Haje Jan Kamps

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Posts from December 2006

5 years ago

Don't ignore Paper Negatives!

So, you fancy yourself a bit of a photographer, do you? Awesome, that makes two of us. Or, judging by the number of people regularly visiting his blog, a few thousand of us. If you’ve ever played around with pinhole photography (and if you haven’t, you totally should), you’ll have stumbled across Paper Negatives – or the idea of using photosensitive paper rather than film [...]

5 years ago

First steps in Portraiture

My entry into Photography was a very gentle and gradual one. As such, I don’t actually remember much of how it all came about, nor do I remember the specific steps I took, nor in what order I learned the lessons, or why. Handy, then, that there are people out there who are just coming to terms with their disease, errr, affliction, errr, passion that is photography. In this case, my dear [...]

5 years ago

Contrast, colours, and curves, oh my!

Curves is one of the most powerful tools a photographer has in his or her arsenal. You can do a lot more with curves than you can do with the Levels tool. In fact, most photographers who embrace curves stop using the Levels tool altogether – although until you fully understand what Levels is, what it does, and how to use it, you’ll never be able to get the full potential out of the [...]

5 years ago

Merry christmas and NY!

Wow, I can’t believe it’s Christmas already. If you celebrate it, have a fabulous celebration, and if you don’t, have peaceful time anyway! As for new year’s – I’m going to Edinburgh again this year, to celebrate Hogmanay. Knowing those nutty Scotts, it could get quite mental, but I’m looking forward to it lots. Updates will probably be somewhat limited [...]

5 years ago

Image aspect ratios

In a recent photo critique, I went off on one about the aspect ratios I prefer, when I look at photos. But have you ever thought about why you would prefer a particular image ratio? Is there a rule about what size photos should be, and if so – who decides the rules? I’m just sharing my own thoughts here, but I’d love to hear your opinions on the matter as well! There are a lot of [...]

5 years ago

Framing and cropping your images

For this issue of the Photocritic Photo Critique, we’re going far afield! Joel Legassie is a Canadian who is currently living in Japan, and is an avid photographer. His photos are sharp, stylish, and striking… So can we offer him any advice?    Joel uses a I use a 6.3 megapixel Canon Kiss Digital (that’s the Digital Rebel / Canon EOS 300D to the rest of us), with the [...]

5 years ago

A new meaning to 'tele-photo'

Mobile telephones start having better and better phones – most of them are currently between two and three megapixels, and the vast bulk of them even have digital zooms on them. But what about optical zoom? Well, not a lot of that, yet… At first, I shunned cell phone cameras, but after I bought a decent-quality Sony Ericsson with a 2mpx camera, I’ve actually used it quite a few [...]

5 years ago

The Lensbaby lens

Why would you put a $100 lens on a $8,000 camera? Well, because even the professional photographers have to go back to their roots, and re-learn the passion of photography. The Lens Baby can help.     I use the Lensbaby with my Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II. Of course, the logical first question is, “Why put a $100 lens on an $8,000 camera?” The only answer is that the Lensbaby [...]

5 years ago

Olan Mills update

A couple of days ago, Photocritic broke the story about Olan Mills going under. It was a weird one, because I don’t generally run corporate news stories like that. However, the story struck a chord with me, because I know what it is like to be struck down without a job as a photographer, and how much trouble it can cause. I know that this type of thing is a nightmare for those concerned: [...]

5 years ago

Getting your camera repaired

Another long-term reader and frequent-commenter had a question for us, and because I’m such a nice guy, I couldn’t let this one go, because I feel his pain: He has ruined his camera, and doesn’t know what to do next…    I’m facing having my camera repaired, and although its not a DSLR, its not a point-and-shoot either. Its a DimageZ2 and I think its good [...]

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