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Moving Waves: long exposure photography with a smartphone

Moving Waves: long exposure photography with a smartphone

On my 2022 return to workshops and photo tours around the area I call the Atlantic Realm I introduce another challenge: photographing…
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Smartphone photography: trading resolution for emotion

Smartphone photography: trading resolution for emotion

It’s exciting to go back to the same places to recreate with a smartphone shots made before with a SLR, and discover it’s possible to make…
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Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra: buy a case to protect the lenses

Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra: buy a case to protect the lenses

If you’ve just acquired a Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra because of its powerful cameras, and want to keep the lenses protected, then this is the…
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Smartphone’s long exposures: spot the difference!

Smartphone’s long exposures: spot the difference!

Recently, I published a long exposure of a coastal scenery, shot with a smartphone, that got some attention. Now it’s time to reveal that…
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Shot with a smartphone: the intimacy of flowers

Shot with a smartphone: the intimacy of flowers

Can you go from shooting flowers with a 640mm lens on a DSLR to a smartphone and still have fun? You can bet you can. The challenges are…
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Exposure is worthless… without compensation

Exposure is worthless… without compensation

If the title grabbed your attention, let’s make clear it is not that kind of exposure I mean. We’re not talking about exposure in camera…
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Flowers My Own Way

Flowers My Own Way

When I say FLOWERS people say MACRO, in a Pavlovian way that amuses me. Well, for me, flower photography does not mean going into the…
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One Lens, One Hour, My Vision of Autumn

One Lens, One Hour, My Vision of Autumn

Scouting day. A Fall day, with graying skies and the light from the Sun trying, here and there, to get through. One hour exploring one…
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Evolving in photography: from Canon EOS to a smartphone

Evolving in photography: from Canon EOS to a smartphone

If anything, this pandemic period has taught me that photography is more than big cameras and lenses. This is how my journey from DSLRs to…
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Scouting for flowers with a smartphone… before pesticides kill them all

Scouting for flowers with a smartphone… before pesticides kill them all

Armed with a smartphone to scout for flower photography locations, you are faced with the somber reality: municipalities controlling weed…
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Full Stop guides: use this downtime to get to know your camera

Full Stop guides: use this downtime to get to know your camera

Camera manuals are boring to read, but cameras are complex to master. If you cant’ remember or don’t know how to use a specific function…
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