Usually I don’t mind it so much if a planned photographing session doesn’t produce usable results because I generally learn something in the process; but not always.
I have just spent a very frustrating day trying to photograph a glass. The book Light: Science & Magic has a very good chapter on how to light glass. [...]
On the 19th March, 2010, a couple of friends and I went to Phillip Island for a day out at the classic car races.
Last year I was disappointed with the photos I took, so this year I was determined to do better. Last year I came home with a lot of blurry photos, so concentrating [...]
Just before Christmas I read two blog posts on the same day. They were both about photography, by different photographers coming from different perspectives. But both posts made the same point: when trying to attract the attention of a potential client, or just people who might be interested in your work, less is more.
Over at [...]
A recurring theme on many photography forums is the issue, “my photos look like crap when I upload them to a web site, what’s wrong”.
Basically, the problem is colour spaces and how they are interpreted by different devices. There is a mass of information about colour spaces on the web, not all of it useful, [...]
Shortly after joining Ipernity, I came across a very talented photographer from Iceland: Ragnheidur.
Her image collection included stunning images of the Icelandic scenery, mountains, desolate coastline, windswept plains. The images were often dark and made with very long exposures, giving them an eerie almost ghostly feel.
Frankly I was extremely jealous of her talent, her images [...]
Over on The Online Photographer, Mike Johnston has a post about the new Olympus E-620 DSLR. Mike has some interesting, and not entirely serious, things to say about some of its more interesting features.
I enjoyed his comments and assessment of the ‘art filters’ and agreed with his opinions; after all we would all like Creativity [...]