Malta Photo Blog

Old Pool

2012-01-25T00:06:00.000+01:00

The streets of Sliema

2012-01-21T18:46:00.000+01:00

Photos of the Year 2011

2012-01-15T21:57:00.000+01:00

Year 2011 is over. What were the best photographs in the last year? Newspapers, magazines and press agencies have their own rankings. Take a look and enjoy. Some fantastic shoots there.

There are probably much more rankings out there. If you find anything interesting just share in comments.

Hola Madrid - part 3

2012-01-11T22:25:00.000+01:00

Few more shots from Madrid. Just black and white this time.

Hola Madrid - part 2

2012-01-07T20:44:00.000+01:00

Reina Sofia museum. Amazing inside and outside.

Facebook photography

2012-01-07T13:18:00.001+01:00

Seriously? ;-)

Hola Madrid - part 1

2012-01-04T19:51:00.000+01:00

¡Hola! Photos from Madrid open the 2012 for my blog. For the start some various ones, both color and black&white. There's more to come!

Happy New Year!

Please click on the first image for better view :)

Breaking news

2011-12-27T14:03:00.001+01:00

Few things for today but unfortunately no new photos.

If you visit photocrumble blog more than once a week you probably noticed some changes in the top navigation. Now you can access my photo projects and events I’ve been to really easy. So take a look!And don’t forget about photography movies… some really good ones already and this section will definitely be growing.

I’m going to Madrid for the New Yea’s Eve so hopefully I’ll bring back some decent shots :)

This year I was a really good boy so Santa brought me a “camera voucher”. It’s going to be a small compact camera to carry it everywhere. I’m reading and looking what’s there on the market at the moment so I’ll blog a post or two when I decide.

The last but not least… finally I started to postprocess shots of quite a big, Malta related project. I hope to publish it no later than a mid January so stay tuned :)

Merry Christmas!

2011-12-23T15:40:00.001+01:00

2011-12-18T14:28:00.002+01:00

Ice Skating in Malta?

2011-12-17T18:14:00.002+01:00

Why not :)

The Bang Bang Club

2011-12-16T23:34:00.000+01:00

Another very good photography movie. Based on the true events tells a story about four war photographers: Ken Oosterbroek, Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter and Joao Silva.

Canon vs Nikon

2011-12-14T21:33:00.000+01:00

Funny stuff :)

Photocrumble on Twitter!

2011-12-13T23:21:00.000+01:00

Well, it's definitely a news of the day. I've never been a big Twitter fan but I'll give it a try. I'll post there something short from time to time so follow me to be notified about every photocrumble blog post. Spread the word :)

Simple things vol 4

2011-12-10T19:54:00.001+01:00

Tour De Malta

2011-11-28T22:57:00.001+01:00

Simple things vol 3

2011-11-27T19:51:00.001+01:00

Bmx

2011-11-17T23:36:00.001+01:00

Most expensive photographs ever sold

2011-11-15T23:47:00.000+01:00

#1 Andreas Gursky - Rhein II (1999)
$4,338,500, November 8, 2011

#2 Cindy Sherman - Untitled #96 (1981)
$3,890,500, May 2011

#3 Richard Prince - "Untitled (Cowboy)" (c.2001–2002)
$3,401,000, November 14, 2007

#4 Andreas Gursky - 99 Cent II Diptychon (2001)
$3,346,456, February 2007 (second print sold for $2.48 million and a third print sold for $2.25 million)

#5 Edward Steichen - The Pond-Moonlight (1904)
$2,928,000, February 2006

#6 Unknown photographer - Billy the Kid (1879–80), tintype portrait
$2,300,000, June 2011

#7 Dmitry Medvedev - Kremlin of Tobolsk (2009)
$1,750,000, January 2010

#8 Edward Weston - Nude (1925)
$1,609,000, April 2008

#9 Alfred Stieglitz - Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands) (1919)
$1,470,000, February 2006

#10 Alfred Stieglitz - Georgia O'Keeffe Nude (1919)
$1,360,000, February 2006

Exit Through The Gift Shop

2011-11-15T12:45:00.001+01:00

Not really a photography related movie but it's a must see! Let me know what question you asked yourself after watching. Enjoy.

