Disclaimer: I have lived for a while in the Netherlands and loved it. For that reason, there is a strong possibility that my visit to Antwerp has been tinted positively by that experience. Antwerp is the second biggest city in Belgium and the capital of the Antwerp district in the region of Flanders. With of one of the biggest…
Algés, Portugal morning session
The session Early spring, warm weather and dull sky. That would be the best description for the morning session I had yesterday at Algés, Lisbon, Portugal. Being quite close to my home, meant I could spend a couple more minutes in bed while I checked the weather forecast. In a lot more words it went: DULL. When this happens, we must make the…
ruim photo sessions ALPHA series VLOG
Creating a VLOG is something I have been trying to take off for a while. I really appreciate the work and vlogs of some great photographers out there (here are three of my frequent watched list):
I feel that video is a great way of sharing information and specially the all the action of a session.
That said, I have started to make some short videos during my sessions and started what I am calling ALPHA series (alpha definition) .
They are very basic, shaky, speech is lame, etc, etc., I have struggled with myself if I should release them or not, as I like to show only my best work; but in the end I hope that on one hand, this will encourage people to share more! It doesn’t have to be perfect. On the other hand, your feedback will certainly speed up my evolution into becoming better.
Comment, feedback and/or ask questions will be a great help for me to evolve the channel and I would really appreciate it if you could drop some lines and/or like the video and subscribe the channel.. 🙂
Thank you!!
TravelAround: Europe – Barcelona, Spain
Having a geographical distributed team (#MSPFE), spread through Europe, has many advantages. I will not get into many details right now, but for the sake of this article, there is a relevant one: when you gather the team, well… some of us have to travel. This time I was one of the selected therefore having to travel to the gathering point –…
Trip classifications
I feel my analytical background kicking in… When I look at my travel posts, I feel there is something missing, as some sort of Trip classification that could help me on the organization of geographies, but also you who are reading a post and maybe make a decision to go somewhere or not. Stars, 1 to 5 classifications are fine…
TravelAround: Africa – Luanda, Angola
Angola and its capital Luanda, are not a usual touristic destination. Not as yet anyway! The potential is there and is enormous. Nevertheless it is certainly one of the work destination for many Portuguese, mainly due to our common language and historical facts. A lot of families still hold members of both countries. Portugal and Angola have a common history and one that…
Unpacking my new travel mate: Canon Powershot G7x MK II
Starting what I expect will be come a steady paced channel, I am sharing the unpacking of my latest acquisition: a small sneaky yet powerful advanced camera, the Canon Powershot G7x MK II. This is the replacement camera for my travel companion, the faithful Canon G15 that has followed me around for some years now. The motivation for changing came out of a recent visit to Sweden, where I was presented with a spectacular snow fall. During that trip it was very difficult to capture the subtle but yet ever so important texture of snow.
There is something about unpacking videos that I like: they
These type of cameras are specially useful when travelling. They are compact, yet they have all the manual capabilities that allows me to do things my way when I feel like it. What has drawn me to this choice:
- Compact: no other set of lenses needed
- Sensor size: 1” one of the biggest sensors I could get for a compact format. Sensor size directly influences the dynamic range which was the initial cause for the change in the first place
- Aperture: I want a fast equipment 1.8 is one of the best apertures you can find in this class of equipment
- Wide angle: 20mm – 100mm; Just because I like to bring a lot into a frame… 🙂
Nice to haves:
- Tilting screen: I’m not getting younger and somehow people find it strange to find a chap lying on the ground to capture an image… go figure
- Wi-fi with advanced remote control: the phone app allows me to control everything from a distance, including through the lens image
- Interesting FPS (frames per second): 8fps
Hope you enjoy it and make sure you drop by my youtube channel.
Here is one thorough review of the camera on DPreview: Second Time Around: Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark II Review
TravelAround: CopperBelt, Zâmbia
Zâmbia is a southern African country that has Angola, Congo, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia as neighboring countries. With a large country size and a very disperse population of 13M+, Zambia is one of the largest mining countries, with a region named Copper Belt as a reference to that specific industry. This was the zone I visited for…
TravelAround: Gävle and Sandviken, Sweden
November 2016. In Lisbon I start packing my cabin sized bag with my first (of many I hope) trip to Sweden. Outside a warm Autumn with temperatures around 18º C strongly influences me on the choices I make regarding clothing. A quick check on one of many weather forecast sites, focus me on a reality around 0ºC an possible some…
TravelAround: Vancouver, Canada
While traveling to TR, I had a fabulous opportunity to visit Canada for the first time. I headed for Vancouver in an inspiring mentoring session. Thank you Willy-Peter Shaub for a receiving me, spectacular conversations and sightseeing. Here are some humble captures of a the lovely scenery. All images captured with a Canon G12, handheld, no filters. Post production in…