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Category Archives: technique
Who Needs A Real Camera…?
So this week I purchased the newly released iPhone 11 Pro. I bought an iPhone XR about a year ago, together with Moment telephoto and wide angle supplementary lenses, and although I thought the quality of images from this combo … Continue reading
Partial Colour Images…
Standing near Shrewsbury Abbey a few weeks ago to take a photo of the Victorian letterbox, I spotted a guy walking towards me with a red jacket and cap, and I could see that his red outfit, the red letterbox … Continue reading
Posted in gear, locations, photos, technique
Tagged colour, creativity, filters, lightroom, partial colour, post box, red, shrewsbury, telephone
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From Dawn to Dusk (2)…
I’ve been taking at least one photo a day so far this year for my 365 project, but these have nearly all been iPhone shots. This morning started off pretty cold and frosty, and although I took the Sony A7iii … Continue reading
Posted in gear, locations, photos, technique
Tagged a7iii, filters, iphone, locations, market drayton, peatswood, photography, roaches, sony, staffordshire, sunset
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Pen-F does Keystone Compensation
Funny isn’t it, how our brain interprets what we see, but a photograph needs some help? When we look upwards at a tall building, the top is further away than the bottom, so appears smaller, but our brain compensates for … Continue reading
Posted in gear, technique
Tagged architecture, compensation, correction, feature set, jpg, keystone, keystone compensation, lightroom, olympus, OM-D, pen-f, raw
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Olympus does Motor Sport….
Although I have some reservations about using my Olympus Micro-Four Thirds (MFT) cameras for landscapes, one area where they come into their own is fast action photography like motor sports. The sensor on all MFT cameras is just one quarter … Continue reading
Posted in gear, photos, technique
Tagged 300mm, 40-150mm, cheshire, classic cars, e-m1ii, mft, micro four-thirds, motor racing, olympus, olympusuk, oulton park, photography, pro capture, sport
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Coast and City…
Last week I had the opportunity to spend a few spare hours in the Liverpool area, so decided to check out the lighthouse at Perch Rock, New Brighton. This lighthouse has stood at the mouth of the River Mersey since … Continue reading
Posted in locations, personal, photos, technique
Tagged albert dock, e-m1ii, filters, lighthouse, liverpool, long exposure, maritime, museum, new brighton, olympus, olympusuk, perch rock, tate
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Time for a fresh beginning…?
‘When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial clichés’ – Edward Weston In the almost 60 years since … Continue reading
Posted in gear, locations, personal, technique, workshops
Tagged analogue, beginning, creativity, digital, landscape, obsession, photography, vision, workshops
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No Tripod Allowed
A combination of illness and family commitments means my Fuji cameras haven’t seen much action over the last month or two, but a couple of weeks ago I was booked on a Light and Land ‘Impressions of London’ workshop with Valda … Continue reading
Posted in gear, locations, photos, technique
Tagged 50-140mm, camera, camera movement, doug chinnery, Fuji, fujifilm, ICM, impressions, light & land, lightandland, london, valda bailey, x-t1, X-T10, zoom, zoom pull
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The best ‘street’ combo yet?
All photographers have their favourite cameras, and to be fair, their allegiance will often change over time. Sometimes its a dissatisfaction or a bad experience with a particular model; sometimes its a case of ‘the grass is greener on the … Continue reading
Posted in gear, photos, technique, Uncategorized
Tagged 35mm, candid, france, fujifilm, fujiholics, haut-garonne, lightroom, Matt Hart, mono, revel, silver efex, street, streetlife, X-T10
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Landscape Lessons….
A few tips and suggestions from my ‘day out’ with a pro photographer on Skye.