Photography

Designing a Card for Leica 2010 Xmas Photo Competition

November 20, 2010
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Leica has made plenty of exquis­ite cam­eras so far, includ­ing the latest (and highly admired) Leica M9, but I assure you, this Leica à la carte is per­haps the most deli­cious one ever made! The but­tery tex­ture of the Leica bis­cuit melts in your mouth.
Tastes beau­ti­fully when shared with a fam­ily gathered dur­ing the fest­ive sea­son, accom­pan­ied with a hot cup of tea, in a house sur­roun­ded with a snow of a life­time of memor­ies filled with tracks of stor­ies to share and remember. 

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Painting With Light

November 20, 2010
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Paint­ing with light is more demand­ing and takes more time than simply point­ing a cam­era towards your sub­ject, locking-into-focus (prefer­ably with some amaz­ing new auto­fucus­ing tech­no­logy that takes all the hints of cre­at­ive think­ing away from us), and then fir­ing away.
Paint­ing with light twists, twirls and height­ens your under­stand­ing of a good focus point with sev­eral addi­tional cre­at­ive points of its own.

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Rethink E.V.I.L.

May 10, 2010
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Cam­era design should serve its pur­pose and clearly com­mu­nic­ate that pur­pose. It’s evid­ent by ana­lys­ing the mar­ket at the moment that few of today’s cam­era man­u­fac­tur­ers have slightly less than a cloudy idea how to pro­ceed fur­ther, or a clear goal know­ing what to do next. They all can­ni­bal­ise their own products and con­fuse customers. 

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Street Essential: Another Dream Camera Bag

March 24, 2010
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In addi­tion to my pre­vi­ous photo cam­era bag idea named the ‘Street Pho­to­grapher’, I’ve decided to make one more ver­sion of it. How­ever, this time I’ve clearly aimed for the smal­lest of all cam­era sys­tems: EVIL (Elec­tronic View­finder Inter­change­able Lenses) and rangefinder cam­eras only. Hasta la vista DSLRs, and see ya some other time …

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When Competitions Go Wonky: The Case of Kata Dream Bag Challenge

March 17, 2010
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Dream Bag Chal­lege organ­ised by Kata (cam­era bags man­u­fac­turer) falls into the cat­egory of poorly organ­ised design com­pet­i­tions. This com­pet­i­tion cer­tainly has some big flaws that allow for mis­in­ter­pret­a­tion of rules, design sub­mis­sions, vot­ing pro­ced­ure, prize sub­mis­sions, you name it. It was mis­lead­ingly advert­ised and when examined care­fully, it may as well cre­ate sus­pi­cions and doubts about the integ­rity and hon­esty of the Kata brand. I’ll try to cla­rify why is that so.

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Designing A Dream Camera Bag

February 18, 2010
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As a big street pho­to­graphy fan and an owner of a small Leica cam­era and a won­der­ful com­pact DSLR from Pentax, I often found myself in a dilemma — what is the best way to take my gear and go out, to enjoy unob­trus­ive street pho­to­graphy? Recently I have redis­covered the old truth: if you want to do some­thing right, you have to do it your­self. So I have decided to design my own cam­era bag and also entered Kata Dream Bag competition.

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