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How Cassie Learned to Create Award-Winning Digital Pictures
3x2 Crop Dungeness October 2009. Infrared capture, 3200 ISO, f16, 125/s. A good example of letting your digital negatives mature over a ten year period. Taken a bright day the dark rendering makes the picture work for me. How Cassie Learned to Create...
New Viltrox Prime Lenses With Auto Focus For APS-C Sensors
Murrays’ Mill, Ancoats, Manchester - December 2019. 11mm f333 Pinhole Lens 0.4s, 51,200 ISO - Handheld Happy New Year It's that time of year again to wish all insunderary a happy new year. So consider yourself wished from me! New Viltrox...
Preparing to Wave Adobe Goodbye 6
Raw Bank Petrol Pumps Yorkshire Dales on the Mono Take > Select > Edit Masterclass - see the 2020 dates I was last writing about this subject nearly a year ago. See the current penultimate post in the series hereI was alerted to thinking about potential...
A Hierarchy of Photographic Importance
Refilling oil cans – Didcot Railway Centre – October 2019. Fujinon 8-16mm f2.8 lens taken on the recent Depth of Field workshop In this post is - The Hierarchy of Photographic Importance, Talk and demonstration opportunities for your club, Inspiration – Black...
Use These 6 Tips On How To Come Up With Photo Ideas Part 2 of 2
"Blue sky thinking", meaning creative ideas that are not constrained by preconceptions. The Creative Pathway - Part 2 In part 1 I concluded there is an idea that photography is or can be a solitary pursuit. There may be limits to self-expression where...
Use These 6 Tips On How To Come Up With Photo Ideas Part 1 of 2
"Blue sky thinking", meaning creative ideas that are not constrained by preconceptions. This is the first part of a two-part series on how to come up with ideas. This is not a new line of enquiry a Google search on how to come up with ideas for art found about...
12 Tips to Speed Up Digital Camera Capture Part 2
Late again - New Brunswick 2010 The Reasons Why There are generally trade-offs to be considered when setting up your camera, particularly when you want to go to the limits its design specification. In this post, I am going to share with you some of my current...
12 Tips to Speed Up Digital Camera Capture Part 1
Late again - New Brunswick 2010 12 - 24mm lens The Reasons Why Being ready for the shot The best camera in the world is of no use to you unless you are prepared and ready to take the shot. In the next series, I want to explore ways of speeding up digital camera...
Where Is The picture? Part 3
Spitalfields Teadance 2019 – Double Bass Player with no Crop. Samyang 85mm f1.4 200 ISO 1/35s f1.4 7th in a series of 11 shots. I love the high key effect; the post-processing issue is to get enough shadow detail without overpowering the highlights. Part 3 -...
Where Is The Picture Part 2
Spitalfields Teadance 2019 – Double Bass Player with no Crop. Samyang 85mm f1.4 200 ISO 1/35s f1.4 7th in a series of 11 shots. I love the high key effect; the post-processing issue is to get enough shadow detail without overpowering the highlights. Where Is The...
Where is The Picture Part 1
Spitalfields Tea dance 2019 – Double Bass Player and Dancers Where is the Picture? - Part 1 In this three-part series, I want to look at the fascinating subject of visual awareness and explore what I think and feel about why some photographers say “where is...
Shoot Loose Crop Tight Part 2
Shoot Loose Crop Tight Part 2 If you missed part 1 of this mini-series it can be found here. In part 2 I will be looking at the following topics The artistic and technical reasons to a re-crop a picture The Lightroom Crop Tool Shoot Loose Crop Tight Good Crop...
Shoot Loose Crop Tight Part 1
Chatterley Whitfield Colliery Stoke on Trent April 2019. The crop has enhanced the triangular compostion (bike, Chimmney & telegraph post) and lost some of the dead space on the left. I feel the original composition was ok but made sronger by the applied...
A Relationship Between Respect and Resentment
Spitalfields Market Tea Dance June 2019 135mm, 200 ISO, f1.4, 1/6s handheld A Relationship Between Respect and Resentment I have written a few times recently about my view that digital photography is too everything! By that, I mean sharp, contrasty and...
Wisdom from Joe Cornish
Lloyds of London, Leadenhall St EC1 - 16mm f333 wide-angle pinhole lens, ISO 51,200, 1/40 s This blog post will look at:Photograhic journalsWise words from the English photographer Joe CornishThe new Texture Slider in Lightroom and ACRPointing a spotlight on my new...
