I have a second piece published in Landscape Photography Magazine. This time it is based on one of my favorite hangups; photographic rules: Okay, let’s just admit it, I do have a bee in my bonnet. Well, to be fair and honest, the bonnet’s so full of them It would be difficult to squeeze another one in. But, the one… Read more »
I got some shots back from My picture being exhibited at the Blank Wall Gallery in Athens (http://www.blankwallgallery.com/)
I have one of my pictures being exhibited at the Blank Wall Gallery in Athens in their International Photographers Fine Art Group Exhibition between the 2nd and 15th February 2018. It was taken at the same time as the panorama which I use in the Blog and the landing page of the website. It was one of those perfect unplanned moments,… Read more »
Well to me its a place where I post up miscellaneous shots and proof of concept shots to gain some insight into their worth. I never really post up anything I consider finished work. Why this, well I genuinely need some neutral other person insight into their actual worth. Okay, I know what technically makes a good photo, and I… Read more »
Well Getting published is always great thing, whither its just on your craft as a writer or on your skill as a photographer. This time its is a blend of both. In Landscape Photography Magazine’s October 2017 edition I have a piece titled “Who Needs Sharpness?” and looks at my project using a Petzval Projection lens to capture images of the… Read more »
Well lets just say Iceland is on occasion jaw-dropping, but expensive. It is on the level of expensive that when on the return budget airline and you see the in-flight catering then you think “good grief that’s cheep”… But is it worth it, well yes. Essentially because it is so different to anything else I have seen. But, if it… Read more »
There are a few ways to make effective use of projection lenses on DSLRs and system compacts, the simple and the complex. I’m somewhere in-between. My favourite interchangeable method is to make use of a relatively cheap Chinese M42x1mm to M52x0.75mm focussing helicoid, with the M42 end going into a AF confirming adapter for the camera. At the M52 end… Read more »
If ever I was going to write a big thick book about photography it would be about composition, and if I was going to write a really slim one it would be about composition. I think I first said that over thirty years ago and it was in a response to someone trying to explaining the thirds rule to an… Read more »
It is fair to say there is an awful lot of nonsense talked about bubbly bokeh, so I think I’ll just add to it… This is not some mystical preserve of Meyer Trioplan lenses, nor is it just limited to the preserve of triplet lenses, it is simply a characteristic where the lens gets the chance to reflect back in… Read more »
Where a panorama is good is where you take a wide sweep of around 180 degrees (or more) to convey an extreme letterbox of what is in front of you, capturing the full essence of what you wish to convey. The problem you have when you view becomes so wide angle is that you loose a lot of scale and… Read more »