Hitting a LULL

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There are times when we all feel blighted and unable to take a picture. Why is this, where does this lack of motivation materialize from ?

Motivation to take pictures generally come from and external source, money, recognition that compel you to get out of your bed in the morning and go and do what you have to do, but, motivation is, in my opinion is not the most important part of this process.

Inspiration, stimulation or arousal of the mind, feelings, etc, to special or unusual activity or creativity without inspiration we have no motivation.

Inspiration comes about because of change or seeing the possibility of change.  If you always do the same things, this will be either minimal or non-existent.  You must search out and have new experiences in order to find inspiration.  This works by seeing new places or people who can inspire you.  There are many ways to find and the inspiring moments and things will different for everyone.

Look at :

Blogs, books and magazines, listen and look at people and things in the world around you, movies and forums, art go to the museum and seek it in the pictures, nature, history,travel and even religion and definitely BREAK your routines, do things differently, look at thing in a different way, think differently, challenge your way of looking at the world.

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Play around with images not only in camera but on the computer. Try monochrome, try filters, try introducing movement into an image during taking or later in Photoshop, anything that will help get the creative juices going again.

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Trying setting yourself some projects that are unusual to you, make them challenging, challenge your skills, use your skills, develop your skills.

Get involved. http://kyddmiller.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/lilys-village-a-walk-around/ . Find interesting things and worthwhile things to photograph. Give your services to projects you have an interest in it keeps you ”on the ball”.

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There are times when we all feel blighted and unable to take a picture. Why is this, where does this lack of motivation materialize from ?

Motivation to take pictures generally come from and external source, money, recognition that compel you to get out of your bed in the morning and go and do what you have to do, but, motivation is, in my opinion is not the most important part of this process.

Inspiration,stimulationorarousalofthemind,feelings,etc,tospecialor unusualactivityorcreativity without inspiration we have no motivation.

Inspiration comes about because of change or seeing the possibility of change. If you always do the same things, this will be either minimal or non-existent. You must search out and have new experiences in order to find inspiration. This works by seeing new places or people who can inspire you. There are many ways to find and the inspiring moments and things will different for everyone.

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Vibrant Ship Graveyard — Edge of Humanity Magazine

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Artist Anna Wacker is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of these images.  From the series ‘Art in the Ship Graveyard’.  To see Anna’s body of work, click on any photograph.   Run Before The Wind   Cape Horn Fever   Old Salt   Corsair   Pirate   One can find the most fascinating…

Vibrant Ship Graveyard — Edge of Humanity Magazine

Minimalist Street Photography | London — Edge of Humanity Magazine

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Minimalist  Street  Photographer Selaru Ovidiu is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of these images.  To see Selaru’s body of work, click on any photograph.                   All images © Selaru Ovidiu     See also: Abstract Portfolio By Selaru Ovidiu         Edge of…

Minimalist Street Photography | London — Edge of Humanity Magazine

Tokyo | A City Of Unconnected Atoms Of Shadows & Ghosts — Edge of Humanity Magazine

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Photographer Anne Murat is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this photo essay.  From the project  ‘Tokyo Solo’.  To see Anne’s body of work, click on any image. 418 more words

Tokyo | A City Of Unconnected Atoms Of Shadows & Ghosts — Edge of Humanity Magazine

Fujifilm X-E4 & XF27mm f2.8R WR first look – Sleek & Sensible — jonasrask | photography

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Well well well. It sure looks like the X-E line isn’t dead afterall. One of the most pocketable APS-C Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Cameras just got even more pocketable, and even more sleek and stylish. All of it without compromising features of the models that comes before it. But is there really a place for a […]

Fujifilm X-E4 & XF27mm f2.8R WR first look – Sleek & Sensible — jonasrask | photography

Plastic Mess in Phnom Penh

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The nightmare of the plastic and polystyrene waste scattered around the city does not seem to be getting any better. There seems to be little political commitment to tackling this problem and without that, it will never go away.

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As seen above is the collection of plastic waste at Bueng Trabek this fills the canal and just seems to get bigger. This will not rot down or go away and needs action to remove it and dispose of it in a proper fashion.

People are living with this stinking mess literally on their doorstep. The problem is caused by people actively or passively dumping their waste into the open sewer that leads to Bueng Trabek lake. The people need to start taking more responsibility for the care and disposal of their day too day waste and a much more effective system of collection must be implemented by those with that responsibility.

It saddens me personally to see this potentially great city let down by its inability to keep itself clean and maintain at least a level of hygiene that is not a danger to some of its population.

