It´s been far to long since my last post so I wanted to make this an interesting one, and decided you deserved a little more than a blog update and that I should give you something to get your teeth into, so I thought we´d having a look at available light. Available light usually refers to sunlight, but can technically refer to other light source that is, uhum, available. Lets get right into it. All light be it from the sun,
Read more... →One thing I love to shoot is portraits, they can tell you so much not just about the actual people in the image but also about the surrounding community. Location portraiture doesn´t have to include involve big fancy flash units, and umbrellas, although I often add a spot of flash to fill the shadows in the subjects face. I normally like to light the image with natural light as much as possible as with this photo below. The beauty of location
Read more... →Anyone who´s taken photos in Asia would have probably come across the peculiar posses that many subjects seem to adopt as soon as you lift your camera. In China and Burma its the ´2 finger peace sign and cheesy grin´ pose, where as in India its the ´ridged, stare directly at the camera and look as serious as possible´ pose. As a photographer I have to overcome this, to get the subject to relax and feel comfortable to produce more natural looking
Read more... →Let me first start by saying that, as with every one of my blog posts, this is my personal opinion. If you think my photos suck there really is no need to read on, however if your interested in what I believe makes a great photo, then read away. There are 3 basic guidelines that make a good image great. A great photo should: 1. Have a theme or message that it communicates. For me an image that has no
Read more... →In my recent posts I’ve included a fair few black & white images, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to share with you my post processing work-flow and how I converted just one of my raw files into lovely Black & white image. This image was shot at the kumbh mela just this morning and I decided I wanted to process it into a black & white image. So in the develop module of Lightroom the first thing I
Read more... →Over the last couple of months I’ve been shooting more & more black & white photos and I’ve learnt something, something that I wanted to share. I use the expression ‘shooting black & white photos’ not because I actually set my camera up to take a black & white image but because I’ve now got into the habit to compose the image with the knowledge that the resulting image is going to be converted to Black & White. Instead of
Read more... →I’m still in Varanasi and couldn’t be happier to be here. But no trip to Varanasi would be complete without a sun rise boat trip on the Ganges. I’ve done 3 already, and may squeeze in one more before I leave. It’s a great way to witness the the old city and the light is simply superb (have I mentioned that before..?). Inspired by a shot I took back in Calcutta of a rickshaw puller (link here) I thought I’d
Read more... →Well I’ve made it to Bangladesh and what can I say apart from its crazy here, so intense, everywhere I go I’m literally surrounded by locals staring at me. Everyone is friendly, too friendly perhaps. Most of them don’t speak English but those that do are very proud to show it. ‘What’s your name?’…. ‘where you go?’. Its nice to come back to the hotel to relax and get away from the hustle and bustle. I was actually woken up
Read more... →Next months wallpaper comes with a free lesson about Henri Cartier-Bresson’s the decisive moment. If you’ve not heard of Henri Cartier-Bresson, shame on you and get Goggling. So here’s the steps I took to create Novembers wallpaper. First of all I found my background, a plain weathered wall with boxes stacked up at one end – nothing too exciting but it caught my attention, on what was a rather slow day in Phuket before the festival began. So I’ve got
Read more... →This technique is probably one of the best ways to improve photography, so forget that new lens, or a new body with 11fps, and think more about what’s going on in the frame. Having a frame within a frame (if your not sure what I’m talking about check out the examples below, you’ll soon catch up) not only focuses attention on a particular area of an image but also adds physical depth to the shot. It forces the view to
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