Abstract photography is the art of creating a non-representative photo that relies on texture, colour, shape or lighting for its effect. Ideally, it should not be immediately apparent what the…
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Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoy and appreciate black and white photography. It’s just that colour photography has long been my preference. (A sentence to make my first photography…
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Do you want sharper pictures? It’s the holy grail of many a photographer who cannot work out how to do it. You see pin sharp pictures everywhere, yet have no…
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Landscape photographers would be a bit stuck if they were banned from using wide-angle lenses. The wide-angle lens – and we’re talking about anything with a focal length of 24mm…
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Underwater photography is a tricky thing to master, but one of the most important aspects is light. Water sucks the life out of light turning it a dull blueish hue…
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Back in the days of film, you had a couple of key decisions to make before investing in a new camera system. First of all, what size film would you…
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It’s distressingly easy to plateau as a photographer, to reach a certain level of competence and then stay there. Often there’s a simple reason for this. Because I’m good to…
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Every photographer welcomes the day a new lens arrives in the post. Just recently I had such a day. And do you know what, I was more excited than usual…
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In part one of Getting to know Adobe Lightroom we looked at the basics of creating a Catalog and importing images to view them in the Library module. Hold onto your hats for today…
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Taking portraits outdoors can be challenging when the ambient light is not ideal. Since it’s not possible to control the sun, (at least, I have not discovered how to yet,)…
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