Easily and Quickly Create A Google My Map
Google My Maps Planning I love maps. This post was prompted by the work I was doing last night in researching my local area of outstanding natural beauty. The Mendip Hills near me are usually somewhere I drive around to get to somewhere else of outstanding natural...
Expand the vision and style of your clubs photographers
Expand the vision and style of your clubs photographers Make positive changes for the better to their photography Interesting and entertaining club talks & demo’s how pictures are made and not just taken. A range of talks is offered on Mono and Colour...
Booking Now For Next Seasons Talks
Eilean Donan Castle 2016 Booking Now For Next Seasons Talks Talk and demonstration opportunities for your club Here is a list of the talks and demonstrations I offer camera clubs - FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO YOUR CLUB PROGRAMME SECRETARY IF YOU WANT ME TO VISIT...
Quickly Make a Fotospeed Easybook
Foundry Workers Cottage Blaenavon February 2019 Fotospeed Easy Books A Fotospeed Easybook allows you to create a reusable portfolio album without additional tools or glue. You will have the ability to quickly and easily change the pictures. Easybooks are great for...
How Acceptable Is Digital Sharpness To You?
Pictures from my daily walk "Flowers by a lamppost" January 2019 50mm F1.4 lens and a single layer of a plastic bag filter Sharpness is not all it’s cracked up to be in photography Sharpness is not all it’s cracked up to be in photography as the f64 Group thought in...
Club Talks and Demos for Next Season – Book Now
Ballintoy Harbour County Antrim NI January 2019 Talk and demonstration opportunities for your club Here is a list of the talks and demonstrations I offer camera clubs - FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO YOUR CLUB PROGRAMME SECRETARY IF YOU ME TO VISIT YOUR CLUB NEXT SEASON ...
Experience comes from bad judgement
© Andy Beel FRPS December 2018. Appledore Lifeboat Slipway taken on the "What you need to do next is... workshop" The ABC of CameraWork The viewfinder workflow Back in 2011, I came up with an easily remembered mnemonic called The ABC of CameraWork to help...
Stormy Monday Brings Photo Opportunities
Bude beach huts and flowers in the wind - December 2018 Review of “What You Need To Do Next Is…” Workshop My kind of afternoon - Camelot Hotel, Tintagel December 2018 The over-riding memory I will have of the “what you need to do next is…” workshop in 2018 is...
Just enough light is all you need
Paola of the El Centro Flamenco Dance Studio in Capileira, Andalucía "Just enough light is all you need" Andy Beel FRPS El Chorrillo - Baños De Sierra Alhamilla A quick review of the “How to see photographically” workshop in Andalucía run last...
Excellent Christmas Presents For Passionate Photographers
Fish & Chips London Embankment November 2018 Excellent Christmas Presents For Passionate and Purposeful Photographers A wealth of digital knowledge and interpretation is presented in The Dark Art Printing Manual “I have a huge book collection and I like...
“Originality is nothing but… 2
Snowdonia Monochrome Masterclass October 2018 Originality 2 - the 4 S’s of Creativity Following on from last week’s post about the 4 S’s Creative Funnel I thought I would extend the information available giving you some pointers on how to start the process. Sieve and...
“Originality Is Nothing But…
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation” Voltaire The 4 S’s Creativity Funnel We can think of the generation and filtering of ideas as like using a garden sieve and funnel. A sieve has a mesh size that only passes an acceptable or wanted size of gravel. The...
The first condition of progress is…
“The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.” George Bernard Shaw Scotland in the rain of December 2005, this picture was selected on the basis of the George Bernard Shaw quote above / below. The censored approach would say the unprocessed file is...
Be Passionate About Your Photography
Lisette Model – The passionate street photographer who taught Diane Arbus Model helped Arbus find the confidence to make the photographs she wanted to but was unsure she should: penetrating portraits of people at the fringes of society and those she encountered on the...
Ask Questions, Not Answer Them
Above - The finished picture converted to B&W and split-toned in Lightroom Left - As taken Right - Converted to B&W with no other enhancements This blog post contains a variety of different things currently buzzing round in the back of my head. They aren’t in...
Education is the most powerful weapon
Learn, Grow and Express yourself "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." Nelson Mandela Is your photography moving forward and changing over time? A great example is a comparison between two composers you might have heard...
How to see photographically workshop
How to see photographically workshop Date – 26 November – 2 December 2018 2 places available Here is a great chance to be in the learning-zone to boost your photographic skills and knowledge. This very well received photographic seeing workshop is being offered at...
