I was due to write the next part of my photography analysis series this week but yesterday I listened to a really interesting podcast featuring a gentleman called Pat Pattison that was originally broadcast on a channel called The Candid Frame last summer – 6th July 2015 in fact. It seemed very pertinent to me at…
Had a busy week last week and didn’t manage to get much done in the way of photos – to the point that I didn’t complete the weekly theme of the 52 Week group which was Cover Party. I did however, take some infrared shots at a new small pond that I’ve recently discovered on…
HISTORY Photography has come a long way from the early days of sepia tinted images and cyanotypes which we are all familiar with to where anyone can print a colour photo on their home printer in seconds. Colour photography and film weren’t really common until the sixties and most people shot in black and white….
Last weekend I ran a review of my experience so far with the Xperia Z5 phone rather than my normal Shot of the Week. The theme for that week in my Flickr 52 Weeks group was “Tilt-Shift” and although I did include my entry in the post, I thought I would talk a bit about tilt-shift…
The ability to control Depth of Field (DoF), the extent of an image that is in sharp focus, is a key tool in a photographers toolbox. I explained quite a bit about DoF in this post so I won’t repeat much here except to reiterate that by controlling DoF you can determine what areas you want…
It’s been a few weeks since I got my new Sony Xperia Z5 phone, and as I have used it quite a lot in the last couple of weeks I thought I’d write a quick review in place of my normal Shot of the Week post. Basically I love it. Having been a Samsung user…
Having got your exposure correct, it is time to think about focus. The human eye is instinctively drawn to things that are in focus, and so it is normal that the most important part of the shot is in focus and any parts that are irrelevant or distracting in a scene are out of focus….
Theme for the week was Reflection which is a good choice as it’s something you can easily find, easily create and – if you think laterally – interpret more philosophically. In the end I settled for a simple reflection of me in the kitchen window. We have a number of spot lights in the kitchen…
Exposure is defined by Wiki as the amount of light per unit area reaching a photographic film or electronic image sensor, as determined by shutter speed, lens aperture and scene luminance. If too much light is absorbed, the image will be over exposed – usually characterised by areas of bright white, highlights or sky that…
Three images to show you this week, all shot with different cameras. The theme of the week was Sweet or Sour and when I spotted this bottle of Apple Sourz in the kitchen I knew this would be the shot. I tried a number of locations but couldn’t find a clean enough background in our…
Today I’m going to start a series of posts going into more detail about what makes a great photo. I did touch on this way back on 29 September and introduced what I think are the six fundamental aspects of a photo – five of them have a technical element and one is, perhaps, more subjective. Exposure…
As I mentioned last week, the 52 Weeks theme for this week was Winnie the Pooh. So I decided to try and do a portrait shoot with my two little WtP characters. Not easy as they are only 3cm tall, but I did buy some small LED lights on adjustable bendy wires recently (with food/…
Last week I wrote a piece about winter photography and, in particular, snow. But if you prefer something more exacting, then I would strongly recommend you take the time to investigate the work of Don Komarechka who is the best photographer of snowflakes in the world. (c) Don Komarechka He has a book available called…
The theme this week in the Flickr 52 Weeks 2016 group was Shadows. Which opened up the possibility of all sorts of creative interpretations. However, a busy week both in and out of work, coupled with a lack of sunshine for large parts of the week meant that in the end I settled on the…