Photography

Pascal Parent on February 1st, 2012

I have made a lot of Panoramic HDRs lately, I got various complaints about the bending on these. I think I owe an explanation about that. I do my panoramic photographs using a 16mm in portrait, inevitably much like a fisheye lens, the closer to the centre of the panoramic you get the closer you [...]

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Pascal Parent on January 25th, 2012

I am a proud Joburg Photowalker nearly since inception just over 2 years ago. The guys and gals are great and a special mention goes to Mark Straw for organizing some amazing locations and so much more. In the old group many have helped out and helped to organise something some point in times. It’s [...]

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Pascal Parent on January 25th, 2012

High Dynamic Range or HDR is an abused process that bad photographers use to hide the fact that they can’t shoot. I am paraphrasing here but I heard it, I read it and I disagree and here is why! A good, not an over the top, over done HDR, a good HDR requires planning and [...]

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Pascal Parent on January 16th, 2012

As you all know I take part in photo walks, particularly with the Joburg photowalkers. I get a lot of question about Joburg photowalkers, here are a few typical ones and answers: How do you join? Like “Joburg photowalkers” on Facebook, the Flickr group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/1210029@N21 or  go to http://www.meetup.com/joburg-photowalkers/. How much does it cost? Nothing [...]

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Pascal Parent on September 6th, 2011

Going to the Namaqualand I did what every photographer does packed my bag with everything, in the end I could have left it all behind and just took my 16-35mm as I took 90% 0f my photographs with it. I found the the close focusing distance and shortness of the lens was handy, additionally small [...]

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Pascal Parent on August 11th, 2011

I recently acquired two new Lensbaby Optics, the Soft Focus and Sweet 35, both of which I will be reviewing, the first in this post.

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