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Olympus Passion Photography Magazine – October 2025!
Capturing Life in Shades of Grey
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Going Light – Micro Four-Thirds in Africa
My timing seems to be perfect. About 20 years ago my eyes started needing glasses. Along came really capable autofocus. Shortly after that, good slide film was getting expensive to shoot. Along came good digital. Last year, my shoulders were getting tired of hauling around big boy cameras and the…
Cameras and lenses for wedding photography
To be honest, cameras and lenses are just tools. But sometimes it can be interesting to check which tools you use on a regular basis. Looking at the 2016 photos in my Lightroom catalogue gives us some insights there. 70.000 photos shot in 2016 – mainly weddings – show clearly…
In Heidelberg with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 and the M-Zuiko 12-40mm 2.8 Pro
The Easter weekend was near and I decided to take a short break and visit my birth town. The last time I visited Heidelberg must have been more than ten years ago. My wonderful wife was not with me as she was visiting a friend abroad. Unfortunately the Easter weekend…
Apple Mac Mini M1 for photographers – A compact but powerful workstation
Hello! My name is Rikard Landberg (@landberg on Instagram), and I mostly shoot documentary projects. During the pandemic, most of my projects are on hold and instead, I have been photographing my family. I use an E-M1 MarkII with two lenses, 12mm f/2 and 17mm f/1.8. Enough about cameras. Now…
Olympus M.Zuiko 17mm f2.8 Lens At The Concert
Honestly I decided to buy my Olympus ZUIKO 17mm f2.8 after reading Eric Kim’s review of Olympus E-P2 on The Phoblographer. Kim’s first impressions – E-P2 + 17mm f2.8, one of the best “street combo” I ever tested in my professional photographic life – for me was enough to look…
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Multiple exposure photography is one of the most creative tools at your disposal—whether you’re shooting portraits filled with texture, landscapes that blend day and night, or motion stories in a single frame. With Olympus cameras offering powerful in-camera options, this guide will show you how to get started and experiment.
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In the four years of existence of Olympus Passion, we have done dozens of interviews, but this time we wanted you to be asking the questions. We launched this challenge for our Premium subscribers, who promptly sent an interesting series of highly relevant questions. This time, we have the honour…
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In 1980, Michael Orton developed one of the most popular post-processing techniques widely used by many landscape photographers today. Although the technique has evolved since it first appeared, the basic concept remains the same: applying a dreamy glow to an image. Michael Orton’s initial idea was to imitate watercolour paintings.…
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What is the best resolution to print or to use online? This is, perhaps, one of the most recurrent questions that constantly knocks on our door. When we start talking about size, we usually end up concluding that size doesn’t matter. But this is not always the case, as you…
Premium/ Shooting with your Olympus without a lens (well, almost…)
When I was still a Canon user I tried out several photographic techniques, some better known than others. Although my passion is landscape photography, I naturally tried one or the other different areas and put one or the other idea into practice. In this world of photography, the more you…
E-M5 family
There aren’t two Mona Lisas
Hello wonderful readers!First and foremost, I’d like to say that it is an honor to have been asked by the amazing folks of Olympus Passion to contribute to the magazine, thank you for liking my work and for this privilege. My name is Jorge Hurtado Rochal, I was born in a tiny little town called […]
Memories from the Present to the Future
Hello! First of all, I would like to thank Olympus Passion for giving me the chance to write for the…
Moving to Iceland – Where the whole journey began
My name is Katarzyna, but you can call me Kat. Like the animal, but with „K“. I was born in…
Altering course
Gidday! My name is John Pryke, a freelance photographer living in Brisbane, Australia. I have spent the last 37 years…
Visual Stories
Be Olympus, my friend
Already Bruce Lee knew with his famous saying, “Be water my friend”, what matters: Don’t be rigid, be adaptable. Like water that can adapt and become one with any environment. I was looking for that adaptability, and I found it with Olympus. A small system camera that I affectionately call…
Dog’s life through a lens
My name is Nina Kalkkinen. I am 31 years old and after having lived almost half of my life in Spain, I now live in my home country Finland, where I work part-time as a Finnish-Spanish translator while trying to build a small business as a fiber artist.My life pretty…
An eclectic world to experience and experiment
I am very lucky to live in this beautiful city of Barcelona, Spain. We enjoy a very mild and pleasant climate throughout the year, that allows me to be outdoors a lot, often with my dogs, which I really like! Here we have beach, mountains, culture & architecture at our…
Inspired by New Zealand Landscapes
How I began with Digital My first camera was the Olympus OM1, loaned by a friend when I was a university student. More than 30 years later, after a session of looking at old family prints and slides, my daughter asked why I no longer made pictures. Her question put…
Moments in time
The lake is quiet. My breath visible in the cool morning air. The mist swirls, moving silently over the water. As the first light of the day hits the trees, the muted greens bring colour to the landscape. The melody of the dawn chorus drifts over the rhythmic, gentle sound…
Perspective: It’s a Small Thing with a Big Difference
It sounds cliché to say, “it’s all a matter of perspective”, but in photography a slight change in your camera’s position can make a big difference to the overall look of your final image. Let me take you on a recent expedition to a local field to show you what…























