Olympus OM-D E-M5 - Panasonic 14mm (28mm eq.) Asph. 1/500" f6.3 ISO 200 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Olympus OM-D E-M5 - Panasonic 14mm (28mm eq.) Asph. 1/640" f6.3 ISO 200 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Olympus OM-D E-M5 - Olympus M Zuiko 45mm (90mm. eq.) 1/400" f6.3 ISO 200 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Continue reading

Sigma DP2 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 30mm (45mm eq.) prime 1/100" f10 ISO 100 Sigma DP2 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 30mm (45mm eq.) prime 1/100" f10 ISO 100 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Continue reading

Sigma DP2 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 30mm (45mm eq.) prime 1/320" f8 ISO 200 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Sigma DP1X - Fixed Sigma 16mm (28mm eq.) prime 1/1250" f7.1 ISO 100 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Continue reading

Olympus OM-D E-M5 - Olympus Zuiko M 12mm (24mm eq.) 1/640 f9 ISO 200 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Continue reading

Canon PowerShot G15 @ 14mm (65mm eq.) 1/2500" f4 ISO 160 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Canon PowerShot G15 @ 30mm (140mm eq.) 1/2500" f5 ISO 160 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Canon PowerShot G15 @ 30mm (140mm eq.) 1/2500" f4.5 ISO 160 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Canon PowerShot G15 @ 20mm (95mm eq.) 1/2500" f5 ISO 160 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Continue reading

Sigma DP2 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 30mm (45mm eq.) prime 1/500" f8 ISO 100 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Sigma DP2 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 30mm (45mm eq.) prime 1/400" f8 ISO 100 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Continue reading

Sigma DP2 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 30mm (45mm eq.) prime w/polarizer 1/640" f8 ISO 100 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Sigma DP2 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 30mm (45mm eq.) prime w/polarizer 1/640" f8 ISO 100 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Continue reading

Canon PowerShot G15 @ 6mm (28mm eq.) 1/1250" f8 ISO 80 Cropped out-of-camera jpg, converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Canon PowerShot G15 @ 6mm (28mm eq.) 1/1000" f8 ISO 80 Out-of-camera jpg, converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Not the same detail rendition as Sigma's -here and here- nor Olympus' -here- in those photographs of course, but thanks to the still and smooth water surface of this calm sunset over Cannes, extreme detail isn't something we feel it's missing anyway. So the awesome Canon G15 gets the job done, quitely and unobtrusively. I like that. Continue reading

Sigma DP2 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 30mm (45mm eq.) prime w/polarizer 1/80" f8 ISO 100 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex pro 2 Sigma DP2 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 30mm (45mm eq.) prime w/polarizer 1/250" f8 ISO 100 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex pro 2 Continue reading

Sigma DP2 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 30mm (45mm eq.) prime 1/50" f5 ISO 100 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Sigma DP2 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 30mm (45mm eq.) prime 1/40" f8 ISO 200 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 This blog got its 200,000th visit today. It's a tornado of hits, mostly by regualar visitors. PhotoGraphia is proud to have earned such a faithful readership. All the more so, considering that I write tech articles just sporadically. Most of my posts are textless photographs which claim to speak by themselves, either alone or combined in... Continue reading

Olympus OM-D E-M5 - Olympus M Zuiko 75mm 1/2500" f10 ISO 200 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Yes, I indulge to seascape sometimes (more often than I do to humans, as a matter of fact). Perhaps you'll see more of this in the future. Everybody knows how inspiring British photographer Michael Kenna's work can be to all of us. As far as monochrome photographs of water surfaces are concerned, he is a master. Maybe THE master (in the present days, at least). But more than to Kenna, I owe my interest in depicting seascapes to the Italian... Continue reading

Sigma DP3 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 50mm (75mm eq.) prime 1/500" f4 ISO 100 Sigma DP3 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 50mm (75mm eq.) prime 1/500" f4 ISO 100 Sigma DP3 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 50mm (75mm eq.) prime 1/640" f4 ISO 100 Continue reading

Sigma DP3 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 50mm (75mm eq.) prime 1/500" f4 ISO 100 Sigma DP3 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 50mm (75mm eq.) prime 1/640" f4 ISO 100 Continue reading