Straightforward strategies for more communicative pictures
Communicative and authentic picture making Here is an experience embedding exercise from the chapter on Attraction in The ABC manual of CameraWork – How to see photographically. Make a list of aspects of your photography that are important to you and why, which you...
3 Essential tips for continuing your photography
3 Essential tips for continuing your photography Once the photography bug bites it is difficult to shake it off and you will want to continue your hobby or profession for as long as you can. In this post, I’m going to talk about some of the essential aspects of your...
Practice Authentic Seeing Without a Camera
Significant seeing I would suggest that every photographer has a basic desire to get past the act of cursory looking and begin to see what is significant to them. The subject matter and genre make no difference. If you want your pictures to be personal and authentic...
Try My New Free Online Pro Review Service
Iron Foundry Workers Bedroom Blaenavon 2017 Try My New Free Online Pro Review I have just launched a new service I am offering you a free online pro review this is an opportunity to get my professional insights into your work and how you can make changes for the...
10 Hot Hints – Add Impact To Club Competition Photos
How To Add impact to competition photos. You are a camera club photographer and you have put your best picture into the latest competition. Your latest entry gives you high hopes of an award. Judging night comes and the judges’ comments are not as expected. As a judge...
Try This Escape Route To First-Rate Photography
Your escape route If you are seeking an escape route from your current way of making photographs here are a few thoughts to help you successfully move forward. I will not try to pacify you by saying that the journey to first-rate photography is quick, simple or easy...
Easy Digital Pinhole Photography
The reason why - perfection is not all its cracked up to be I am not convinced that straight photography as promoted by Alfred Steichen and Edward Weston of the f64 Group fame in 1932 is the only true faith. Their raison detre was that the main difference between...
Try These Tips For Planning A Landscape Shoot
Blaen y Glyn Uchaf - Bannau Brycheiniog May 2018 Try these tips for planning a landscape shoot Landscape photography is a classic subject of the photographic genre with much written online and in books. In this post, I’m going to concentrate on how to plan a...
Cameras do not make photographs’
Cameras do not make photographs’ In this post, I will be briefly looking at the truth behind the statement "cameras do not make photographs’." Your highly expensive camera does not know you or love you. You can accurately think for your camera but it can only guess at...
The Secrets of Shadows
The Deep Secret of Shadows The Feature Picture Above Here on the right is the starting point for the picture of the harbour walls at Porthgain in Pembrokeshire "It is not where you start that is important, but where you finish". This shot was taken on the residential...
Behind the shot 1 – Legacy Lenses
Behind the shot – Legacy Lenses This ancient looking picture of the Bristol Tobacco Bond A Warehouse was taken last Sunday. The idea behind the picture was to marry the foreground and background together. The foreground is two of the struts on the Ashton Avenue Bridge...
Fujifilm UK featured photographer of the week
Fujifilm featured photographer of the week I am delighted to announce Fujifilm has selected my work to promote their brand and values across all social media platforms for the week commencing 23 April 2018. There will be a daily post for the week spotlighting a...
When do you need film or digital capture?
When do you need film or digital capture? Depending on your photographic vision and intent there may be the opportunity to consider the artistic value of film capture. This post looks at some of the artistic and craft reason why digital may not entirely satisfy you....
Try These Tips For Selecting Pictures – Part 2
Try These Tips For Selecting Pictures - Part 2 Photography is the art of communication. To extend that thought a photograph is a direct act of communication, you the photographer are the viewer's eyes. See part one of this series “How to select pictures for your blog...
How to create the perception of depth in your prints
The Perception of Depth Here is a technique that is suitable for both colour and black and white pictures. In this post, we will be looking at how to create the perception of depth in a picture firstly by choosing images that are suitable for the treatment and...
Read My Thoughts From West Sussex
Last week I spent a few days down in West Sussex around Chichester. The great attraction for me in the area is Chichester Harbour with all its creeks and inlets. The most famous of all these locations is the village of Bosham with its iconic church spire. The previous...
The Final Act Of Photography Is The Print
A print in the hand is worth two on the screen I greatly value the sponsorship I have received from Fotospeed over the past 11 years. Fotospeed has a philosophy of continuous product development and customer service that is unrivalled. The whole team at Fotospeed are...
