At the end of 2024, I had a brief but cathartic flirtation with film photography again. There was a very personal reason for this, when my father passed away, he left an old Minolta X300. This was the same camera model that I had used in my early days of photography.
I had shot film before, however, it has been at least 20 years since I had shot a roll of film, and so this is more about what I had forgotten than new things that I learned.
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Long exposure photography can be applied to many genre of photography besides the landscape photography where this technique is more commonly used. In this article, we have put together a bunch of tutorials for you to get an understanding of long exposure photography and improve your skills.
If as a beginner you are making lots of mistakes, then the chances are you are shooting often and learning lots. Today we are going to look at why you should embrace your photography fails.
If you have followed my ramblings for a while here at Light Stalking, you will know there is one technique that I really like as a way to improve creativity. That technique is to restrict yourself. That can be done in different ways. Using a single prime lens is one that I talked about recently. […]
There is something I have observed, particularly with newcomers to photography. That is, they will often try to capture everything in a scene rather than isolate a subject. That trait tends to diminish as we become more experienced, but there is another thing we often do, concentrate on the subject as a whole rather than […]
Film photography has never really gone away. Sure, it’s declined massively since the arrival of digital, however these days increasing numbers of newer photographers are trying their hand at film photography. I have written several articles about shooting film here at Light Stalking, yet I have realized that there may well be an entire section […]
