Recent content by Nick Owen

Style is a problem sometimes. It has a lot to do with fashion, and fashion is transient, and however hard we try, we are all a little susceptible to its influences from time to time. In the Social Media storm we are living through, popularity is King. Generic images proliferate and to stand out...

Help! May I humbly ask from any of the Fujipedia master guru's that reside here, an answer to a problem ? The problem being... A couple of days ago, wanting to test a manual lens on the XH1 set up as I want it, iso on auto, limited to 3200iso. The camera had been working exactly as expected...

So, having pulled the trigger on an XH-1, took it out for the first time today. I'm happy to find that right off the bat, the IBIS allowed me to easily get a sharp shot while allowing the subject a little motion blur. My thoughts? Well, the camera is definitely leisurely in start up and...

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Nice shot that @Graham. So, wish me luck as I'm just about to pull the trigger on buying an XH1 and what will be my first ever Fuji. I know its a flawed camera in many people's eyes, but nevertheless I rather like it. The price is now at the right point, the size is right (for my hands) the...

The overriding and prevailing sentiment here seems to be that it's all been done before. And that's true... until, of course, someone does something nobody has done before.:) I'm reminded of this famous saying which could also be interpreted in a photographic sense: "Everything that can be...

The second image is a clear and salutary lesson in why you should never have a naked flame around when undergoing alternative treatment for extreme flatulence.

Sorry not been around much, so I thought I'd share this 'elemental' image from my Sunny Spring holiday. Hand held in a gale wasn't easy while waiting for the right wave... 1/25th sec at f2.0

Understood, but for me the softness is there already in her expression. I'll delete it now.

Excellent spread, great pictures and delightfully written. Photographically, you've brought a very sympathetic visual style that fits the subject perfectly, so well done to SWPP for spotting good work and for publishing a non-members work. (I was ignorant of who SWPP was btw) As an ex-northerner...

Ah ha! None of my snaps fit with any of those themes explains why I've never been explored! And I thought simply hiding away from any groups and not talking with anyone was all it took. Phewww... I can now rest easy under my rock.

The OP makes a very interesting point that nobody seems to have picked up upon. And that is the fact, as the OP shows, that digital capture, captures essentially...nothing. The image information is for the most part interpolated or 'made up' from algorithms into ephemeral 0's and 1's that can be...

There is also a growing appreciation or belief that analogue photography is more an honest expression of the real. It provides direct 'evidence' of reality unlike digital which is essentially a collection of data, or 'non-real' ephemera of 1's and 0's quite unlike a negative which is a direct...

Yes, you’re right, I was quite out of order there. My apologies. I get unreasonably irritated when images that are clearly (to me) processed ‘ugly’ (again to me) and then get diefied as brilliant photography. Mea culpa and to each their own.

From your original question it’s clear that you’re a person with limited knowledge of photography and painfully clear you’re a classic photographic fashion victim.