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jasonrow wrote a new post, A Look at 500px for Showcasing your Images 5 days, 22 hours ago

Most of us know and enjoy Flickr, it has been around for around 9 years now, a veritable lifetime in internet years. Whilst a massive and popular site, Flickr is perhaps not the best way these days to showcase […]

jasonrow wrote a new post, Icebergs: Photographing the Ice Giants 1 week, 6 days ago

Icebergs hold and intense fascination for many of us. These behemoths of the sea are both strikingly beautiful yet as the the Titanic disaster one hundred years ago shows us, they are also deadly. The iceberg that […]

jasonrow wrote a new post, How to Get Great Prints from your Digital Darkroom 1 week, 6 days ago

One of the great joys of digital photography is the ability to quickly and simply produce large, stunning prints from the comfort of your own home, without the need for a darkroom and the associated chemistry. All […]

jasonrow wrote a new post, A Brief History of Canon 2 weeks, 1 day ago

In a recent article we took a look at the history of Nikon cameras, from their early beginnings to the international brand it is today. Perhaps, Nikon’s biggest rival in recent decades has been Canon, and in many […]

jasonrow wrote a new post, Do You Follow These Best Practices When Buying a Secondhand Camera? 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Whilst the price of digital cameras has fallen dramatically over the last ten years, in the current economic climate, even some base models may be out of financial range fro some people. The good news is that the […]

jasonrow wrote a new post, A Brief History of Nikon 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Today, we are spoilt for choice – there are an incredible number cameras for us to choose from. What has remained fairly constant however is the manufacturers of those cameras. Although there are a few newer […]

jasonrow wrote a new post, Photoshop Tutorial: How to Alter Perspective in Your Photographs 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Perspective control lenses are as vital to the architectural photographer as their cameras, the ability to control converging verticals in this particular field of photography is a given. For most of us, however, […]

jasonrow wrote a new post, How to Get Great Photo Effects With Camera Shutter Speed 1 month ago

Shutter speed is one of the three pillars of the exposure triangle along with aperture and ISO. It is also one of the fundamental ways that we can control the creative look of our images. It is a vital part of our […]

jasonrow wrote a new post, How to Recreate These 3 Popular Photographic Filters in Photoshop 1 month, 2 weeks ago

‘The best laid plans of mice and men’ as the old adage goes – how many times have you set you camera up to take that spectacular scene in front of you only to realize it could look even better with a filter over […]

jasonrow wrote a new post, How to Photograph Reflections for Awesome Results 1 month, 2 weeks ago

They can be beautiful, surreal, abstract or a combination of all three, reflections are a powerful way convey emotion or provoke thought in your images. In this article we are going to take a look at how to use […]

jasonrow commented on the post, How to Improve Your Cityscape Photographs 2 months ago

Hi Mike

Black and White works pretty much the same way but it really depends on what you want to photograph in your city. If it’s modern architecture, then strong defined shadows and blue skies with nice […]

jasonrow wrote a new post, How to Improve Your Cityscape Photographs 2 months, 1 week ago

A dramatic cityscape is one of the powerful images we have in photography. It can convey a sense of wonder, power and beauty, often all three together. In this article we are going to take a look at how to shoot […]

jasonrow wrote a new post, You’re Probably Not Using This Camera Function to Its Full Potential 2 months, 1 week ago

It’s easy to take a lot of camera functionality for granted. But only a few years ago, much of what we have today was on the wish lists of photographers everywhere.

Autofocus is one of those things. In less […]

jasonrow wrote a new post, Sharpen Your Images With Some Useful Photoshop Techniques 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Sharpening your images is a bit of a science and there are quite a few aspects that need to be considered. You can sharpen for printing, for web maybe for display on an iPad. On top of that, different resolution […]

jasonrow wrote a new post, What Gear You Need to Pack for Wildlife Photography 3 months ago

Wildlife photography is perhaps one of the most evocative and yet difficult areas of our art to master. Great wildlife photographs are a wonderful addition to anyone’s portfolio and will illicit positive comments […]

jasonrow wrote a new post, 4 (Possibly Uncomfortable) Predictions On The Future of Photographic Technology 3 months, 1 week ago

The past 15 or so years have seen a seismic change not only in photographic technology but technology in general. Back in the late 90’s if I had said we would all be taking pictures on high resolution digital […]

jasonrow wrote a new post, A Guide to Creating Mood in your Images 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Moody photographs, we all love them, but how can we take them ourselves? I guess first we need to know what mood means, it’s a pretty abstract concept after all. The dictionary defines it as “Inducing or […]

jasonrow wrote a new post, Noise In Your Images? Use These Easy Strategies to Improve Your Noisy Photographs 3 months, 3 weeks ago

It is perhaps the bane of the photographers life, the dreaded image noise that has the ability to ruin the look of a well composed picture. Whilst modern cameras have much improved sensors and algorithms, there is […]

jasonrow wrote a new post, Beware of Cheap Lenses: Five Common Issues 4 months ago

“You pays your money, you takes your chances,” as the old adage goes. It perhaps perfectly sums up the end result of buying a cheap lens. Whilst you might get conceivably get a great lens, the chances are that by […]

jasonrow wrote a new post, Revitalize your Old Photos With These 12 Effective Strategies 4 months, 2 weeks ago

As I was looking through my Aperture catalogue earlier this month, it struck me that like many of yourselves, I have a huge library of older images that are crying out for a few modern photo editing techniques on […]