I’m doing my first remote talk to a camera club soon. I’m using GoToMeeting for that one, but I’m happy to work with other conference systems, such as Zoom. I charge my usual fee, but there’s no travel costs, so your club could be anywhere in the country, or even further afield. Current talks: “Movement […]
Category Archives: Light Painting
I recently updated my phone to Pie, the latest version of Android. It also updated my phone camera software, and the settings were all in different places! It took a while to find one of my favourites which is the “Silky Water” light painting mode. It’s designed to be used with the camera held still, […]
I’ve got a new mobile phone. It makes calls, texts and happily WhatApps, but the camera module and its software are worlds away from my previous mobile. It has a Leica-branded double camera setup and has, it seems, a 27mm f1.8 Summilux-H lens. The software is also powerful. It can do the fancy “fake-bokeh” thing, […]
…as the old saying goes. Its not just the grass that’s growing well here in the south of England. The spring flowers have started flowering too. Having looked at and admired them the question arises of how best to photograph them. If you want to get close-up to a flower you can stand at a […]
On my “Movement in Photography” workshops, and in my camera club talks, I discuss the use of camera movement and subject movement, but sometimes an image that involves neither cries out to be taken! These are battery-powered LED Xmas lights taken with a wide-aperture lens (f1.4) and defocused to give nice big “bokeh” circles. There’s […]