Getting ready for a two week photo-shoot in Devon I was putting some of the equipment together and found the ND graduated filters and holder which has been there for a while. Checking out reviews of these square filters you find that there are divergent opinions on the subject of vignetting at wide focal lengths (say 18mm) so here are a few thoughts having tried and got some strange results. First, the filters are fine plastic or glass (if you have the money). We have tried out Cokin and Hitech standard (not the pro versions). We found that Cokin made …
Camera Batteries on our Workshops
When you book a workshop with us we remind you to come with full batteries – here is the low-down why this is so important, since batteries running out during a workshop can be very embarrassing for you. Our outdoor courses are entirely practical so your camera is being used all the time for 4 hours. This means it will be switched on and you will be going torough the menus and other settings intensely in a way that you probably have never used it before. Consequently the drain on camera batteries in our courses is far more than you …
Where to buy Photographic Film in London ?
We were asked this question over the phone last week, and we didn’t know the answer ! We have taught exclusively digital for such a long time we were out of touch and Jessops are closed down except for one branch in London. So we decided it might be useful for those of you still using film who are passing by…
Focus Tips for Great Flower Photography
Which Focus Selection is Best for Flower Photography? – here are a few focus tips Summer is great for photographing flowers. Colour just pops out at you everywhere – in the garden or local parks. This is the season to be photographing flowers and this summer the weather has been warm, dry and sunny. What a great way to spend a few hours in warm sunshine and heady summer scents. I usually take a 100 mm macro prime lens when I photograph flowers. This lens is pin sharp in its details and if you take a tripod too, you can …
Update – migrating from Aperture to lightroom
Adobe have updated us with some instructions on how to make the migration – unfortunately the link given was more of an advert for Lightroom than teh hoped for a script to do a conversion. So the news isn’t so good since this is probably all you are going to get.