Runners

2011-11-09T23:19:00.000+01:00

War Photographer

2011-11-07T23:40:00.000+01:00

Deep, touching, electrifying...

Simple things vol 2

2011-10-07T22:46:00.000+02:00

Concert kids

2011-10-04T13:41:00.000+02:00

Graffiti girl

2011-10-03T13:02:00.001+02:00

The 360 Project

2011-09-30T13:12:00.000+02:00

Quite amazing :)

And behind the scenes

Malta International Airshow - Part 2

2011-09-26T22:13:00.000+02:00

Photos from Malta International Airshow 2011

Malta International Airshow - Part 1

2011-09-25T22:54:00.000+02:00

Photos from Malta International Airshow 2011

Endless sea

2011-09-21T21:23:00.001+02:00

Kids curiosity

2011-09-18T23:39:00.001+02:00

Simple things

2011-09-17T01:23:00.000+02:00

2011-09-16T13:17:00.000+02:00

Nikon D3100 Red

2011-09-08T20:34:00.000+02:00

Nikon just announced its entry level model D3100 in... red.

Mhm interesting but I'm afraid that it won't match my purse so I played in a Photoshop a bit and created few other versions. Which one would you choose? :-)

Gone fishin'

2011-09-04T21:52:00.001+02:00

And as a bonus panoramic view of Valletta :) Click the photo below to enlarge

And the festa goes on...

2011-08-30T13:24:00.000+02:00

Yes, I got a fisheye

2011-08-28T15:18:00.002+02:00

Samyang 8mm F3.5 is a really good, affordable fisheye lens for those who want to play a bit, see the world at a different perspective and not spend too much money at the same time. I’m not going to write a long review (you can find some online). Just some few subjective things what I do and don’t like.

First of all just click here to see detailed specification on dpreview.com

The good

Great overall price to quality comparison. It costs just aprox. 230 euro (purchased in Poland) when Nikkor AF 10.5mm f/2.8 is around 700.
Really nice contrast and colors
Sharp at f/5.6 – f/16
Great built quality
Small in size and not too heavy (435g)
Small vignette

The bad

There’s no f/4.0, just f/3.5 and f/5.6
It’s not possible to attach any filters
Not too sharp at f/3.5 but really good at f/5.6 – f/16
No autofocus (not such a big problem in fisheye type lenses but would be nice to have it)

Sample Samyang 8mm F3.5 photos

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens

2011-08-23T09:30:00.000+02:00

Another photographic movie. This time the documentary about one of the most famous photographers of our times - Annie Leibovitz.

Photo Friday - Curvature

2011-08-20T16:32:00.001+02:00

I just discovered a Photo Friday website and going to take part from time to time :)

About Photo Friday

Each week Photo Friday posts a photo assignment. Your mission is the creative interpretation of the week's theme. When you're done, post the picture you took to your website and submit your link to Photo Friday.

Photo Friday is about challenging our participants to be original and creative within the constraints of the week's theme. It's not a competition. Anyone with a camera and a place on the internet to post pictures can participate.

more at: http://www.photofriday.com

Reggae night

2011-08-16T22:12:00.000+02:00

International Music Festival, Birkirkara Malta 2011
Bob Markley Tribute Band

Tough tourists live

2011-08-14T00:59:00.000+02:00

Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

2011-08-11T23:04:00.003+02:00

Few days ago I watched a photography related movie "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus" and I have to say I really enjoyed that so I highly recommend it to everyone.

Trailer below

If you're interested, read a bit more about Diane Arbus

Also some changes on my blog. I decided to remove links section... I don't update it at all and nobody visits it anyway. I'm going to keep links on the right hand side though so if you want to make a trade just let me know.

As you can see I also added a new section called "Movies about photography". It's going to be a nice (and long I hope) list of movies related to photography. I'm going to add movies one by one and only the ones I've seen myself.
For now there's a great document "The Genius of Photography", "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus" mentioned above and Blow-up which I saw couple of years ago. More to come :)

Maltese Festa - Fireworks

2011-08-07T20:10:00.000+02:00

Maltese Festa - Pure fun

2011-08-03T22:36:00.005+02:00

It's not over yet!

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Festa, Sliema Malta, 31/07/2011

Maltese Festa - Procession

2011-08-02T22:06:00.002+02:00

To be continued :)

Btw, do you like the bigger dimensions of photos?

