When I’m not taking pictures* I like geocaching. For those who don’t know what that is, you can think of it as a high-tech outdoor treasure hunt played with hand-held GPS units (or smartphones). Someone hides a container at a specified location, you get the co-ordinates from the geocaching website, and then you use your…
I’m in a particularly busy, and varied, time at the moment. For a professional photographer and photographic trainer that’s just great. Perhaps it’s something to do with the run up to Christmas, but everything is happening at once. I ran my “The Creative Eye” course last weekend, and I have another one this weekend. Last week’s…
As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, “there are times when you just can’t get everything in because your camera’s lens isn’t wide enough, or you just can’t get far enough away”. Under these circumstances you need to either; walk away and say, “It can’t be done”, or you can turn a problem into a…
I’ve been asked to do a talk, to a local photographic club, about creative photography using digital compact cameras. Whilst I was preparing the talk, I realised something. It was that lots of people have a digital compact camera, but call it something else; a mobile phone. To be sure of covering all possible questions in my talk, I thought I’d try…
I love filling the frame in my portrait images. I reckon that as I’ve paid for all those pixels I might as well use them all. However, there are times when you get a better image by leaving empty space in the frame. Take this studio portrait of a child for example. I really liked the expression on…
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