Erik Fransman

Hi Paul, I try to follow your suggestions.
Probably, clearer for me if you can show me, if you want. Thank you.

Marty, The Holga is a cheap plastic camera that loads 120 analog films. It has a crappy lens and you have limited settings. 1/100s is the ss. And you can usually choose the aperture between Sun and Cloudy. That’s it.

It produces to today’s standards “bad” images but as you will see, there are many people who are great fans of this type of…[Read more]

Where’s my boat? OnePlus 8, 1×1 crop.

…seeing color issues is a skill that takes time to develop.
That is so true Beth. A long, long time ago, even before I went to Film school, I was an apprentice in one of the largest Dutch film companies. I was fortunate to be able to learn from all departments. One of the departments was the lab, where they developed, color-corrected, and…[Read more]

Marty, Patrick, my wife used to be a photographer working with Hasselblad and Nikon, and large format. When digital came, she had to switch to Canon EOS 5D (Mark I, the first one). She had to work in digital but she never liked digital. So she bought a Holga 120N plastic camera and kept working analog. She also has a crappy phone camera. The…[Read more]

I looked at Amazon and those eclipse glasses look exactly what I had.
I understand your worries with your dad’s experience, but I would not worry about it with these glasses. The only thing they have to do is to act as an enormously strong ND filter. But since they do not have to be color-corrected/neutral they are not expensive to produce. And…[Read more]

Marty, a partial Solar Eclipse looks nothing like a full eclipse because it stays dawn with a partial eclipse.  What happens with a full eclipse, in the last 20 seconds it becomes night. The wind quiets down, the birds, everything. It is truly magical.
It works better when you film it because you can hear what happens.
Be prepared, you will be amazed!

Bicycles, Fresh from the Amsterdam Canals

An Oldie. This image POTW in March 2019.

Coot uses plastic for its nest. Nothing else is available to her.

That is storytelling packed in a stunning visual way! Congratulations.

Here you go:

Most importantly: Know your camera, in and out. That is something that you can learn. If you do not know your camera you will be lost.

A good painter knows his/her brushes, paint, and canvas, a good F1 driver knows his/hers (are there female F1 drivers?) car, engine, tires, and brakes, a good Chef knows his/her ingredients, stove, pans, and so…[Read more]

Street Photography is not just pointing your lens and shoot a person or more persons (not that you need per definition people in a street shot). Below Street shot without people. Just pointing your camera and click might get you a great shot (See the image of Ken, the (Dis)Mounted police cleaning up behind them, (Decisive Moment!)), but it usually…[Read more]

Right time, right place, right angle! Good shot. A tad more headroom would have made it a great shot.

Right time, right place, right angle! Great shot.

Really, really nice Paul!

Hi Paul,

Great images.
You know me, I just do as if this is the ST.

The first image can use a tad more room in front of the B. And the leaves are a tad noisy.
Here a sloppy edit:

And the second image is also great but the flower is so beautiful, that you have two heroes in the image. I suggest taking the leaf at the left bottom out and…[Read more]

Paul,

Don’t get me wrong. I greatly advocate using a title that throws the public a bit off. ( I do it all the time)  So I have no problem with the title.  Especially, after your clear explanation.

However, since this is the Shak Tank, we give criticisms when the execution can be better.

We all have the same problem. Almost any imaginable ima…[Read more]

Hi Tim, you confuse me with the title “Light Painting”. I was expecting something else.

I agree with Rob, what is the added value of a 7-shot composite?

And for me, it does not quite work. It should be perfect when you make a “beauty” shot, or Hero shot as we call it in the trade. IMHO there is too much smudge in the blacks which takes away from…[Read more]