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What do you look at or see?
What do you look at or see? Are you De-Sensitised? This is a personal observation of my experiences recently as an Exhibitor and at Exhibitions. The story behind this picture is that I was on a purposeful walk in conversation … Continue reading
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2019 DEVELOPING THE ART
Our Self Expression GCM’s plans for this year: That both Colin and myself take more images. Colin will be making more use of his film 5×4 camera as well as his film pinhole camera. Moving from no flash to … Continue reading
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What my eye sees
A short discussion on what the eye sees from a photographic point of view – this depends on the aspect ratio of the camera body as well as the camera lens field of view and the focal length of the … Continue reading
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Camera you have with you
There is a saying in photography that the best camera is the one that you have with you! I had never really thought about this before. I have often personally felt that I had wished I had one of my … Continue reading
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White balance and what it does
The question that gets asked time and time again, is: Which white balance setting should I use and why? The short answer is: It depends upon the lighting. To illustrate the difference between individual camera settings, we ventured forth to one … Continue reading
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Spot Metering
The Questions We would recommend using spot metering for a more accurate exposure! What is Spot Metering? Why Spot Meter a subject? So how do I do that? How can I work out the -6 stops of light? As per … Continue reading
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The how and why of reviews
Before we launch into our next review proper. I thought it would be good to give some further information about our review proceedures. We prefer to photograph real locations rather than test charts, this does mean that sometimes we photograph … Continue reading
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To ‘UV or not ‘UV’ ? That is the question.
There are lots of differing views on this subject. If you use Youtube there is a variety of videos which shows the pros and cons. So I can only answer this question from my many years of personal experience. I … Continue reading
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FX or DX sensor
My personal view on the pro and cons of the size of camera sensor in Nikon DSLR camera bodies. 1st comes the PRICE, which after all helps most of make our choice. The FX or full frame camera bodies are … Continue reading
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Quality of prints
As we draw to the end of another year, M and I were reviewing our achievements this last year, and we came round to the topic of how we have priced our images for sale. The reason this came up … Continue reading
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