Archive for the ‘Technique’ Category

Hello! Keen followers on Facebook or Twitter will no doubt have noticed that last week I wrote a piece for Hello! magazine that went live on their website on Friday afternoon. It offers some pretty simple tips on how to improve your holiday photos, for those interested in reading the whole story the link is here.  

Ebooks are great, although I have to admit I´ve never really got in to the whole ebook thing, but here I am sitting on train flicking through a copy of the latest release from Andrew S Gibson, photographer and technical editor of the outstanding EOS Magazine. I think the reason I´ve not been downloading these digital books is because I travel so much it´s never easy to find the time, or the motivation to sit down and read, and when

After writing yesterdays blog post where I mentioned the discounts currently available on Lightroom I found out that ACDsee where also offering incredible discounts on there photo management software ACDsee Pro 5, I headed off and downloaded myself a free trial version. The first thing you will notice about ACDSee compared to either Adobe Lightroom or Aperture from Apple is the speed, ACDSee really does fly though the directories almost instantly displaying large raw files. ACDSee is, unlike Lightroom and Aperture, a

It may not sound like a very interesting topic when I start talking about Kelvins and the like but actually having just a little knowledge about what changing the colour temperature can do to an image can really make a big difference to your work. I´ll try to keep this as simple as possible. The fact is that not all light is the same colour, most of use will have noticed this, if not really thought too much about how

Todays digital cameras are overflowing with features in an attempt to make your shots better. The thing is that if you want the absolute best out of your shots you are really limiting yourself if you are only shooting your images in .jgp format. The alternative which gives you greater image quality is to switch your camera to shoot in a raw format. Raw formats give you more freedom when it comes to processing your images, it´s like having more

Yesterday I bored a fair few of you with a brief introduction to histograms, well here´s something a little lighter to digest. Now while many photographers go on and on about histograms and checking them as you shoot there is actually (in my opinion) something better and much simpler to understand. It´s name is highlight alert (at least that´s what its called on my camera, your´s may have a different name. Don´t ask me where that setting on your camera

I´m currently on my way in to the deepest darkest tribal regions of Northern India, probably moving very slowly and on an uncomfortable bus, but what to do, huh? So not wanting to suffer on my own, I´m giving you something a little geeky today, but I hope it´ll help some of you understand more about digital photography. A digital photograph is made up of small dots of colour, it may sound odd but each dot will be made up