Although the UK seems to have largely missed out on winter this year – especially in the South East where I’m from – other parts of the northern hemisphere have had their fair share of wintry weather so I thought I’d make this week a Throw Back Thursday to 2013 when we did have some…
Another nice open theme this week, literally, as the 52 Week theme for Week 4 was “Outdoor”. Sadly the weather in the UK had been a bit grey and dull of late, but on Thursday morning I noticed that it was going to be a clear night so I decided to take my 5D MKII…
Last week as a a really good week photo-wise. Firstly, I visited The Photographic Angle exhibition “4 Elements” in Camberley which included 4 of my pictures. This is the third time I’ve been featured by these people and it’s always nice to see your pictures in print in an exhibition space. This is me taking a…
For the 52 Week Group this week, the theme was Out of Focus so I posted this shot of the topiary conifers at work, taken with my infra-red camera. I also had a couple of pieces of good news about some of my other photos, but I’ll cover that in my next post. For today, I’ll…
I’ve recently taken a few pictures with my infrared converted Canon Powershot G10 so I thought I’d talk a bit about IR photography today. Taking IR pictures is possible with a regular DSLR using an IR filter on the end of your lens but it requires very long shutter speeds to achieve results. This…
Have managed to pick up the pace a bit with my photography over the past week or so. First challenge was Week 2 of 52 Weeks in 2016 with the theme of ‘Dark’ – set by me. Given that it’s winter in the northern hemisphere I figured this would be easy for many people, but…
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…
I didn’t post my usual Shot Of The Week yesterday, because I didn’t take anything worth posting! The theme for the first week of 52 Weeks 2016 was “New Beginnings” which I bagged right after New Year with this screenshot from my phone (I need to point out that the balloon photo is not mine,…
OK, so my plan was to write a couple of posts about the new kit I got at Christmas, but due to an error on my part I’ll only be writing one. The reason for this is that the Yongnuo remote flash trigger YN-E3-RT and receivers YN-E3-RX, don’t work fully with my two flashes –…
I know I’ve blogged about my favourite groups on Flickr already, but I wanted to give one last plug to the 116 Pictures in 2016 group as there’s still time to join up and take part. As the weather has been bad in the UK I’ve only got 1 in the bag for this year “Super furry animals”. …
Another year over, so I thought I’d recap a few highs and lows from 2015 and look ahead to 2016. My best shot by Flickr stats is this shot of a burger, taken at a pub near Rochester in Kent back in the spring. Taken on my Samsung phone and processed with Pixlr – proves…
Quick one today, just to say that I hope you all had a great Christmas and Santa brought you all the pressies you were hoping for. The theme for Week 52 of 2015 was “Festive” so here are a few shots from the last few days of festive fun at chez Chapman. On Thursday I’ll…
The theme this week was ‘panning’ which, as you probably know, is the technique of following a moving subject while taking a shot so as to keep the subject in sharp focus. Most of the time, this results in a blurred background due to the camera movement and gives the impression of motion. I had…
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…