Photography has been a passion since I first picked up a camera more than two and a half decades ago. I don’t shoot as often as I’d like these days, but this allows me to focus on personal projects rather than client work. I document some of those projects here. Of course, there’ll be the occasional review, because who doesn’t love camera gear?
Most people who use flash understand that your sync speed is the maximum shutter speed with which you can use flash. What people generally don’t know is why. “My camera goes all the way up to 1/8000th of a second, so why can’t I use flash past 1/250th?” Well, this is really all down to how…
My reply to the question posed in the title of this post is usually something along the lines of, “It depends. What type of baby?” Then the conversation tends to go one of three ways. The first two answers are the obvious ones. I either hear “a little boy” or, not surprisingly, “a little girl”. The third answer is…
Yesterday was spent out with a friend scouting a few of the locations I discovered last year but didn’t get to properly shoot at the time of year I wanted – the time when bluebells are out. Last year was a strange one, with the longer winter they arrived a couple of months later than expected….
So we recently held Lancaster Photographic Society‘s Annual Projected Image Competition, judged by Tillman Kleinhans. Congratulations to Ruth and Allan for getting colour and mono Image of the Year, respectively. My images are shown at 8:18, 15:46, 24:20 and 29:14, and linked below the video.
Curves are a pretty versatile and powerful feature of any image processing application when you know how to use them, especially if you want to try and automate parts of your workflow.
During my talk for Lancaster Photographic Society recently, I was asked a question that I’m also going to answer here. I’m paraphrasing, but it went something along the lines of… “Is getting the right exposure in camera really all that important? Can’t we just nudge it in Photoshop?” Before I start, I want to clarify…
I have been a member of Lancaster Photographic Society for about five years now, ever since my wife and I moved to Lancaster. Each week throughout autumn and winter we meet, and usually the photographers who come and offer presentations to us are detailing projects and genres that are very personal to them. They tell…
In photography, there are many items we would buy if only we could find a viable reason for putting down so much cash. First, for me, was the 70-200mm f/2.8VR. For years, I lusted after one, but didn’t really had a legitimate need for one that would justify dropping £1600+ until about four years ago.
I’ve talked about some of the pros & cons of the Eye-Fi card before, but on location these days, it’s something I find difficult to live without. It’s a luxury, not a necessity, but it does allow me to speed up productivity and waste less time on a location shoot wondering whether the image I…
There was one location at which I shot at quite a lot during 2013 (at least 20 times over the amazing few weeks of summer we had last year). It’s fairly close to Lancaster (about 10 miles out), and it looks absolutely gorgeous, but only up until about noon. During the morning, shooting upriver, the sun…
