Camera technology: tools for art
“Photos from digital cameras today have far better detail than a photo printed from film ever could be.” This claim from an optical engineer is […]
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Take your camera off ‘automatic’: Shooting digital negatives
This is part of a series of blogs to help camera users develop skills, taking their cameras off ‘automatic’. Digital cameras today are generally capable […]
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Taking control of ISO
ISO in analogue Back in the days of film, a photographer had to choose a specific film sensitivity (ISO speed) to load into her camera, […]
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Some tips to improve your photos
Would you like to improve your photography? Go on! It doesn’t necessarily require much expensive equipment, or to wait for your next voyage to a […]
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Creating interesting macros
Flowers and other parts of nature make excellent subjects in photography. First of all, flowers don’t need payment as models, and they tend not be […]
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Street snaps
One genre of photography is street photography. At its most basic, street photography is taking shots of people as they go about their daily business. […]
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Art is political
During the Open Studios last week, a visitor stated to me, that my art is not political. My surprised expression might have been the reason […]
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Writing with light
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to spend a few hours talking about cameras and photographs with the participants in one of my ‘tips and tricks’ […]
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Just one lens….
A good photograph, for me, is all about ‘the glass’. By this I mean that the lens is crucial to a good photo. An image […]
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Macro and micro
Micro: looking closely. Sometimes when I am out taking photographs of flowers and plants, I think of Georgia O’Keeffe and her famous close-up paintings of […]
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