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Festa, Sliema Malta, 31/07/2011

Summer Wine Festival

2011-07-10T20:32:00.001+02:00

Marsovin Summer Wine Festival, Valletta Malta 2011

2011-06-27T23:33:00.000+02:00

On the boat

2011-06-07T20:51:00.000+02:00

Padlook

2011-06-02T21:06:00.002+02:00

People

2011-05-30T21:39:00.000+02:00

Night shots

2011-05-27T22:32:00.000+02:00

2011-05-24T22:31:00.000+02:00

The Genius of Photography

2011-05-21T22:56:00.000+02:00

I just started to watch a really great BBC series called "The Genius of Photography". To encourage you a bit take a look at short description from the BBC websites.

In the course of our 170 year relationship, photography has delighted us, served us, moved us, outraged us and occasionally disappointed us. But mainly, it has intrigued us by showing the secret strangeness that lies beneath the world of appearances. And that is photography's true genius.

Follow the story of photography in BBC Four's six-part series 'The Genius of Photography'. See some of the most famous photographs ever taken and find out more about what made them so very special.

All episodes can be found on Youtube :-)

Marsaxlokk

2011-05-16T22:22:00.000+02:00

Marsaxlokk is a small, picturesque fishing village in the south-east part of Malta. Despite of hundreds of tourists it kept its soul and unique atmosphere.

Marsaxlokk photos, Malta 2011

Chilling out

2011-05-15T00:41:00.000+02:00

Behance

2011-05-13T21:24:00.000+02:00

No new photos today... it's Friday the 13th so everybody knows that it's a bad luck to post new photos on this day! ;-)
Just to let you know that I've just created my Behance Account. Hopefully it won't be cursed from now on ;-) I'm going to upload some bigger photo projects there and turn it into some kind of portfolio. So far I uploaded one of my favourite series - Tokyo Fish Market.

Anyway just click in the button below :)

Day to day life

2011-05-08T23:20:00.000+02:00

Lone man walking

2011-05-03T22:01:00.000+02:00

Malta international fireworks festival

2011-04-30T22:31:00.004+02:00

Bad spot, no tripod and no pint of beer either but I managed to take few decent photos from Malta international fireworks festival. Fireworks are extremely popular here in Mata so next time will be much better :)

I just noticed that's my post number 100! So the fireworks shoots fit just perfect!

Malta international fireworks festival photos, Malta 2011

Malta street shoots

2011-04-29T13:40:00.000+02:00

Maltese people

2011-04-23T22:40:00.000+02:00

Maltese animals

2011-04-18T21:21:00.000+02:00

Find a monster :-)

2011-04-14T22:17:00.001+02:00

Summer is coming...

2011-04-12T22:36:00.000+02:00

First Malta shoots

2011-04-10T21:39:00.000+02:00

Last Dublin shoots

2011-04-08T17:44:00.000+02:00

Meanwhile in the park...

2011-04-06T00:49:00.001+02:00

The Stolen Scream

2011-04-01T16:31:00.000+02:00

Photo Fest Ireland 2011

2011-03-30T14:17:00.000+02:00

Seems like a great event but unfortunately I can't make it :(

Here's more info.

Vivian Maier - street photographer and nanny

2011-03-29T14:49:00.002+02:00

Really amazing story... I'm still waiting to be discovered too! :)

You can find some of Vivian Maier photos on John Maloof's blog

This and that

2011-03-27T21:32:00.000+02:00

So Irish

2011-03-23T00:36:00.000+01:00

Bye, bye Dublin...

2011-03-18T16:51:00.005+01:00

...welcome Malta!

Source: http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/malta-guide/
Photograph by Hugh Sitton/Getty Images

Yes, I haven't been blogging for a longer while but I've been busy with my big move. In aprox. 3 weeks I'm leaving Dublin and moving to sunny Malta. I had a great time in Ireland but it's time for something new! Hopefully I'll post few more times from Dublin streets but from mid April only sunsets, beaches, yachts and harbor photos... ;-)

Japanese leftovers vol 1

2011-02-15T09:10:00.000+01:00

Actually one of my favourite pics from Japan.

2011-02-10T23:27:00.000+01:00

No worries!

2011-02-06T22:35:00.000+01:00

Vicky Pollard?