Alert New Fujifilm X-H1 Camera Body
New Fujifilm X-H1 Camera Alert I have taken the plunge and now have the Fujifilm X-H1 body mainly for its In-Body Image Stabilisation (IBIS) capability. As many Fujifilm camera users will know, Fujifilm does not build OIS into prime lenses, only some zooms. Just...
See Like A Professional Try These Cool Tips – Part 2
Sea swimming Pool Cliftonville February 2018 - Frame 2 of 14 This is the second of two posts in the "See Like A Professional" series. In the first post we looked at the following topics: Bad pictures are good, Shoot fewer frames of more subjects or shoot more frames...
How To Insert Motivational Hints In Lightroom
Cuckmere River - late winter afternoon 2014 How to insert motivational hints in Lightroom Note in the Screen Grab below the Identity Plate Editor has been used to change the text from "Lightroom Classic" to "What the is the highest potential - Is this the best you...
The Craft of Photographic Seeing
The Craft of Photographic Seeing Workshop Only 2 places available Andalucia – Ronda, Seville & Cadiz 4 – 11 February 2018 Benefits Learn and embed the craft of photographic seeing Feel valued in a small group tailored to meet your specific needs Rapid...
Preparing to Wave Adobe Goodbye 5
Porthgain - Pembrokeshire February 2017 - taken during the Photo Seeing Workshop. Preparing To Wave Adobe Goodbye 5 For those of you interested in the potential of the On 1 Photo Raw software to replace Lightroom Classic in the future here is a link to the On1 blog....
The Art of Photographic Composition Workshop
The Art of Photographic Composition Workshop How well do you understand and use Composition techniques? The Infographic below sets out the progressive knowledge and skill base of an expert photographer. Would like help to make your compositions more dynamic? ...
Preparing To Wave Adobe Goodbye 4
Preparing To Wave Adobe Goodbye 4 Preparing to wave goodbye to Adobe 4 This is an update to Preparing to wave goodbye to Adobe 3. Adobe has issued its last update for the standalone product Lightroom 6. For anybody wishing to purchase this last version of Lightroom...
Merry Christmas From Andy Beel
A Merry Messy Christmas From Andy Beel You may also like these Encouraging Articles... A Understanding the reason for taking a picture and sharing it B Any picture will either sings or sag depending on the background Breaking the imaginary link between the file and...
How To Make A Digital Lith Print
How To Make A Digital Lith Print Inspiration Inspiration in photography can come from a variety of different sources. The inspiration for today's blog feature picture was gained from the last post I put on Instagram. A picture taken earlier this year in southern Spain...
Visit the Spike Island Exhibition
Picture (C) Peter Brisley ARPS Spike Island - Bristol A photographic essay by Peter Brisley, Tony Copper and Gordon James at The Create Centre until Friday 5th January. Create Centre, Smeaton Road, Spike Island, Bristol BS1 6XN You may also like...
Get New Insights With These Photography Workshops
Get New Insights With These Photography Workshops The Art of Photographic Composition Workshop £799.00 St Davids – Pembrokeshire Mon 29 Jan – Fri 2 Feb 2018 Highlights Open a door to expressive seeing and composition Gain fresh new insights Excellent for both colour...
Normal Service has been resumed
Normal Service has been resumed Apologies to those of you who tried to view the website over the weekend the technical glitch has been fixed. Being a bear of very little brain it would overtax my brain cell to explain what went wrong and why. Normal service has been...
Try 10 Easy ABC of CameraWork Photo Selection Tips
Try 10 Easy ABC of CameraWork Photo Selection Tips In a world where we all take far more pictures than we ever did five years ago, we have so many choices to make when it comes to selecting pictures to edit. In his blog post, I will be looking at the criteria for...
What’s new in the XT-2 Firmware 3.00 update?
XT-2 Firmware Update Version 3.00 - Easy Overexposure Warnings The new highlight overexposure features in this firmware update caught my eye. For the first time for the XT-2 you can see which pixels have reached 100% brightness before committing to the shot....
What Is An Aspiring Photographers Problem?
Q. What Is An Aspiring Photographers Problem? A. Not enough time in The Learning Zone High-risk performance zones We spend much of our lives in a high-risk performance zone, we are doing what we normally do to make a picture. In order to improve any photographic...
No More Duplicate Emails
No More Duplicate Emails No more multiple blog post notification emails Hopefully, this is the last of my blog posts where some email subscribers receive multiple emails containing the same post. The New Process The Wordpress and Mailchimp databases will be...
