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Photography comes in many flavours. Each flavour requires a different set of skills and some flavours even require different camera equipment to do it well. For example, wildlife photography may require a lot of patience, an in depth understanding of the subject and specialist equipment like big lenses, hides and thermos flasks. Formal portraiture may […]
Continue ReadingIt is often said that the best camera is the one you have with you, which is very true, and with mobile phone cameras giving you great control over your photos and the whole host of image editing apps you can get for your phone, why would you need anything else? Ok, so clearly a […]
Continue ReadingWhen I started this site I wrote a post about what ISO is and I stated that you should “always try and use the lowest sensitivity you can get away with”. At the time of writing, the sophistication of camera sensors meant that you would start to see noise at fairly low ISO settings so […]
Continue ReadingI am interested to see what brands of cameras you, my audience, use as it may help me with future articles and equipment reviews too, plus I’m just nosey.
Continue ReadingAdobe Lightroom 4 is my software of choice when I edit my images, although Lightroom 5 is looking pretty cool. I run it on a Mac and have two nice big monitors that have been colour calibrated to make sure I can get the best out of my photography. I have a fairly basic work […]
Continue ReadingAs you get into photography as a hobby, you soon realise that you have picked what can be a very expensive hobby. Unless you win the lottery, there is always going to be some camera equipment that you wish you could own and you dream of being able to own the latest and greatest camera […]
Continue ReadingAs a photographer, it’s important to keep pushing yourself to take photos frequently, especially as someone who is learning photography, there is no better way to learn. One way of doing this is to set yourself a project. I’ve mentioned a few ideas for projects in other articles, but this time I thought I’d share with […]
Continue ReadingA few years ago I was a member of a great camera club and enjoyed what I got out of it. Recently I’ve joined another camera club after moving to a new area and I went along to one of their competition nights. The camera club judge has a tough job. He or she has […]
Continue ReadingHappy New Year everyone! I hope you all had an enjoyable time. Apologies for the scary picture, I hope it hasn’t put you off your food. As new year is meant to be a time for new beginnings, resolutions and making positive decisions, it’s time to look at what you want to accomplish photographically in […]
Continue ReadingSomehow this year has flown by again and we are now in that period of Autumn/Winter where the days are shorter and it gets a bit cold out there. For photographers this poses several challenges, the first being to drag yourself out of bed and make the most of some glorious light that you get […]
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