use them better. Disclaimer: The following is purely based on personal experience and isn’t sanctioned by any of the official schools […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
If you can tolerate the use of the noun Bokeh as a verb, this title does hint at what’s at the back of my mind 😉 Throwing a part of a scene into delicious cappuccino blur can produce visually stunning results. It’s also brought in me about a certain intolerance to those results. As if […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , How-To
Well, another tough one, right? This time, you can blame Adrian, I had nothing to do with it. The Bayhem challenge was his (excellent) idea and here’s what came in in reply 🙂 But, first, let’s recap and describe why this is interesting and difficult. The idea was to create photographs in which […]
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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 pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
Well, it’s that time again! A time I dread because of my relative lack of organisation, but provides so much fun as well. When someone else writes a post on DS, I don’t like to look at it before it’s complete. To me, discovering it finished is like a child finding a well wrapped present […]
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