I wanted to see if I can like the “look” of the vintage Soviet-era manual lenses. The answer is still firm nope. They are dreamy, soft and everything, but have way too much melancholy built in. I can imagine using them to photograph some mildly depressing rainy evening scene in
Thirty three years ago, back when I was ten, I had a rather peculiar hobby: holography. Long time, but I still remember the difference between Leith-Upatnieks and Denisyuk methods. And of course I know the difference between diffraction and refraction!…
…But most people, including photographers, don’t. Majority of photographers are absolutely
At the beginning of the century, I formulated a “strafe blur” technique. In short, this is the way to intentionally create a dynamically blurred background while shooting with ultrawide lens. While you sidestep with the camera, your rear-synched flash (balanced to ambient) freezes the foreground, and the rest is… well,
