Harry Flashman
Dodging, Burning and Patching
Gustave Le Gray is not such a well known name as Daguerre, Nadar and Cartier-Bresson (mentioned a few weeks back). Some might even say...
Trials and Tribulations
What is professional photography really like? Is everyone a new Richard Avedon with a retinue of assistants and conferring with art directors? Or do...
Photographing stage performers
Stage photography is an exciting and different application of the art of photography. The results can be spectacular and make for wall art. But...
Watching the Birdie
A few thoughts about taking portraits
I wonder if you recall all those Polyfoto studios that were popular throughout Britain in the 1950s. They specialized...
Camera maintenance
My daughter’s first ‘real’ camera was purchased for her 14th birthday, and she is now ready to take ‘real’ photographs and not just ‘selfies’. The...
Fill-in flash and the Big D
Photography is really getting easier. Amateurs can now achieve results which were once the domain of the professional photographer, and fill-in flash is just...
DSLR use and abuse
DSLR stands for Digital Single Lens Reflex and is the follow on from “film” SLR’s. These days there are some situations where you need...
Never believe what you see
It used to be that people would claim “photographic proof” to demonstrate the veracity of something or other. How could you deny the existence...
Take the camera off “Auto” and use A and S
We are in the ‘automatic’ era. We drive automatic cars. We have automatic gate openers and remote controls on our television sets, so we...
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