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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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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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The mobile creative

I’d love to know what the older generation of photographers make of today’s mobile digital world. Technology has come a long way from the days of film and darkrooms to reach a point where virtually everyone has a camera with them virtually all of the time, through their phone. The quality of these cameras is…

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Thought for Food

OK so I’m one week into my 30 Days to Better Food Photography course and I’m really enjoying it. What’s been great so far? Well firstly the Facebook community. There are loads of people all taking the course together and so each night a new batch of photos go up where people show their response…

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Shot of the Week

An exciting week this week as I started on a 30-day course to improve my food photography. I’ll cover the first week in more detail in my next post, but for today and my Shot of the Week (below) I want to talk a bit about High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography. The human eye is…

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Sunny Side Up

Quick post today about the “Sunny 16 Rule” . . . Another rule of thumb that is often quoted is the “Sunny 16” rule which says that on a sunny day and with your aperture at f/16 your shutter speed should be the reciprocal of your ISO. So 1/100 at ISO-100, 1/200 at ISO-200 etc….

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