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Mobile Creative Part 5 – accessories

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…

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Shot of the week

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…

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Mobile Creative Part 4

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…

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Snapseed app for smartphones

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…

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Shot of the Week

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…

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Christmas Gift Ideas

From Tuesday 17th and for the following 10 days I will be posting some gift ideas that you might like to take a look at – either for yourself or for the photographer in your life. Check the new set of pages in the left hand menu bar which will start to appear from tomorrow (Tuesday…

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Shot of the Week

It’s been another good week on the food photography course, and I managed to combine a foodie photo with the 52 Week challenge photo this week which was “Uniform” and set by me – here’s the shot again in case you missed it in my last post. I chose Uniform as the period covered Remembrance…

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Food Photography Week 3

Into the third week of the food photography course (click link in left hand side bar to find out more) and we’ve moved on from photographic skills like depth of field and white balance and got into more of the styling and detailing aspects. First challenge for me this week was that I don’t have…

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Pixlr app for smartphones

This is the second part of my series on the Mobile Creative, here’s the first if you missed it. Pixlr is a great app for simple processing of photos and also for getting more creative. Until recently it was my go-to app of choice, and still is for the more creative shots. The first thing…

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Shot of the Week

With Halloween last weekend it was no surprise that the 52 Week theme for the week was something spooky, with Graveyard! This was taken as I described in my last post on White Balance. I popped over to the cemetery that is close to where I work on Wednesday lunchtime. After a few simple snaps,…

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TBT – October 2012

For throwback Thursday for October (couple of days late, I know), I’m going back to 2012 when we decided to go away for the autumn half term to Sorrento in Italy. Sorrento is famous for its olives, lemons and Limoncello liquer. It is also a great location if you want to visit Pompeii (below) or…

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Food Photography Week 2

Half way through the 30 days to better food photography course now and it’s been another really enlightening week, why? Because we’ve dealt quite a bit with lighting. Looking at the direction of light, the use of reflectors and other modifiers and also playing around with white balance. All this while trying to stick to…

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Shot of the Week

Theme for the week this week was Black Background so I thought I’d combine it with part of the food photography course that I’m doing at the moment. Black background is something that most people with a bit of control of their camera can achieve – and also something that you’ll never achieve if you…

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