Just before I write the next post I thought you might like to know about another creative photography award! Well, I thought you might like to know, so here goes… I’ve just won an award at the MPA Great Western Regional Portrait Awards. It was in the “Under 5’s ” category and was from a child’s portrait […]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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 think that eccentric photography is a good thing! There are various meanings of the word “eccentric”, but let’s use the one that, according to Wikipedia, means “out of the centre”. It’s really easy to put the main subject of your images in the exact centre, as most of the time it’s how we see things. When […]
I have mentioned on this blog before that it’s all about the photographer, and not about the camera. It’s still true! I’ve been invited by a local photographic club to talk to them about using digital compact cameras, compared to using digital SLRs. At that talk I’ll mention the benefits, and the challenges, of creative […]