A recent article written by Kate Bevan reminds us the purpose of photography by pointing out that apps like Instagram is debasing photography. Yes, this may be true. When everybody is mimicking, what else you can say about creativity? Like the latest movie The Batman Dark Knight Rises, the world is gloomier than ever (Shock to know 12 innocent movie-goers were shot...
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Finally my second book with Blurb is out. Henri Cartier Bresson once said, “Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” I cannot remember how many photographs I have taken. But you have to create a few surprises to your daily routine. So I decided to make another book: it contains black and white photographs only. The details of my books can be seen on...
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How many cameras and lens do you currently own? One, two or three? How much you think is enough? This is a simple question but the answer is not simple. Perhaps we had better ask how long we are planning to use our photo gears, or how long ago since we bought our last camera? As the life cycle of a camera is getting shorter, we no longer expect a camera to remain...
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In a recent online article on Luminous Landscape, Mark Schacter argues who a photographic cheat is. His question, presented in a form of dialogue, argues that whether using post-processing software to enhance photos is a cheat because the photographer manipulates photos with editing software. It is obvious that nowadays editing software has given us in digital...
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In the latest July issue of Leica LFI magazine, Hoffmann discusses how to create good composition by organising the motifs in the image. One way we often use is “the image within the image”, creating a perspective frame so that two spaces are connected into one. The way we frame a wall picture is a classical example of showing how we set our focus within...
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