Five simple things that you as an individual can do to reduce plastic waste.

1. Break up with bottled water.

Save hundreds of dollars per years by saying goodbye to single-use plastic bottles.

2. Shop with reusable bags.

100,000 marine animals are killed by plastic bags each year. Switch to reusables to reduce your overall waste.

3. Skip the straw.

Do without or if you like having something to sip with, use a glass, bamboo, hay, metal or another type of reusable straw. Ask for no straw when ordering drinks.

4. Recycle everything!

And we do mean everything you cannot reuse, compost, or donate.

5. Choose seasonal and local.

Avoid prepackaged food, shop at the local farmers’ markets and refuse plastic packaging.

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Black and White photography with Fujifilm Cameras.

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My photography started with making pictures (and printing them) in Monochrome (Black and White). For me this style of photography brings with it a reality and a way of seeing the world that is different to colour images.

Fujifilm cameras have made this much simpler by including within the camera the ability to make monochrome images using their own approximations of their films from the past. This is actually done ”in camera”.

Fujifilm XT3

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Managed to pick up a copy of this camera, handle used, here in Phnom Penh, several months ago and what a great purchase that was. After using it for a few months and making some decent images with it I now feel in a position to give a working photographers opinion on it.

As mainly a still image maker I am less interested in this cameras Video abilities, even though they are pretty darned good.

The FUJIFILM X-T3 features a newly-developed back-illuminated X-Trans CMOS sensor, the fourth generation to feature in the X Series. It has a resolution of 26.1MP. The sensor uses a unique color filter array, synonymous to X-Trans CMOS sensors, to control moiré and false color without the use of an optical low-pass filter. Its back-illuminated structure enhances image quality while maintaining a high S/N ratio. Furthermore, ISO160, previously available only as extended ISO, is now part of the normal ISO range, allowing you to achieve incredibly clean, noise free images.

The FUJIFILM X-T3’s sensor has increased the phase detection AF area to the entire frame with 2.16M phase detection pixels. The low-light AF sensitivity has also been extended enabling high-speed AF in even lower light conditions. I have found the AF to be a big improvement over that in my XT2 even though that was no slouch.

The performance of face-detection AF on a moving person has been doubled and works very well IMO. The eye-detection AF works in AF-C mode, maintaining accurate focus-tracking with portraits.

Continuous shooting of 11fps with the mechanical shutter no longer requires the optional vertical grip. I have the vertical grip and it not only give high speed shooting but extra battery life which was always a complaint with Fuji Cameras.

The FUJIFILM X-T3 offers 16 Film Simulation modes so that you can match your true photographic intention in a similar way to how photographers used to choose purpose-specific photographic films. I am not a photogrpher that feels the need to use RAW (all the time) as I find the way this (and other Fuji offerings) produces out of the camera JPEGs to be astounding and saves me numerous hours in post processing.

One of the main things that attracted me to the Fujifilm system is the way that it manages colour and the ability to bracket using 3 different film silmulations, including monochrome. I can adjust each basic film simulation to the way I want it to be (in the camera) and save that as a custom setting. (only works with JPEGs). Very easy to do.

All these images are untouched straight from the camera

Fuji has always come into some critism about its AF speed. I have never really found it to be a problem even on my X Pro 1, (much better after they upgraded the firmware). The XT2 and XT3 are IMO good and very good and are able to meet all situations. There are many AF phase detection points that are now easily seletable via the small joy stick on the rear of the body. Phase detection AF is the AF system used in viewfinder shooting on mirrorless and DSLR cameras. It works by splitting the light entering the lens into two so that it forms two images. … Phase detection AF enables autofocus be established swiftly, since the camera knows exactly how much and in which direction to move the focusing lens.

Weight, even with the extra handgrip and batteries is comfortable and manageable. The camera feel solid and well made. Nowhere near as heavy as my Canon 1D MkIV which makes it great for use as a daily carry around camera.

Fujifilm XT3 with attached battery grip

Reviewing your Archive

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In these days because of the Covid pandemic and the restrictions in movement you may find yourself unable, or unwilling, to venture out and take new images. Now is a good time to gather your previous years of images and look for images that you may not have worked on before or need to be redone.

Too this end I have rediscoved images that I had forgotten about or just wanted to have another go at processing them differently. I have many 100’s of thousands of images that I feel deserved to be looked over again and now have the time to do it because of Covid.

When I scour my images I try to find images that I may have overlooked in my initial high grading and use them as a basis for tracking other images down. I have about 7TB of images stored and there are many that have never been really looked at (or printed).