In the last couple of posts I’ve outlined why I like Flickr and which groups I belong to. Today I want to give a few bits of advice on using Flickr, the etiquette and what to avoid. Basics Firstly some obvious things, but you’d be amazed how many people forget; Be nice, be honest, be constructive,…
One thing I’ve learned from the food photography course is that a decent food shot takes time and planning. Trying to take pictures of cooking (the theme for the week) whilst actually cooking is therefore never going to yield a masterpiece. So this week I settled for a simple collage of food prepared on my…
The social side of Flickr is one of the biggest benefits of being a member. The community is massive, and so you’re sure to find a group that caters to your particular niche. There are groups for specific locations, specific cameras, specific software, specific demographics of people (old, young, male, female etc.) then some quirky…
I joined Flickr back in 2008 but didn’t really start posting pictures regularly until 2011, since then I’ve been quite active on the site posting over 1800 photos and having over 500,000 views to date. I like Flickr for several reasons; Most photographers want their work to be seen and I’m no different. Although I…
The theme for Week 49 in the 52 Weeks Project was Square Format – a nice and open theme that everyone can easily accomplish. You can view the gallery of entries here. What was interesting was that some shots looked better than others in this format. The reason why some shots were better than others…
So far on my blog journey I’ve only written about one famous photographer (David Hobby). So today I thought I’d redress that imbalance a little and talk about one of the most iconic photographers of the 20th Century and someone whose photographs I love – Irving Penn. Back in February 2010 I was lucky enough…
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…
A quieter week this week on the photo front. The 52 Week Challenge was Interior design which unfortunately came a week too early to get the Chapman household Christmas decorations featured. Instead, my shot of the week was taken at the Norfolk Towers Hotel in London. Mrs C and I had a day trip to Brussels…
A couple of years ago our local town centre of Camberley decided to launch a bigger Christmas campaign to get people to come along and visit the shops and activities over the Christmas period. I’m good friends with one of the campaign team and he asked Vicky and me to go along and take some…
I’ve talked about some of the apps that I use for my mobile photography over the past few episodes including Pixlr, Snapseed, Vignette. Today want to talk about some the accessories that you might find useful; Selfie stick Firstly, let me make clear that I do not advocate the use of selfie sticks for the…
I managed to combine two challenges into one photo this week with the 52 Weeks theme of “My Day . . .” and an informal food challenge of “Coffee break” After finishing the 30 Days to Better Food Photography course, a few of the participants have set up a new Facebook group so we can…
In this next part of the series on mobile photography I want to talk about 3 more apps that I use. I’ve added a black outline to most shots in this post in WordPress so you can see the borders, the originals are on my Instagram feed. The original app that got me into smart phone…
This is Part three of my series looking at the mobile creative, you can find Part 1 and Part 2 linked. Today I want to explain why Snapseed is my current go-to app for processing pictures on my smartphone. Two separate photos of my grandparents processed in Snapseed, made into a collage on Pixlr. For…
Bokeh is the theme for the week in the 52 Weeks the 2015 Edition group. It’s a strange word that gets pronounced in many ways, I tend to pronounce it “boe-key” but others say “boe-ka” or “boe-kay”. Anyway, however you pronounce it, it comes from the Japanese word for blur or haze and Wikipedia define it…