Blue hour photography at the Exotic Garden
My good friend Will and I were chatting last week about talking photo’s in the dark, with selective flash on certain areas of his exotic garden, and we decided we’d give it a go this evening. So using a tripod, a shutter speed of about 10 or 15 seconds, at roughly f/8 or f/11… and [...]
Tethered shooting with Lightroom and Canon 40D – How To
Canon tethered to Lightroom tutorial.
Having not used a tethered setup in a while as I usually work on location, I had to double check everything was working correctly for an upcoming project. I thought I would compile my thoughts into a ‘How-To’ for other people who might have problems setting up tethering.
How to shoot tethered [...]
Poi photograpy (fire spinning)
Messing around at a friends party this weekend, and got the chance to photograph Poi (fire spinning).
I hadn’t given it much thought, and it was quite late on in the party.. so I had already become a little intoxicated, so please forgive my first attempts!
I had my Sigma 10-20mm on my 40D with a Speedlite [...]
Cokin Filters – Gear Review and tests
Hello again, has been a while since I last posted.
I thought i’d write a little about Cokin filters I’ve been using for the last 8 months or so with my Canon 40D, primarily attached to my Sigma 10-20mm lens, which I love – it’s hardly been off my camera since I bought it many months [...]
Jewellery photography, how to take jewellery photographs with simple tips and techniques
I have recently done another set of jewellery photographs for a local jeweller, Julia Parry-Jones. She has a very unique style of jewellery, and is always a challenge to photograph. I am currently using 2 x Elinchrom D lite 4 flash units, with a 1.5m square light cube open at the front, with a black [...]
Tests with a Lightroom HDR style effect
Am still messing around with a HDR style effect in Lightroom after following a tutorial on the Lightroom killer tips site. Quite an interesting style – I like the scratchy, grainy high contrast effect it makes.
Sigma 10-20mm wide angle tests at ISO 1600 – and willing Dalmatians
Just messing around with the Sigma 10-20mm… and lightroom….just for fun, can’t be serious all the time now can I! Am loving the way the checkered tiles work behind the Dalmatian.
Taken at something like ISO 1600 at 10mm, F4
What is sRaw? Canon 40D sRaw files, what are sRaw files used for?
What is sRaw?
After searching the net to find out what the differences between standard RAW and sRAW – I thought I would post it here incase other people end up searching for it too.
sRaw is quite simply is a small version of a standard RAW file, roughly 1/4 the size. This sRaw file format is [...]
What is your depth of field (DOF) preview button for? Answered here!
I have had this question asked to me many times and it has been on my list of things to talk about for quite some time. There are a great deal of Digital SLR (DSLR) photographers out there who have probably never used it, or even havn’t even noticed it!
Basically, the depth of field (DOF) [...]
What is camera ISO? Help with digital ISO with this simple guide – Digital and film ISO explained
ISO is fundamentally the sensitivity at which your cameras sensor reacts to the light when you open the shutter.
ISO is measured in a scale (On standard digital cameras) called ISO. ISO is the number indicating a digital camera sensors sensitivity to light, the higher the sensitivity, the less light is needed to make an exposure.
Exposure [...]
