Update
Any random update, like a rant or some kind of news.
I have a new site! I explain it more in the post, but I really hit a wall with the old one. Hope this one works better! Now I must rest, I have a flight early in the morning, but do take a look! www.joaopedroalmeida.com/en/posts/…
Há várias coisas que gosto na Livraria Palavra de Viajante, a começar pela Ana e a Dulce, mas esta é uma das minhas preferidas: a mesinha à entrada com os livros em destaque, quase sempre com tema a juntá-los, sempre bem escolhidos! www.instagram.com/p/DJUGSGA…www.instagram.com/p/DJUGSGA…
It’s great that Nikon is open to vintage inspired cameras, but what would be even better would be lenses, and I’m not even talking about vintage look. A new take on AF-D lenses for Z mount! petapixel.com/2025/04/2…petapixel.com/2025/04/2…
One of my questions for my new photo website is whether having comments or not. A static website (how I chose to build it) will always require an external solution, I don’t think a paid service makes sense and free solutions (like Disqus) are a privacy nightmare. Probably I’ll go without it.
I have a little page where I post the stuff that caught my eye (https://tirelesseye.tumblr.com/), a simple little curation of what inspires me. This used to be almost exclusively Instagram, but a funny trend has been happening: there are more and more items from Flickr.
There are some news related with my presets for Darktable (or styles, I never know what to call those…). TLDR: it’s a new site and I moved things around in Github, but please take a look nevertheless, and share your feedback you want to!
Sometimes you cover up not so bright days, filled with things that aren’t making you that happy, by procrastinating with other things that out you in good mood. In this case was booking flights for another trip. It’s not a proper way to handle your issues, but sometimes it’s alright.
I really care little about celebrations, international days and all those things, including #WorldPhotographyDay, I’m that old guy that complains nowadays there’s a day for everything. But photography has taken me to the most coolest places, and put the most awesome people in my path, and that’s definitely something worth celebrating.
Darktable, the open source photo developer I use (and built film emulation presets), has two releases per year. You can almost adjust your calendar on it, because it’s around each solstice. And because we just hit Summer solstice there’s a new release out there. darktable 4.8.0 released
More and more I hate flying! Not that I’m afraid of flying, actually the time in the airplane is the eye of the storm of this thing called “air travel after the pandemic” (not that before was great), which starts the time you try to book the flights. Yes, prices are sky high; yes, now every kind of luggage is paid separately; yes, the price of that is also sky high… But every time you trick to book something you seem to find a new trick up their sleeve, the most recent for me is some companies somehow finding a way to charge more for cabin luggage than checked luggage. Yup, you read it right, more expensive to bring the luggage with you in the cabin…
Still in the aftermath of Gustavo Minas workshop last weekend, one thing I really enjoy watching the outcome of when several photographers share the same limited space. It was already Sunday’s late afternoon and we were gathering for a beer before, everything was over, literally just chilling out before heading home. But all of us, as the light went down, eventually started taking some shots while chatting with the beer in the hand. Including me. And throughout the week, as people started sharing these late shots with everyone else, it felt nice to check all those different views of several photographers, at the same spot, at the same time.
O problema não é apenas pessoas que não leram um livro. Eu posso ter doutoramento em Física Quântica, mas isso não me dá autoridade para falar de Biologia. Mas muita da “verdade alternativa” hoje em dia vem daí. “Hoje pessoas que nunca leram um livro sobre um assunto acham a sua opinião equivalente à de um cientista que andou a vida a estudá-lo”
Recently I noticed someone complaining some photography Youtubers are bad photographers. What’s the problem with that?! I’m watching their videos, not buying their prints or photo books. I do follow some that I don’t find really talented in their photos, but that do create good photography content.
Todo este filme à volta do livro que o Passos apresentou é mais uma estratégia para se lhes apontar o dedo e chamar “fachos”, não é? Porque é uma armadilha que se tem que começar a evitar, se se está preocupado com com as famílias então é falar das coisas que realmente as afligem, e não uma ideologia que nem sabem explicar.
If you follow me on Instagram you might have noticed that, in the last year or so, there hasn’t been a lots of posts outside travel updates or some picks of that day’s photo walk. Although I like to avoid that my feed becomes too tidy and planned, it’s nice to share some things that aren’t as much for that moment in time as the rest. Not only I’m awful in processing my archive, but the small part that actually gets worked on isn’t being put out there at all. Let’s try to invert that trend, fingers crossed…
I don’t like to feel sorry about the photos I don’t take, because it’s so often that I see a pretty light or a neat little scene that I can’t allow myself to go down that rabbit hole, but also because the beauty of photography is that some photos are meant to be taken. But sometimes you’re just walking out from a shop, and face a stylish elderly lady, in full pink mode from sunglasses to hat, and thinking I should’ve the camera that was hanging on my neck fully ready in my hands to take that shot! Like yesterday… Regardless that that camera’s battery was already dead…
Ainda a propósito destas sensações que o Ricardo Costa fala: há dias alguém que certamente se achava “imigrante de bem” dizia-me que Portugal tinha de pôr ordem na imigração por não tinha gostado de ver homens de turbante… …e africanos também…
Domingo a terminar em “beleza”, o mote foi a manifestação de hoje no Brasil. Uma conversa acesa com alguém a tender para o bolsominion, mas que mora cá, sobre a imigração em Portugal. A conversa teve direito aos chavões comuns, desde “eu não sou racista, mas…” a “eu até tenho um amigo preto”, mas há uma frase que me ficou na memória:
“Só uma revolução, só uma pessoa com muita firmeza para melhorar isso.”
Qual é este fascínio de muita gente numa figura messiânica, num salvador para resolver os nossos problems? Não é necessariamente um problema de esquerda ou direita, nem de se uma pessoa é religiosa ou não (se bem que neste caso…), que hoje em dia encontrarmos dogmas em tantos lados, mas faz-me pensar que é por isto que ainda vamos tendo ditadores e que não podemos baixar a guarda…
“It turns us into the worst version of ourselves while convincing us that we’re at our best.” Despite travelling I’ve started to grow a kind of love/hate relationship with it, and this article kind hits the nail on many of my dilemmas. At some point I thought that travel makes us more tolerant, by having a wider perspective and experience other realities, and while that’s not wrong it isn’t as straightforward as I once believed. Often is more self-centred that people like to say (and I’m including myself in it…), both for the one who travelled or those back home: the questions usually are more in the “what have you done?” than the “what’s it like?”, and I don’t really like love talking about myself. The Case Against Travel - www.newyorker.com/culture/t…
In the latest video of Framelines (https://youtu.be/Sd41x2vp0fM), Josh Edgoose goes on a small tangent from the main topic: lenses should use the full-frame equivalent focal length, not the real focal length.
Why should the full-frame equivalent be the base reference? I understand the conventions and all that, but feels weird to put a focal that’s not the actual focal length, and, more important, it gives the sense that full-frame somehow is the “right one”, and the others orbit around it, which for me isn’t the case (all sensor sizes have their place, from tiny smartphone sensors to large format).
If it’s to get an universal measurement, then I’d rather jump head first to thinking in lenses in terms of field of view angle, and not focal length, something I’d loved lens makers displayed more prominently.