By pascaljappy | How-To , Opinion
A small, long-neglected, print is now my primary bookmark – there is such a thing – and has become my most viewed (by myself) and loved. In 2018, we spent some time in Scotland. The photographs from this page are all from this trip. At the time, I had a few printed, mostly in piezography […]
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By pascaljappy | Review
The Canon G650 proves quality isn’t tightly linked to printer size. As regular victims of my self-pitying rants on digital-printing complexity know, I’ve been looking at ways of doing my own test proofs at home, rather than send 50 euro bills to my favourite lab in Paris for this. My previous printer was a […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
So, a solid 18 months after promising to do so, I’ve finally started printing again. Good news, though not for the reasons initially imagined. The tactile “last mile” is actually so freeing. So, printed, something like the photo above starts with a triple whammy unfair advantage. But there are more interesting reasons for bracing […]
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By Jean-Claude Louis | How-To
During the initial phase of a project about the situation of Berlin at the dawn of the 21st century, I had in mind to create images that would form a body of work with a unique visual language, one that could communicate the emotions that overwhelmed me during an exploratory first visit – a feeling […]
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By pascaljappy | Monday Post , News
Some weeks ago, a new workshop with different rules, purposes and methods from the usual, was announced on this blog. Things have evolved since then, and have become more concrete. Here’s the deal! The layer cake workshop, and a structure for all training on DS Thank goodness far wiser people than me […]
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By pascaljappy | News
With every DearSusan contributor finally running a fully functionnal printer, it’s time to reboot the #Printswap project. Or to kill it off?
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By pascaljappy | Monday Post
Aha moments shape how we live our lives. DearSusan looks back at 3 determining aha photpgraphic moments of 2018.
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By Paul Perton | Monday Post , Uncategorized
Hating Lightroom. Hoping Luminar’s next release is mainstream usable. Still having issues with ON1 RAW’s blowsy attitude. Wanting RAW Power to get yet more traction. Thinking Capture 1 V12 might be the tipping point. It’s Sunday afternoon. I’m printing, or at least trying my best. Mirage’s software […]
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By pascaljappy | News
GAS update : 10 minutes into my noble printing quest, and I’m out 300 bucks. Snafu. And my next update might be in a while. It all started with the best of intentions: testing. Since Canon printers are known for: being tolerant of longish periods of sleep being easy to print from, out of the […]
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By pascaljappy | Opinion
According to Wikipedia, DIY culture, with its grassroots societal overtones, spans a range of activities that includes Kit Cars (science fiction in a country overrun by administration such as France), naked cycling events, guerilla gardening, anarcho-punk and cult of the dead cow. But not home printing. I wonder why. It hardly seems fair, too. After […]
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