As promised in my last post, this update is about a Photobooth that I set up for my daughter’s 21st Party, which worked really well and everyone had fun with. So what do you need to run the Photobooth? The basic items that you need are obviously a camera plus a remote trigger (so people can operate…
I was pointed to this link on BoredPanda recently that highlighted some clever photographic trickery, so I thought I’d use this as an excuse to share a few of mine; “Flushed with success” is a simple two image composite. We needed to replace the old toilet seat that was broken so after I’d removed (and…
I’m posting this ahead of time to give you the chance to get involved with World Cyanotype Day 2016 on Saturday 24th September. According to Wikipedia; Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost process to produce copies of drawings, referred to…
Today I want to give a shout-out to another of my favourite photography podcasts “Teabreak Tog”. It is run by Scottish photographer Julie Christie and is aimed mainly at beginners and intermediates. As a former teacher, Julie is great at imparting knowledge in a clear and simple way and she has a really easy-going style….
It’s been another busy week outside of photography so I’ve not got very far with reading my food photography books, but what I have managed to do is get through about two-thirds of my Lighting for Product Photography book. And I have to say it’s a really good reference. The initial pages talk about general…
Following on from the square crop topic last week, I wanted to talk a bit more about cropping and aspect ratio in photographs. Firstly, there are a few “rules” to know. I’ve put in the inverted commas because there are no real rules in photography only guidelines. A few of these that relate to cropping…
Following on from Sunday’s post on interiors, and also my recent travails in Food photography I wanted to touch briefly on product photography today. It’s something I’ll come back to in more detail at a later date, this is just to get you started; Product photography is an area of photography that some people love and…
