Stacy Pearsall: Nikkor 400mm Lens

Lens (mm): 400 Teleconverter: 2x ISO: 200 Aperture: 5.6 Shutter: 1/500 Exp. Comp.: -1.0 Program: Aperture Priority The AF-S NIKKOR 400mm f/2.8G ED VR lens is not only hefty in terms of size and weight, it’s a big price tag. However for those who need to reach out and touch someone, this is the lens [...]

Stacy Pearsall: Nikkor 105mm Lens

Lens (mm): 105 ISO: 100 Aperture: 2.8 Shutter: 1/125 Exp. Comp.: -1.0 Program: Aperture Priority The AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens is actually a 1:1 life-size ratio macro lens. Basically this means you can get close to your subject and still have the ability to focus. One of the other key perks to [...]

Nikkor 24mm Tilt Shift Lens by Stacy Pearsall

what todo if you ended it with your boyfriend but want him back Lens (mm): 24 ISO: 100 Aperture: 3.5 Shutter: 1/125 Program: Manual I know that it’s a matter of opinion whether a picture produced by a tilt shift lens is a gimmick or not. I’m a firm believer that with any technique or [...]

Nikkor 85mm Lens By Stacy Pearsall

Lens (mm): 85 ISO: 800 Aperture: 1.4 Shutter: 1/200 Program: Aperture Priority The Nikon AF-S Nikkor 85mm Lens is promoted mainly toward portrait photographers, but I think it can be used for so much more than just people pictures.  There are several generations of the 85mm out there, but no matter which one you get [...]

Melissa Mercier: Dextrophobia – Fear of things to the right side of the body

A music box should represent comfort, security, hope and dreams, but if you suffer from dextrophobia and it’s placed on the right side of your body even this innocent children’s toy becomes unbearable. People who suffer from this phobia fear anything placed on their right side. Odd, but true. I find this phobia very unusual. [...]

Melissa and the self portrait #19: Scolionophobia; The fear of school.

Remember your first day of school? That day is filled with excitement, fear, change, bravery and the crossing of a threshold. I am a bilingual Canadian, but I grew up speaking only french in the province of Quebec. This self portrait reminds me of the courage that it took to leave my small home town [...]

Melissa and the self portrait #18:Looking into a mirror

Looking into a mirror is like peering into the eyes of God. There are no lies, no places to hide from the truth that comes from within. I imagine the fear of looking into a mirror is really the fear of facing one’s self. I played with these ideas in this self portrait, keeping the [...]

Stefan Steinmann: My experience

As I mentioned in the first article, it is now about 3 years ago when I started to make the first drop pictures. If you decide to make some pictures of water drops sooner or later you will come to the point when you have to take the decision to use an infra red light-barrier [...]

Melissa and the self portrait #15 –Clinophobia

One of those hot summer nights; too sweaty to sleep under the sheets, yet the silky cotton is too soft to resist. This image explores Clinophobia, the fear of going to bed incorporating the feeling of spying or being spied upon depending on the viewer’s perspective. For this image, I used: Hasselblad body Phase One [...]

Stefano Pesarelli: Bafana-Bafana

For the first time the 2010 Football World Cup was played on the African continent; while all lover the world the matches were broadcasted on big screens and plasma TVs, Africa experienced the matches of Johannesburg’s Ellis Park Stadium or of the Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg in a ferment out of the ordinary. Far [...]

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