Travel & Humanitarian Photos
The vocabulary of photography reveals a truth that we would all do well to heed. We might “take” pictures, “grab” frames, some of you might even “capture” or “steal” a quick photograph from time to time. That one-sided result is one that Roman philosopher Seneca would have disapproved of. He said, no doubt predicting that [...]
A review of X-Rite’s Color-Checker Passport and Lightroom plug-in.
Photographers. We love the good light. The golden light. We’ll set our alarm clocks at ridiculously early times in the hope of seeing the first amber rays of the day and we’ll hang around a place long after the sensible people have gone home. We’re like bees. Motordrives buzzing as we sniff out the honey-coloured [...]
The current edition of the excellent Canon EOS magazine carries my tutorial on the production of HDR (High Dynamic Range) images. Firstly, let me just say that if you’re a Canon user and don’t subscribe to EOS then it’s well worth considering. I’ve been a reader of the magazine since before I started working as [...]
My picture of a boy cycling, hands-free, along a street in Varanassi appears in this month’s Photo Plus ‘Inspirations” pages and is a good introduction to my top Top Ten Tips for Successful Panning: Panning, or following a subject with your camera, is a great technique to use of you want to introduce a sense [...]
It’s proving to be an exciting week with all sorts of projects and opportunities presenting themselves – more of which later. Watch this space! In the mean time, one of the things I’m really looking forward to is taking up a guest slot on David duChemin’s pixelatedimage blog later in the week. David and I [...]
I’ve wanted to have a go at producing one of these images of a smoky abstract for a while, since first seeing them on the Chromasia web site. They seem so other-worldy and the shapes produced by the smoke particles are often quite beautiful. It’s also interesting how we tend to want to find recognisable [...]