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I’m sitting in the airport lounge at Zurich, passing time until my next flight to Maó (Mahón), Menorca. I’ll be attending the Photopills Camp, for a week of photography, talks, expeditions, and a bit of relaxation in between, organized by the developers of the Photopills app, and co-hosted by a bunch of pro photographers offering their knowledge and experience.
I’ve never attended anything like this before. While I’m super excited to grow and take my photography to the next level, I have to say I’m also a bit anxious and nervous. It seems a bit silly, but the impostor syndrome is strong. I was already having second thoughts a few months ago, when I had to complete my payment, and very nearly cancelled my place. In a lot of ways I feel like I’m not good enough and don’t deserve this. I know, I know, I shouldn’t be comparing myself to other photographers on social media. You only see a very carefully curated feed of finished work, and not the failures. I also haven’t sold any of my artwork since setting up my online store. Marketing and self-promotion is not one of my strong suits, and “build it and they will come” is a myth. So that’s been weighing on my mind and making me feel a bit dejected about my pursuit of photography as a career.
Still, despite these doubts, I’m looking forward to spending some time with other people with similar interests, and doing a bit of photography in somewhere new. From what I’ve seen, there are some stunning locations in Menorca.
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I’m excited for some of the AI-powered tools, but also worry that generative AI might have a negative impact on creative industries
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When you’re driving in Google Maps you’re re-enacting an ancient space combat sim
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There’s no winning, is there? Damned if you do, damned if you don’t (sharing/marketing your photography on IG and Facebook)
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Did you get caught up in the hype over NFTs, and have bought some, or even minted and sold them? Sorry if you did. Yup, they were (and still are) a scam.
Of the 73,257 NFT collections we identified, an eye-watering 69,795 of them have a market cap of 0 Ether (ETH).
This statistic effectively means that 95% of people holding NFT collections are currently holding onto worthless investments. Having looked into those figures, we would estimate that 95% to include over 23 million people who’s investments are now worthless.
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So here’s the thing I was writing about, without the writing because I’m tired and can’t be bothered.
Full details and a larger version on Astrobin
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I wrote a whole blog post in the Icro app, and a swipe to scroll to the top caused the entire post composition window to be dismissed, and it deleted my entire draft without warning. 🤬
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Printed and framed. These are my photos that will be on show at the ‘Setúbal Sublime’ exhibition at Crespaço, an art gallery in Setúbal starting this week.
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2023 has certainly started out with a bang. Been flat-out doing multiple things to get this photography biz started. Having a bunch of prints made, mounted, packaged and mailed to friends and family all over the world, as gifts; preparing, printing and framing a few pictures for my first exhibition; social media posts and experimenting with ads; updating my new website and preparing it for e-commerce; registering a company and wrapping my head around concepts like VAT. Phew!
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A bunch of packages I posted last week just got returned by CTT. All of them US-bound. Turns out I need to lodge an online customs declaration (in addition to the hand-written one on the prepaid envelopes I used). Ugh.
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I have some exciting news! I’ve decided on a career change from UI/UX front-end development, to focus on photography. More on this - www.jpoh.blog/jonathan-…
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Pathway to the Stars
Composite of the foreground and buildings shot at blue hour, and 18x 2 minute exposures on a star tracker
Location: Cabo Espichel, Portugal Camera: Canon EOS 6D (astro-modified) Lens: Samyang 14mm f/2.8 Exposure: 36 minutes (18 x 2') Aperture: f/2.8 ISO: 800 Mount: iOptron SkyTracker (discontinued 2010 model)
#astrophotography #astrophoto #landscapeastro #landscapeastrophotography #portugal #caboespichel #milkyway
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Wow. Got an email from PhotoStation (authorised Canon service centre in Lisbon) yesterday at 5pm that they are closing down today, and I should collect my lenses that I dropped off for repair. It’s been with them since August and apparently only one of them got fixed. 😡
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Oh no. My new BenQ SW321C appears to have a bunch of dark/dead pixels 😭
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Can’t believe PhotoPills Camp 2023 is already sold out, less than 24 hours after the announcement email was sent out. I was (still am) keen to go, some of my most admired photographers will be there.
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Fascination deep dive into the ‘baseline’ test in Blade Runner 2049 and the Voight-Kampf test in PKD’s book and the first movie
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Molly White from Web3 is Going Just Great dropping truth bombs on the Crypto stage at Web Summit. Brilliant
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LIS feels like SFO right now.
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Oof, it’s a big fella.
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It’s here! My re-print of (F)light Trails, nearly double the size, and with improved processing and editing to correctly colour-match the printed output. It is incredible, and I’m very happy with how it came out, considering what a difficult image it is to work on
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After a long hiatus, I’m getting back into astrophotography.
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I took a bit of time to reprocess one of my father’s photographs taken 10 years ago, on a 3 megapixel camera. This is the result.
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Was out late to Santa Susana again, this time with a new friend, the guy I bought the modified Canon 6D camera from, for a spot of astrophotography again. This time there were no campers so the area was super dark, though there’s still light pollution from the cities all around
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Milky Way at Pego do Altar reservoir, near Santa Susana, Alcácer do Sal, Portugal
Same source images as the previous version, but processed differently in Photoshop.
Managed to bring out a lot more detail and colour that I did not even realise was there!
- Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M5Mark II
- Lens: Olympus M.Zuiko ED 12-40mm f/2.8 PRO (at 12mm)
- Exposure time: 8s (* 21= 168s total)
- Aperture: f/2.8
- ISO: 6400
21 light frames stacked in Sequator, post-processing in Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom Classic.
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Sunset at Santa Susana (Pego do Altar reservoir)
- Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M5Mk2
- Lens: Olympus M.Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8 (at 12mm)
- Shutter: 1/5s
- Aperture: f/3.5
- ISO: 1600
- Filter: Cokin ND8 3-stop soft graduated neutral density
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