Shadows are the soul of a black and white print
Castle Combe Golf Course 2014 Shadows are the soul of a black and white print Photography is not about photography as a subject matter.Black and white photography is not about taking pretty colour out. Black and white photography is principally about directional...
The Image Circle Exhibition Chichester
The Image Circle Exhibition Chichester 14 - 19 November 2017 10.00 - 16.30 The Oxmarket Centre of Arts Chichester PO19 1YH theimagecircle.com Picture (c) Alan Frost ARPS 2017 Click here to receive my Newsletter and be the first to receive offers, advice and...
Master Photographers Worry About Appropriate Lighting
Master Photographers Worry About Appropriate Lighting The direction and quality of lighting is everything to a master photographer You may think the light is the light because its all you have when you have your camera to hand. Time of day and year makes a huge...
The Dark Art – A Black and White Digital Printing Workshop Manual
Platinum Blonde - Bristol Harbour 2016 The Dark Art A Black and White Digital Printing Workshop Manual Hurrah, a big box of new “The Dark Art” books arrived from the printers today. Spruce up your digital black and white printing skills in Photoshop or Lightroom. Here...
How to See Photographically Workshop
How To See Photographically Workshop For those of you who have not booked to come on the How to See Photographically workshop in Andalucia next week the feature picture above is a typical after breakfast shot. These shots are typically taken at about 8.55 am...
Preparing To Wave Adobe Goodbye3
Sheltering from the rain - Scheveningen, The Netherlands 2013 Preparing To Wave Adobe Goodbye 3 Now that the fury has calmed down about the direction of Lightroom, it is now possible to see the wood for the trees. In my last post on this subject, I gave a...
New Pocket-able Camera
New Pocket-able Camera Love hate relationship I have always had a love-hate relationship with compact pocket-able cameras. I have tried three or four different cameras over the years and with each one I have grown to loathe them with equal contempt. The compact that...
How To See Photographically – Extra Free Day
How To See Photographically Workshop - Extra Free Day Extra Free Day Tomorrow Tuesday 24th Oct I am doing an extra free day included in the cost of the How to See Photograph Workshop in Spain. The Learn Grow Express Workshops are based on the ABC of Camerawork...
Preparing To Wave Adobe Goodbye2
Preparing to Wave Adobe Goodbye 2 The panic is over for now. The classic version of Lightroom does NOT require you to upload pictures to the cloud. Update My thanks go out to those of you who responded with comments on the first post in this series. Special...
Preparing To Wave Adobe Goodbye1
Preparing to Wave Adobe Goodbye 1 Adobe is one of the most profitable companies on the planet turning over a massive 5.8 Billion USD in 2016. The turnover in 2015 was 4.8 Billion. The companies income rose by 21% after the introduction of the Creative Cloud...
6 Must-Have Photographer Skills
6 Must-Have Photographer Skills To be a good photographer requires you to be at one with your camera. There is a seamless connection between awareness and intuition that effortlessly allows you to set your camera to record the picture. This post focuses on the camera...
Skogafoss Iceland – Staying dry?
Skogafoss - Iceland After returning to Iceland seven years after my first visit I was most struck by the increase in the number of tourists mainly from south-east Asia. If you are the type of photographer who does not want people in your...
An Icelandic Trip – The Highlands and South Coast
An Icelandic Trip - The Highlands and South Coast I have just returned from a 12 day trip in the south of Iceland as those of you who follow me on Instagram will know. The trip included the spectacular Icelandic Highlands where a 4x4 vehicle is necessary to cross the...
Wide-angle Workshop – St Fagans
Wide-angle Workshop at St Fagans The location for last week's wide-angle workshop had to be quickly amended as The Big Pit Museum was closed for the day we planned to go. The chosen new location was the St Fagans Museum just the west of Cardiff. The feature shot above...
On Being a Photographer – a Practical Guide
On Being a Photographer - a practical guide Dear Andy, "I forgot to add the other day that the David Hurn book (On being a photographer - a practical guide) is a real discovery for me - quite the best and the most quietly inspiring book I have read on photography so...
Please Follow Me On My New Instagram Page
My New Instagram Page To make life easier for you to see my pictures I have started an Instagram page. The page address is https://www.instagram.com/andybeelfrps/ The page is populated with pictures so it will be worth taking a look. Please follow me on Instagram,...
