Since I was working just up the road, I had a quick visit to the National Railway Museum at Shildon today, where the ‘Mallard 75 – Great Goodbye’ event was definitely drawing in crowds of enthusiasts. I decided to use the crowds as added interest rather than trying to avoid them and used 10 stops [...]
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With the clocks changing last weekend and the autumn nights drawing in, now seemed a good time to describe a technique for balancing light trails, ambient light and flash to create some eye catching action shots. Balancing three very different light sources in one image might sound like a near impossible task, with many variables [...]
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I’ve been tinkering over the last couple of weeks with a prototype programmable camera controller based around the Arduino system. If you haven’t come across it before, Arduino is a flexible, open source electronics prototyping platform which is well documented and relatively easy to get started with, making it a solid base for this kind [...]
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I was interviewed a couple of weeks back for part of the Photo Expert section in Digital SLR Photography Magazine which covers several different aspects of Night Photography. The overall article’s well worth a read, pulling together different techniques and tips (of which my input is just one small part). The overall advice includes shooting [...]
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With the late summer nights starting to draw in, my thoughts are turning to planning my first night time photography trips of the autumn season. With that in mind, now seems a good time to describe a technique I use for metering ambient light for low light landscapes and getting the overall exposure just right. [...]
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I’ve just been re-reading Northscape’s colour management tutorial as a reminder on a couple of points and would highly recommend it to any photographer, new or experienced, who’s interested in keeping tight control over colour all the way from capture to print. It’s a fantastic, clear and concise summary of what can be a fearsome [...]
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(I originally wrote this tutorial for my website a number of years back but it’s still one of my favourite techniques which can create some powerful images when used on the right subject…) I first experimented with this toning technique on a shot of a beech tree from Castlehead Wood, near Keswick and have since [...]
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