Sigma DP3 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 50mm (75mm eq.) prime w/polarizer 1/200" f8 ISO 100 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Sigma DP3 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 50mm (75mm eq.) prime w/polarizer 1/200" f8 ISO 100 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Continue reading

Sigma DP3 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 50mm (75mm eq.) prime w/polarizer 1/125" f11 ISO 100 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Sigma DP3 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 50mm (75mm eq.) prime w/polarizer 1/200" f8 ISO 100 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Continue reading

Sigma DP3 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 50mm (75mm eq.) prime 1/125" f8 ISO 100 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Sigma DP3 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 50mm (75mm eq.) prime 1/200" f8 ISO 100 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Continue reading

Canon PowerShot G1X @ 15mm (27mm eq.) w/polarizer 1/320" f5.6 ISO 100 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Canon PowerShot G1X @ 58mm (105mm eq.) 1/250" f5.6 ISO 100 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Continue reading

Sigma DP2 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 30mm (45mm eq.) prime w/polarizer 1/160" f8 ISO 160 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Canon PowerShot G15 @ 6mm (28mm eq.) w/polarizer (handheld) 1/3200" f5 ISO 160 Out-of-camera jpg, converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Canon PowerShot G15 @8,4mm (38mm eq.) w/polarizer (handheld) 1/1250" f4 ISO 160 Out-of-camera jpg, converted into monochrome with Silver Efex pro 2 Continue reading

Sigma DP2 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 30mm (45mm eq.) prime w/polarizer 1/100" f8 ISO 100 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Believe me, I'm no believer. Yet I often find myself taking photographs of churches. Why? Reason is that in my country post WW2 architecture has been a marginal phenomenon after all. At least until last century's end. Holy buildings are the only exception. Catholics are well known for cleverly using arts in their propaganda: paintings, sculptures, music, motion pictures... and architecture helped them in taking control of a wide part of the so-called Western world. Completed in... Continue reading

Sigma DP2 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 30mm (45mm eq.) prime 1/200" f14 ISO 125 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 It only took half step on my left in order to include the palm trees and building in the far background, thus radically transforming a bi-dimensional and strictly graphic composition into a three-dimensional and more narrative image. Honestly, the first photograph better suits my taste and abstract "vision" (please forgive this pretentious word), whereas the one below arguably tells much more about the building in the foreground and its location. Which, by the way, is the same depicted... Continue reading

Sigma DP2 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 30mm (45mm eq.) prime w/polarizer 1/1000" f8 ISO 200 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex pro 2 I like going back to old subjects. Because I couldn't manage to get satisfactory results out of them, most of the times. Or, sometimes, because I did. This is the case of the newly opened Salle de Spectacles (Performing Arts Hall) in Antibes (French Riviera), designed by French architects Blandine Roche and Patrick Tavernier from Archidev. I already posted some photographs of that building here and here. A couple of months ago I rode to the Salle... Continue reading

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Sigma DP2 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 30mm (45mm eq.) prime w/polarizer 1/640" f8 ISO 100 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Designed by French architect Jean-Jacques Ory and located in Juan-les-Pins (French Riviera), the brand-new Palais des Congrès is a beatiful 500-seat convention hall and facility. Sigma DP2 Merrill - Fixed Sigma 30mm (45mm eq.) prime w/polarizer 1/800" f8 ISO 200 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Continue reading

Canon PowerShot G15 @ 12mm (55mm eq.) 1/3200" f5 ISO 160 Out-of-camera jpg, converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Canon PowerShot G15 @ 14mm (65mm eq.) 1/2500" f4.5 ISO 160 Out-of-camera jpg, converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Continue reading

Canon PowerShot G1X @ 60mm (110mm eq.) 1/160" f11 ISO 160 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Canon PowerShot G1X @ 55mm (100mm eq.) w/polarizer 1/160" f11 ISO 160 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Canon PowerShot G1X @ 15mm (28mm eq.) w/polarizer 1/640" f5.6 ISO 100 Converted into monochrome with Silver Efex Pro 2 Continue reading