New Look Photography Website Launched

Hi all, huge thanks for the continued support of my photography blog. As most of my regular readers my work as a photographer is for ever changing, one day shooting fashion the next landscape and location work. This being the case I decided to update my main photography website and in doing so incorporate my blog and website together. What does this mean? Simply, from today I will no longer be posting any new article on here, I will however be posting them over on my blog on my website. However...

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How to Reduce Light Stops Entering Camera by Using F-Numbers

A few people have asked me about the correlation between the actual camera settings the F-Number on the camera and the actual available amount of light entering the camera or F-Stop, and how to know which F-Number to use to reduce the light by a certain amount of light. So rather than try to write a description about the numbers I decide to draw up a chart. Please feel free to download this chart for your own use, and if you do wish to share it, please credit me. Thanks How to use the...

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What is the difference between TimeLapse and HyperLapse Photography?

After posting about doing some TimeLapse photography and my test shots, I had a few people ask me what is the difference between Timelapse and HyperLapse. So I thought I would answer them in a post, so here goes. I will start by briefly explaining what the two are in their own right, and hopefully you will be able to see the difference. What is TimeLapse Photography? I will start by showing you a simple example of a TimeLapse sequence As you can see the movement in this shot is done...

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Experimenting with Steel Wool Photography

As its that time of year again, and the nights are drawing in and the clocks have changed. I thought I would have a bit of a play with something I have never tried before. Shooting with long exposure steel wool, and I think the results for my first try are not too bad. I will play around with it a bit more and add my creative spark (lol) to it and I know its something I am going to love playing around with. So here are my first few attempts Not too bad for my first attempt. But a few...

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Why your Mobile Phone is not as good as a Real Camera

Being the photographer that I am, I get a lot of people asking me what type of camera they should get, and more often in todays climate, why should they even buy a camera at all. Especially when their mobile phone has a camera and it has a massive? 21 mega pixels, where as a DSLR may only have 16 mega pixels. On the face of it, you may think they are right. Surely having 21 mega pixles or 21 million pixels is better than only having 16 mega pixels or 16 million pixels!! The answer is a very simple...

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What does the F Stand for in F Number and F Stop?

The F in F Number, F Ratio or F Stop stands for Focal Length.  (it should be noted that in terms of F Stop the F can also just be Focal when viewing light not through a lens) Focal length is simply the size of a lens or a given point on a tele-photo lens such as 50mm, 100mm, 300mm. What are F Number / F Ratio and F Stop? Although many people use the these to mean the same thing,  they are in fact different things all together. To put it simply they are. F Number / F Ratio F...

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Free Lightroom Presets

What are Lightroom Presets?  As you will already know if you use photo editing software such as lightroom, getting the exact levels right to be able to make a photo look how you want can be tough, this is where presets come in. At the click a button you can make a shot more moody, more cheery, brighter, and any number of things. Here is a sample of some of the stuff you can do with presets. the above samples show what can be done using presets, removing the guess work from how...

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