Haje Jan Kamps

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Posts from December 2011

4 months ago

Some of my best photos from 2011

2011 has been a pretty crazy year all around. This year, I have: been to four different continents and a dozen different countries taken tens - if not hundreds - of thousands of photos (and 6,000 of them were good enough that I decided to keep them in my Lightroom library). gotten engaged. I've (nearly) brought my photography gadget Triggertrap to market  Seen one of my books go on sale, [...]

4 months ago

Evaluating your photos

As the end of the year rolls around, it becomes natural to take a look at what you've done over the past year... And as a photographer, taking a closer look at the past year of photography can be extremely exciting indeed! Apart from just taking a closer look at your own photos, if you're in a self-improving mood (and you may very well be; the new year's resolutions are just around the corner, [...]

4 months ago

Happy Holidays, everyone!

It's been a pretty intense month in my world the past month, and I think I've been working harder than I ever have before in my life. A large proportion of my time was gobbled up by Triggertrap (a full update about what's been happening on that front over the past month can be found on the Kickstarter site), and whatever I had left has been nibbled at by several exciting book projects I've been [...]

5 months ago

Wet-plate photography

You're probably familiar with taking photos with a digital camera. If you're adventurous (or mature) enough, you've probably had a go at taking photos on film as well. As a true film aficionado it's interesting to dig deeper into the history of photography, and give wet-plate photography a shot, too. If you manage to avoid poisoning yourself or blowing up half your city, it can give awesome [...]

5 months ago

Photographing Lightning with the Triggertrap

The most frequently requested feature on the Triggertrap is a deceptively simple question with a wickedly complicated answer: “Can the Triggertrap be used to photograph Lightning”. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this one, because it’s not as easy to answer as you’d think. The problem is that cameras are not as fast as you would like. No matter how fast [...]

5 months ago

Rights and Respect in photography

Today, I stumbled across an article on Found Photography, titled ‘Your rights as a photographer‘. At first, I was intrigued, thinking that it would have something to do about copyright. Instead, it turned out to be about photographing Amish people, who, according to the article, "The Amish don’t like to be photographed because it might cause them to be tempted by pride". The [...]

5 months ago

The Breathalyser Photo Booth

As I was writing up the user guide to the Triggertrap, I was googling around to find out what kind of sensors you could conceivably connect to the Aux port of the device. I came across a sensor I didn't even realise existed: An Alcohol Gas Sensor. Brilliant. Spectacularly brilliant. Why? Because it gave me an idea for a completely novel way to use the Triggertrap that I hadn't thought up [...]

5 months ago

Should you take photos everywhere?

In a recent post by my Pixiq colleague Carlos Miller, he challenges an art gallery where an art exhibition is taking place. The exhibition is a woman who is living naked in a glass box with some pigs. Without commenting on whether it's a great art piece (I think it's a bit heavy-handed on the symbolism, myself; it sounds like the performing arts project of a high-schooler, with all the obvious [...]

5 months ago

Film developing database

Back in February 2007, when I was working with a lot of darkroom and black and white developing, I had a brain-wave: Why is it so bloody hard to find a complete resource for film developing? And so, like the good little geek I am, the Photocritic Film Developmet Database was born. My black and white film development database is designed to look up times for combinations of black-and-white film and [...]

5 months ago

The best thing about Movember...

I participated in Movember again this year, which turned out to be a tricky one; they don't seem to have heard of Movember here in Argentina, which is awkward, because my deliriously ironic moustache really, really shouldn't be taken too seriously. When I'm wearing top-lip-fluff, I look more like a child molester than most, which clearly explains why I haven't been able to make that many new [...]

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