10 Great articles for getting the best out of your camera
This week I thought I’d share some articles from around the internet all of which provide a whole host of insightful tips and lessons to help you get the best out of your camera. 6 Tips every new music photographer should know by Todd Owyoung Fancy getting into music photography? Then learn from the best. [...]
Snappy Tips for Better Photos – part 5 – Composition
For this fifth and final post (for the time being in my Snappy Tips series), I’m going to focus on composition and some simple do’s and dont’s. Learn the rules and then learn why and how to break them. Rule of Thirds Imagine splitting your frame into 3 equal horizontal strips, and then 3 equal [...]
Derwent Valley in the High Peaks
Further to last week’s post on Stanage Edge in the Peak District, here’s a couple more images from that weekend that I’ve just processed. Multi-frame HDRs processed in Photomatix Pro and then tweaked in Photoshop and Lightroom. Got quite a few keepers that weekend, so there’ll be more to come…. Shortest post ever I [...]
Stanage Edge in the Peak District
Last weekend, I had the privilege to spend the entire weekend up in the Peak District. If you’d been following my tweets, you’d have noticed that Saturday, weather-wise, was a disaster. The day started off grey and miserable and ended up the same way, and to be pretty honest felt even greyer and more miserable [...]
Blacko Tower, Nelson, Lancashire
This is a photograph that I made earlier this week up on the Lancashire / Yorkshire border. I had intended to try and get quite a bit closer to the tower, and did plenty of research before heading out only to find a large “Private Property – Keep out sign” on the gate at the [...]
Bridgewater Canal, Lymm
Last weekend I was over in Lymm by the Bridgewater Canal just before sunset where I made the photograph above. It wasn’t quite as still as this initially looks. It was actually a little breezy, but I wanted a silky smooth feel to the water for this, so I popped on my Singh Ray variable [...]
4 Photography Apps I couldn’t live without
About a month or so back, I decided for one reason or another that it was time to change up my mobile handset and after careful deliberation discarded my trusty iPhone 4 and bought a Samsung Galaxy SII running the Android OS. One of this particular handset’s biggest selling points for me was the camera. [...]
A quick trip to Mars, Lancashire
Puddles in a field, New Longton (Click to view larger) A little detour on a trip back from Lancashire earlier in the week found me at the entrance to the field above just as the sun was setting around 6pm. The countryside around these parts is rather flat and uninspiring and it was hard [...]
More from the Lake District
I had intended this post to be a follow on from last Tuesday’s “4 Photography gadgets I couldn’t be without“, and was going to focus on “4 iPhone photography apps that I couldn’t do without”. But I’ve just gone over to the darkside and got myself an Android, and I’m still finding my feet with [...]
Ambleside, the Lake District
Last week I made it up to the Lake District again, and although this time I was up there for less than 24 hours, it proved quite a productive trip. The light on the evening I arrived was good. Not great, [...]
John Ryland’s Library revisited
As part of the reworking through my library I’ve found quite a few images of Manchester that I had initially discarded which looking at now, with a slightly older and more informed taste, I think are most definitely usable photographs. Both of these images were taken inside John Ryland’s Library in Manchester on one of [...]
Windsor Castle in HDR
Earlier in the summer we had a family jaunt down to Legoland in Windsor, and swung by Windsor Castle on the way back. It was a bright and sunny couple of days, hardly ideal for photography, but you make the best of what you can. Windsor castle and gardens are such a lovely environment that [...]
Manchester – stitched panorama
A couple of weeks ago I found myself in the car park in the old Great Northern Warehouse accosted by a couple of security guards inquiring as to what I was photographing. Remarkably, they were quite amenable and just left me to get on with what I was doing. That has to be a first. [...]
Manchester… once more….
Having found my feet again after my little jaunt to Portugal last week (more images here), I’ve been going back through my images of Manchester that I’d shot so far this year after a request from a client for a particular image. It turns out that I have over 1500 frames still waiting to be [...]
Cheshire Sunset
Last night I headed over to see a client and drop off some images. As usual I had a camera and a couple of lenses in the boot, and as the evening light was becoming increasingly appealing as sunset approached I decided to take a bit of a detour on my way back. I drove [...]
Maltese motors
Another Maltese based post… Friday’s topic will not be, in case you’re getting a little sick of them….. Whilst out there on my last trip I was asked to shoot some cars. Not just any old cars mind, but three classics. The Maltese are big to the point of fanatical on old British motor cars. [...]
Maltese streets
One of the most important aspects of travel photography is maximizing your shooting time, especially if you’re only there for a short time and it’s a speculative trip rather than an assignment. It all comes down to planning and on this last trip to Malta I had one, sketchy in places, but a plan nonetheless. [...]
Another trip to Malta
I’ve finally got round to processing some of my images from my most recent trip to Malta. The top and bottom images were shot in the medieval walled town of Mdina or “Silent City” as it’s often referred to. Mdina was first inhabited around 700BC and is one of the highest points on the island [...]
Wembley on what could have been a better night…
I’m not really quite sure what to say about these images, as quite frankly I’m still a little numb from the defeat.
Looking up in Manchester
The other morning I went for a stroll around Manchester city centre again, but this time I set myself a slightly different constraint; I could only shoot up. So no street shots, macros of handrails or puddles, and generally no people either, unless they were sporting a blue and red cape.
More from Malta 2
Click here to buy a print or licence a digital copy of this image. Once again the top image is a hand-held 5 frame HDR. (See this post for more info)
Malta street scenes
In an attempt to improve my SEO, and to show off a little more of my work, I’m going to to try and move up to a bi-weekly posting schedule. No, that doesn’t mean I’m going to start posting on transgender topics! So as part of my new schedule, here’s another couple of images from [...]
Malta in HDR
Click here to buy a print or licence a digital copy of the above image Don’t believe everything you read about HDR techniques! Whilst on a whistle stop tour of Gozo in Malta last week, I shot quite a few street scenes but as this was a family trip I decided not to take a [...]
Spring is in the air
The other weekend, seeing an eery mist in the air before dawn, I hurled myself out the door determined to make some photographs before the sun rose and the atmosphere dissipated.
