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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How to do Timelapse (Time Lapse) Photography and what is an Intervalometer?

You may have heard about Timelapse Photography or you may not have. So I will start by telling you what it is. What is Timelapse Photography? Timelapse Photography is a similar technique to HDR photography, expect that rather than changing the exposure setting for each shot you change the time, and take a series of images over a set period of time with a fixed interval in between them. All shots have the same exposure settings, and the only changes are the physical changes to the subject in the...

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