Camera Obscura

Nikon V1 Review

noreply@blogger.com (JJ Semple) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:12:00 +0000

I bought this camera the first day it became available. Probably a mistake, I thought, as I left the store. Spent the next few hours shooting, wondering if the criticism I read on net would reflect...

Photographers searching for greater creativity and finding it within themselves. An outside the box look at the creative process.

Disappointed... 4/3 lens adapted to μ4/3

noreply@blogger.com (JJ Semple) — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 19:14:00 +0000

One of my biggest disappointments with μ4/3 is the lack of a fast zoom lens. Yes, I know prime lens are important, and it seems like Panasonic and Olympus are making headway therein. However, what's...

Photographers searching for greater creativity and finding it within themselves. An outside the box look at the creative process.

Self-tutorial 03: The Right Lens

noreply@blogger.com (JJ Semple) — Mon, 02 May 2011 21:11:00 +0000

Last night, my wife asked me what I thought Osama Bin Laden's death would mean for President Obama. This citation popped into my mind: "Nothing's too good for the man who shot Liberty Valance." If...

Photographers searching for greater creativity and finding it within themselves. An outside the box look at the creative process.

Angle and Frame bis

noreply@blogger.com (JJ Semple) — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:49:00 +0000

Winding Road, Trinity Alps Olympus E-PL1, Olympus 40-150mm, 1/200 sec @f/5, ISO 200 Shortly after my last post, the weather turned bad, a rainy month of April without much promise for May....

Photographers searching for greater creativity and finding it within themselves. An outside the box look at the creative process.

The Angle and The Frame

noreply@blogger.com (JJ Semple) — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:18:00 +0000

What to fill the frame with? That is the question. The answers are various and sundry. But one element is omnipresent — angles. Photographers love angles. Angles of all azimuths and...

Photographers searching for greater creativity and finding it within themselves. An outside the box look at the creative process.

Self-tutorial 02: The Hard Way

noreply@blogger.com (JJ Semple) — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:43:00 +0000

I've been wanting to create a B&W gallery for my photography website, so I've been looking over my photos with an eye to seeing which ones would be better in B&W, trying to spot one before...

Photographers searching for greater creativity and finding it within themselves. An outside the box look at the creative process.

Self-tutorial 01: Photographing interiors

noreply@blogger.com (JJ Semple) — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 06:26:00 +0000

I don't have the knowledge or the experience to offer tutorials; this is purely a record of my trial and error attempt at learning one of the many sub-domains in photography. Hence the...

Photographers searching for greater creativity and finding it within themselves. An outside the box look at the creative process.

On creativity and a camera as a means of expressing it...

noreply@blogger.com (JJ Semple) — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:39:00 +0000

A great many people are on the sidelines when it comes to the ultimate value of Yoga and meditation. Sure, because of the recent positive press, even the mainstream variety, most now agree...

Photographers searching for greater creativity and finding it within themselves. An outside the box look at the creative process.

m43 strategy

noreply@blogger.com (JJ Semple) — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:27:00 +0000

There certainly is a lot of uncertainty as far as what cameras, camcorders, video formats are going to look like over the next five years. And that's normal when there's a revolution. Right now there...

Photographers searching for greater creativity and finding it within themselves. An outside the box look at the creative process.

μ43 — No good for sports?

noreply@blogger.com (JJ Semple) — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 07:00:00 +0000

There's a lot of talk about what μ43 can't do. For instance, it can't work for sports. It's no good in the studio. It can't do the laundry. The sensor's too small, they say, which boils down to a...

Photographers searching for greater creativity and finding it within themselves. An outside the box look at the creative process.

Lumix G1 vs Olympus E-PL1

noreply@blogger.com (JJ Semple) — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:23:00 +0000

This really isn't a competitive shootout, Appliance 01 versus Appliance 02; that's incidental to the story. It's about the slowly unfolding process of arriving at a level of comfort with...

Photographers searching for greater creativity and finding it within themselves. An outside the box look at the creative process.

Copycatting

noreply@blogger.com (JJ Semple) — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:44:00 +0000

I've labored off again, on again at photography for over 50 years, always two steps forward, three steps back, whether for lack of money, time, or initiative, never really accomplishing...

Photographers searching for greater creativity and finding it within themselves. An outside the box look at the creative process.