2011-02-04T22:13:00.000+01:00

And for those who don't know who Vicky Pollard is...

Dublin street photography

2011-02-03T22:21:00.000+01:00

Long time no see... no excuses!

UBL BBoy League

2011-01-16T01:20:00.002+01:00

If you want to tag yourself on facebook just click here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2060620&id=1563364101

Girls

2011-01-10T00:27:00.001+01:00

Amsterdam

2011-01-08T17:04:00.000+01:00

Sin City

2011-01-04T22:10:00.000+01:00

Few more photos from New Year Eve in Amsterdam coming soon...

Photoshop rap

2010-12-29T03:44:00.000+01:00

Check out this video... really good stuff :-)))
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1944668

Christmas leftovers

2010-12-27T22:16:00.000+01:00

Irish winter

2010-12-26T19:30:00.000+01:00

Very lazy Christmas for me but this is what I need :) And some photos from Japan are still waiting in a queue!

Christmas is coming...

2010-12-18T13:36:00.000+01:00

Dublin streets

2010-12-15T23:49:00.000+01:00

Sky is the limit

2010-12-13T23:04:00.000+01:00

Adobe CS6

2010-12-10T12:20:00.000+01:00

That's good one :-)
Found on gangerdesign.com

Funny People

2010-12-07T22:56:00.001+01:00

How to quickly change a lens

2010-12-07T15:06:00.000+01:00

I have to say I'm not the fastest man on the planet so I did some search and found few good videos. Take a look yourself.

Which technique is the best in your opinion? Or perhaps you know the better way?

Nikon D7000 review

2010-12-07T00:13:00.001+01:00

Just a quick one today to let you know that Nikon D7000 reviews have been published.
In English: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond7000/
In Polish: http://www.fotopolis.pl/index.php?n=11943

Night Japan in black and white

2010-12-04T00:26:00.000+01:00

Sort, select and archive your photos

2010-12-03T00:28:00.003+01:00

If you take photos you probably keep plenty of them on your local hard drive. Can you imagine your hdd breaking down or catching a really bad virus and loosing your all images? I can’t. It’s the worst nightmare ever! Below I’ll share with you my idea how to sort, select and archive your “Preciousss”. I’m not saying it’s the best way but good enough for me. Feel free to steal it for yourself if you find it useful.

First I create a folder named properly. Let’s say “Dublin by Night”
Then I transfer all photos I’ve taken to my folder. Personally I use Adobe Bridge.
First look at all images. I delete really bad ones and doubles I won’t need for sure.
I change files names to “name_001”. It’s really easy in Bridge, just use Batch Rename tool.
When all these are done I do a backup on my external hard drive.
After that, I burn all photos on a DVD.
When I’m sure all above is done, I format memory card on my camera.
Then I go back to my main hard drive and start choosing my very best photos. I copy them to the subfolder named let’s say “Best”.
Now it’s time for post-processing.
Last step is exporting final photos to JPGs and saving them in proper subfolders like “Blog”, “Print” or whatever I need.

Seems like a lot of work, but in fact it’s not. And better be safe than sorry.

Fish market update

2010-12-02T00:18:00.000+01:00

Few more photos of my favourite set from Japan - Tokyo Fish Market :) If you missed previous pics, just go directly to my flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/photocrumble/sets/72157625509866124/

My new photo passion - Penguins :-)

2010-11-30T22:44:00.000+01:00

These little fellas live in Osaka Oceanarium :-)

Photo update! I already selected my best pics from Japan so more photos really really soon. Penguins above are the first part.

Leaving Tokyo, leaving Japan

2010-11-20T12:30:00.000+01:00

It's been fantastic two weeks but tomorrow I'm flying back to Dublin...

The good thing is I took loads of photos so it's not over with blogging. Be prepared for more shots in the remaining weeks of the year :-)

Underground

2010-11-19T14:02:00.000+01:00

Tokyo metro is huge and the map may look scary but it's the easiest and the fastest way to travel around the city.

oh, and few photos :)

Geisha Original

2010-11-17T13:09:00.002+01:00

It's really difficult to capture Geisha on Japanese streets these days...

...but I managed to do so :)

Osaka streets

2010-11-16T13:22:00.001+01:00

Japanese nature

2010-11-15T14:23:00.001+01:00