Comments on: Photography brain-dump

By: jim

jim — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:43:05 +0000

I like best the natural looking photos, the one of the camera, the after one of Kita and the before of Yari.

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Chasing Fuji | ANy FIdelity will do. — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 04:34:43 +0000

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By: Maz

Maz — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:30:10 +0000

Chris, your blog really is special – it’s not just the amazing photography, or the places you are able to get to, but your prose is rather good too. I’ve been blogging for only 2 months so it’s early days for me but this is something for me to look at and try to take points from. I certainly don’t want to be carrying an SLR but having just purchased a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10 which has enough user input to help me learn, and is also lightweight (218g, with a 90g case and a spare battery for long trips, 40g). As I progress in my photography skills, perhaps I’ll start taking an SLR on some trips…

By: Hamilton Shields

Hamilton Shields — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:13:01 +0000

I’ve always admired your photos and thought I’d ask a question on which I am totally a novice. I’m wanting to buy a camera to take on my hikes, but am not sure where to start. I’d like something light and for the time being, won’t be doing much editing besides cropping/ resizing.

Is there anything between point-click and DSLR? Or do you think there is a point-click that will get the job done for a non-technician?

Appreciate any advice, and thanks for the inspiration.

By: Martin Rye

Martin Rye — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:32:29 +0000

Helpful stuff Chris. Recently I started shooting back in JPG. I tried RAW. Cant be bothered with all the processing. Like the curve stuff. I will play with that. Thanks.

By: David Wasserman

David Wasserman — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:56:02 +0000

Chris, great website/blog

being quite a debutant in the photo area, all your tips are more than welcome.

I find interesting the fact that what you find worthwhile in auto-leveling is the contrary for me. That pic with the summit through the clouds looks way better in its “natural light” than the overall-lost-in-white one. We do all have different tastes I guess.

However that editing on the Yari glacier is awesome. That strip of light is wonderful.

And it’s true, only a couple of pictures turn out interesting in a film. I happen to shoot with b&w film so it’s quite a disappointment everytime I get them from the lab, but it makes the interesting ones worth it.

Stimulated by your blog, I just went to look for old pictures I had of the Honsawa onsen in the Yatugatake 30 years ago…Can’t believe I actually found them, and god was I young on them!

Thank you again and keep up with the excellent work!

By: Red Yeti

Red Yeti — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:11:21 +0000

Great page Chris. I’ve been saving your postings up for way too long now (for some reason I’ve hardly read any blogs, let alone written, since coming back from that long walk last summer).

The section on Framing & Composition really chimed with me.

It’s something that I was better at doing when I used film (like so many people I’m sure!) but I then continued to do so when my first digital camera could only hold 55 or so images on a card (there were bigger cards – I was just too cheap to buy them!

Each shot “counted” more so I’d spend more time really looking at them before I pressed the shutter.

I’ve been consciously aware that I’ve lost that knack by virtue of being able to take so many images.

Trying to recapture it recently hasn’t worked so well – the knack was mostly subconscious. But this has reminded me properly of what I was doing. Thanks very much!

I love Ansel Adams for the fact that so much of what set his images apart was the development style he created. It’s something I refer to when people start to talk about how developing a photo is somehow “cheating” (as if there’s a rulebook?). So many people have the odd impression that professionally shot images are just as the camera recorded them.

As for “faking talent”… you? Nope.

By: CJW

CJW — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:41:20 +0000

Hi Jonas – sorry it’s taken me a while to reply, but I’m very happy you like the blog, and happier still that it’s made you want to get out of the city and explore! Volume is definitely the key to getting better as a photographer (at least at first) – keep shooting, critiquing, deleting and taking more!