For those of us that inhabit Northern climes, the winter is fast approaching. I am sure many may put their cameras into hibernation for the dark days, preferring the comfort of the digital darkroom to the harsh realities of the freezing conditions, for some, outside. However, by putting your feet up and ploughing through the […]
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It happens to us all at some time or another, we arrive at a wonderful location to find that the light is flat and uninspiring and the resultant images are somewhat disappointing. So what can we do about it? Well these days, it is quite simple to to create a striking image from something quite […]
Fans of the BBC series, Top Gear will recognize the Transfagarasen Pass as the greatest driving road in the world. It is a 93km stretch of alpine tarmac, ordered by the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1970, its construction cost the lives of 40 soldiers. It crosses the beautiful Fagaras mountains and at its highest […]
And now for something completely different, as Monty Python would say. Today we are going to have a little fun, testing your observation and powers of deduction by showing you and extreme close up part of three pictures, each with a brief description of how the picture was taken and what obstacles needed to overcome […]
In a previous article we looked at various things that you can do with multiple exposures. One of those things was focus stacking. Focus stacking is a technique where you can create a deep depth of field by combining 3 or 4 images with different focus points. There are a number of reasons as to […]
Although I have been driving for many years, I had never tried a 750 mile journey in one day and as it turned out, I didn’t get that far. By nine in the evening I had covered 650 miles from Cologne and was now on the Austrian/Hungarian border, some 100 miles from Budapest. I decided […]