An important question that’s asked in photographic circles these days is whether it’s best to make your final image as much as possible in-camera, or whether it should be left to the editing stage in Photoshop (PS). Some people insist that everything should be done at the taking stage, while others insist that PS is […]
At a recent “The Creative Eye” photography course that I ran for the Royal Photographic Society in Bath, we talked about useful photographic accessories. One suggestion that surprised some delegates was a plastic sheet about 6 feet by 3 feet. What on earth would you want that for? Well, it’s really useful for when you […]
Many modern compact cameras try and reduce a major cause of low quality images; camera shake. They do this by increasing the ISO, to give a short shutter speed, and using image stabilisation. This is OK for most images, but it takes away a technique for creative photography; long shutter speeds. Using long shutter speeds […]
One subject that often comes up when I am doing talks or training is about zooming. It’s generally when we’re talking about getting closer to the subject. People say, “Surely if I need to get closer I can just zoom in”. By “zoom” they normally mean using a telephoto lens, or local focal length, to […]
Welford Park, near Newbury in Berkshire, is a country house with a real speciality this time of the year; snowdrops. The galanthus bit of this post’s title is the Latin name for snowdrops. It comes from the Greek for “milk flower”. For a few weeks in February and early March the gardens are open, so […]
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