Haje Jan Kamps

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2 weeks ago

My first adventure in timelapse photography

I love experimenting with photography, but I've never really had much of a chance to play with timelapses until I started working with the Triggertrap. So, in the process of testing it all, I did a load of timelapses, and I figured that (since we've now finally launched our iPhone version) it was time to show off some of my experiments as well. This one is a work in progress, as I haven't quite [...]

3 weeks ago

Choosing your first dSLR camera

Whenever a new excuse for buying stuff (Christmas? Birthdays?) rolls around, the retailers are rubbing their money-grabbing little paws in glee, in anticipation of making a killing over the holiday seasons. Be that as it may, fact remains that there is a lot of choice out there, and whether you are buying your first camera, or whether you are out shopping for a friend of family member, you might [...]

3 weeks ago

This self-portrait was taken by a stranger on the Internet

Today's post is brought to you by the how-bloody-meta-is-this department... So, I've been playing with different concepts of automating the taking of photos, by using the Triggertrap universal camera trigger I invented. As part of the upcoming Triggertrap website (it's launching on Monday!), I was working on the updated Newsletter sign-ups, and I had an idea: Wouldn't it be cool if someone signing [...]

3 weeks ago

The Avengers and Adventures in Terrible Headaches

Avengers is one of those movies that makes you wish your cinema seat had a seat belt - it's a no-holds-barred thrillride cocktail of two parts great casting, one part witty script, a large splash of VFX, blended with copious amounts of visual gags, a squeeze of explosions, and garnished with the odd, completely unneccessary yet utterly delicious shots of rather astonishing-looking eyecandy; Cobie [...]

3 weeks ago

Eased Timelapses: Adding some acceleration to Timelapse videos

So I've been playing with timelapses a fair bit recently, and I've learned a lot of magical and mysterious things... For example, have you ever considered how it's pretty awesome to be able to speed up time by taking a photo every 2 seconds, and then playing it at 30 fps? When doing it like that, a 1 hour timespan only takes up a minute of video - perfect for sunsets, sunrises, etc. Using this [...]

1 month ago

Free Photography School

You're just starting out in photography, but you can't quite seem to get the hang of things? Or perhaps you've been taking photos for a while, and you're itching to get some inspiration to develop? Or maybe you've always been a person who learns best when they get a little bit of a push in the right direction? Well, I've got some good news for you; I'm starting a photography school. Well, a [...]

1 month ago

Carving out an online identity

Have you ever thought about how important an online 'brand' is, even when you're a person, rather than a brand? It's something that sprung to mind recently, when I was looking through my Twitter followers. Some of them have great, very easy-to-recognise icons - and others, not so much. Colin is a great example of someone who is doing it right; He has this icon on a lot of his digital life: [...]

1 month ago

Can you fix the focus on a blurry photo after the fact?

I seem to be on a roll this week, with finding incredibly interesting topics to write about over on Quora. In this case, the question was as simple as it was interesting: "Is it possible to focus an unfocused image with a computer program?". Answer... There are many technical challenges with focusing an image after the fact, and it depends heavily on how out-of-focus the original image is. It is [...]

1 month ago

Should you do a photography degree?

I was browsing Quora the other day, and found an awesome question: What's the benefit of studying photography? At first, I just answered 'Not much'... But then I erased those two words, and let things get a little bit out of hand. Enjoy: Let's take the first things first: Having a degree in photography doesn't make you a photographer. Taking photos makes you a photographer. With that out of the [...]

1 month ago

The power of iPhone HDR

There's no doubt that HDR is a popular form of photography (I did a bit of a how-to, if you're not familiar with it), but mostly, I can't help but thinking that it's a bit of a specialist field. Until, that is, I started using it on my iPhone. Most of the time, I don't need it; but the other day, I wanted to take a photo of a piece of graffiti. If I were photographing this properly, I'd have [...]

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