Depth of Field Workshop – Update
Depth of Field Workshop - Update A good time was had by all at the Master Depth of Field (DoF) Workshop held at Didcot Railway Centre yesterday. The weather was good not too: cold, hot, windy, bright or dull! The Workshop focused on the 4 levers that control DoF. Many...
Fotofest 2017 Open For Bookings Now
Fotospeed are delighted to bring together 4 world-renowned photographers for a day of talks Sunday 10th September 2017 at the EDGE, University of Bath Following on from the success of 2016 Fotospeed are thrilled to host FotoFest 2017 at a new...
Video Interview With Huntington Witherill On Composition Tips
World renowned Photographer Huntington Witherill shares his secrets of stunning composition with Marc Silber.
Adding Film Grain In Lightroom & Photoshop
Discover the best way to add film grain to a digital picture in Lightroom or Photoshop
Learn How To Get Fast Depth of Field Results
Learn How To Get Fast Depth of Field Results On the Mastering Depth of Field in a day workshop I will be showing you how to get fast depth of field results. The planned Mastering Depth of Field Workshop has been given a new date. I believe my clients and I made a good...
Stunning Street Photography With These 5 Ways
Here are some ways for you to do stunning street photography in a shorter space of time. Walking around with a camera in the street and taking the odd snap is the slow way to get results. This method could be called the how not get great results guide. Picture (c) by...
See Like A Professional Try These Cool Tips-Part 1
See Like A Professional This is the first of two posts in the see like a professional series. There are many articles about photographic seeing available on the web and in print. The idea behind this article is to set out some of the wider fundamental thinking before...
Learning To See The Light With These Hot Hints
An intuitive response It seems that there are some photographers who intuitively look and see the light within a picture. There are others who look and do not see the light. So, how if you are in the second group, can you teach yourself to see and recognise the light?...
Easy Steps For Setting IR Black and White Points in Lightroom
Easy Tips For Setting The IR Black & White Points In Lightroom The IR Workshop This feature shot was taken yesterday on the first of three How To Take Better IR Photos Workshops. The next workshop with places if you are interested is on the 11 September 2017 at...
5 Easy Steps To Increase Impact With Your Tele Lens
5 Easy Steps to Increase Impact With Your Tele Lens The strength of a tele lens is it allows to fill the frame and remove visual distractions at the taking stage. Thus, increasing the overall impact of the shot. Always have in mind the saying “Use it or lose it”....
Feedback from the Fuji Camera Users Workshop
A review of the Southwest Fuji Cameras Users Workshop A quick review of the Southwest Fuji Cameras Users Workshop held on Wednesday 12th July at National Trust property at Dyrham Park just north of Bristol and Bath. "Just a note to thank you for a most enjoyable...
FujiFilm XT-2 Firmware Upgrade History
Video with thanks to the FujiFilm The FujiFilm XT-2 Firmware Upgrade History XT-2 Firmware upgrade history update Ver.1.10 from Ver.1.00 incorporates the following issues: Tether shooting is available by USB connection. One of the application software below is...
Ignore the picture background at your peril
Controlling backgrounds - Malaga harbour 2016 The reasons why - controlling picture backgrounds A picture has the potential to either sing or sag with the assistance of the background. For me, the background is a real make or break issue for a cohesive and integrated...
Wide-angle Lens Workshop at the Big Pit Museum
A very brief report A good time was had by all at the first "How to get the most from a wide-angle lens" workshop at Blaenavon. Maybe you have a wide-angle lens and are not sure how to use it effectively. Here is a wide-angle lens workshop where you can pick up hot...
How To Scan Glass Plate Negatives With Ease
How to scan glass plate negatives with ease The subject of this post is in response to a query by a client Lynn Buckley about my last post on retouching old photos. As a postscript Lynn went on to scan the negatives she had and the pictures were used in a...
Harness The Power Of Picture Templates
Harness the power of picture templates We all carry around in our heads a set of photo templates (pre-visualisations) that are the subjects and compositions we use to take pictures. These templates form the backbone of our photography. It is important to recognise...
Selecting pictures for your blog or website – 6 easy ways
Selecting pictures for your blog or website – Try these 6 easy ways A Newspaper Picture Editors Role Imagine you are a newspaper picture editor, your job is to make a selection from all the pictures that are uploaded from photographers on the ground. They will...
10 ways to get the best from your Smart Phone Camera
Photography is a combination of the technical and artistic both are needed to make a successful picture As we all know there has been a revolution in digital photography. Every new generation of mobile phones makes it easier to take pictures in more difficult...