By Adrian | Travel Photography
In the second of three articles looking at different aspects of street photography and street portraiture in different cities in South East Asia, I look at the choice of focal length and the effect on the relationship with subjects when taking street portraits in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. If you missed the previous article from Kuala […]
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By Adrian | How-To , Travel Photography
Regular readers of Dear Susan may have seen previous articles I’ve written about Singapore and Penang, and finding inspiration in some of Singapore’s modern architecture. I’ve travelled in South East Asia for over a decade, and particularly enjoy visiting Asian cities for their culture clash of western modernity, Asian street culture, and alien familiarity. The […]
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Hello! I’m Adam and this is my first article on this site. If you’d like to know a little more about me, then you can read this interview that DearSusan conducted with me by clicking here. For 2017 I set myself the challenge of street portraits. I’d been shooting street for a while, but […]
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By pascaljappy | Travel Photography
This new guest post is from frequent comment contributor Adrian who is sharing some interesting insights on how a vision evolves in time. The underlying topics of thinking about projects and specialisation are particularly noteworthy. Thanks Adrian. Quick bio below : I have been a keen amateur photographer for over 15 years. My initial interest […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
The Zeiss Milvus 1.4/85. Probably the most anticipated lens we’d never heard about. It was unveiled to the press and bloggers, including yours truly, in Oberkochen, a few days ago. The whole Milvus range was. And that has many stars, notably a very well transposed 50/2 Macro and a lovely 21/2.8. But this 85/1.4, this […]
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By pascaljappy | News
If You Don’t Want Your Photos Stolen Don’t Post Them on the Internet. It’s permanently at the back of a blogger’s mind : who is making money of *my* work ? To share or not to share, that is the question. While it’s an easy answer for me (thieves and other cheap low-lives will never […]
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Reader become friend Christopher Perez has just moved from the US to Paris and needs you artistic help, right now ! As you can tell from the images below, Christopher is no mean photographer. During lunch, last summer, he showed me a portfolio containing glorious prints of his intimate portraits and let me tell you […]
Continue readingBy philberphoto | News
India is portrait heaven. Not only do people almost always accept having their pictures taken, if asked respectfully, but there are so many interesting portraits to shoot that I could have bid my driver stop every few hundred meters. That would of course not have helped our travel, which already proceeded at Indian speed. Meaning […]
Continue readingBy pascaljappy | News
A common feature in most of my pictures is the absence of human beings. Not that I do it on purpose, but my instinct drives me to more abstract shapes or landscapes in which humans would create an unwanted sense of reality and ruin the mood. Not knowing how to feel about that, I decided […]
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