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Unedited Images Rediscovered
27th November 2022 - 0 comments
While browsing for some image files recently I came across a folder containing a couple of dozen picures. I was sure I'd taken more than that.
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Analogue Magic
04th November 2022 - 0 comments
One of the fascinations of analogue, or film, photography was watching an image appear in front of your eyes on the paper in a developing tray.
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Tripods – A Personal History
23rd August 2022 - 0 comments
Tripods are very useful accessories and in some cases indispensable for some types of photography. Some models are more suitable than others and Ive had a few over the years.
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Bird Photography (On a Budget)
12th August 2022 - 0 comments
Not everyone can afford extreme telephoto lenses for bird photography. Lower cost gear is perfectly effective and getting the best out of it will improve you as a photographer.
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Black and White – What We Can Learn From the Old Days
13th July 2022 - 0 comments
It's simple to produce a monochrome image these days. Creating a good one and realising your vision is another matter.
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Mentoring
02nd July 2022 - 0 comments
When you start out in photography, or any other activity for that matter, it helps enormously to have honest and constructive feedback.
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Red, White and Blue
26th June 2022 - 0 comments
Creating pure white backgrounds in a studio, for portraits or flowers for example, makes for clean old images. So why do we hate white skies?
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Picture Captions
22nd June 2022 - 0 comments
Adding captions to your images is one of those tasks that takes some discipline but is worth it in the long run.
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Orwochrome
03rd June 2022 - 0 comments
Orwochrome was a cheap transparency film from behind the Iron Curtain and had a unique colour signature.
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Home Printing – Curse or Celebration
15th May 2022 - 0 comments
Home printing is the final stage of your creative photographic process that's under your control,. Technical issues or cost unfortunately mean not everyone can enjoy it.
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Restoring Old Photos
05th May 2022 - 0 comments
I've talked about scanning old images before, and while many will require little post production tweaks some require much more wok to regain their former glory.
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Apocalypse Now
25th April 2022 - 0 comments
Replacing skies is one of the latest fads with some of the newest software making it an effortless task, but the idea is almost as old as photography itself.
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Texture Screens and Overlays
20th April 2022 - 0 comments
Adding textures to images is a creative tool and isn't something new, so why not personalise your work.
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Ask the Family
14th April 2022 - 0 comments
Cast your mind back nearly fifty years to a BBC early evening television show. I was an intellectual game show but it could inspire photography.
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Film Scanning (Part III)
30th March 2022 - 0 comments
So far I've looked at scanning colour film. In the third and final part of this mini series I'll look at black and white.
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Film Scanning (Part II)
13th March 2022 - 0 comments
You've got your film originals ready to scan, so let's look at how you can get the best out of them.
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Film Scanning (Part I)
09th March 2022 - 0 comments
I have a large collection of images on film, mostly transparencies, which I'm in the process of digitising. Why might you want to scan images in the first place?
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Photobooks
13th January 2022 - 0 comments
Electronic storage is inexpensive with external hard drives and multiple cloud based solutions available so there's plenty of choice for different needs. Don't your best images deserve more, though?
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Panoramics
29th December 2021 - 0 comments
Panoramic images are great for showing wide vistas. Should you stitch or crop? And what about older images?
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Rating Your Images
06th December 2021 - 0 comments
Using star ratings is a useful exercise when sorting and editing images. If you haven't included it in your workflow it's time to give it a go.
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