After visiting the hugely impressive photography department at Falmouth, Nia and I went on to Lizard Point, the most southerly place on the British mainland.
Videocast #1: Graduated Neutral Density Filters
Quick Tip 8: Graduated Neutral Density Filters – An Essential
One of the most difficult things in photography is dealing with the wide exposure range that exists in many scenes.
Image Overload – A Short Review
It’s difficult to keep looking at contemporary images all day, everyday, year in year out and remain fresh all the time with the looking. Just recently I’ve been to a good number of exhibitions and at universities it’s now final show time.
Bert Hardy at St. Donats Art Centre
There’s a good exhibition on at the moment, it’s in St. Donats Art Centre that showcases the work of Bert Hardy and the time he spent for Picture Post in Tiger Bay, Cardiff, in the early 1950’s.
Brecon Beacons Course
Review of UK weather on 06/06/09
‘Through the morning and afternoon the wettest weather became focused across Wales and southwest England, where torrential rain and thunderstorms occurred across South Wales, east Cornwall and Devon. Across South Wales, the very heavy rain and thunderstorms occurred during the afternoon, particularly across the valleys.’
Source: BBC weather – review of UK
National Media Museum – Bradford
Industrial Landscapes of South Wales: 3
The third area we’ve taken students to recently is Trefil Quarry, on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park.
Industrial Landscapes of South Wales: 2
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Industrial Landscapes of South Wales: 1
We are really fortunate in South Wales to have such a variety of topographical features within a really small area. Continue reading
Laycock
We took a group of students to Laycock Abbey today, an essential for anyone interested in the history of photography.
Waterfall Course
A really committed group worked the falls today and produced some fine results. We visited two locations around Ystradfellte and thoroughly explored many possible ways to photograph water.
Quick Tip 7: Think in Series of Images
All too often we are searching for the ultimate shot, singular, instead of working with a series of photographs.
Club Competitions: Good or Bad?
Last night I gave a presentation on environmental portraiture to The Porthcawl and Pyle Photographic Society. During the evening a couple of questions were raised about how a judge would respond to a number of the images I was showing.
Chambre Hardman – At Last!
I was up in Liverpool over Easter and finally managed to get to Chambre Hardman’s studio at 59 Rodney Street.
Spring Walk at Manmoel
The first in a series of walks I’m running with Caerphilly CCBC has come and gone and we were furtunate to have a really fine spring day.
Waterfalls 1
New Equipment – Old Habits
For a long while now I’ve wanted a camera that I can carry around with me, isn’t heavy, has all the manual features I enjoy on a camera and compliments a lot of the long lens photography I’m currently involved with.
An Antidote to HDR
The vogue at the moment within photography is high dynamic range imaging (HDR) and whilst it has certain applications where it can function effectively it is, at the moment, over played. These images are an antidote to HDR and celebrate the subtle within photography.
Beat the Epson Printer Scam
I print using an Epson R2400 Stylus Printer, which has proved to be a really fine work horse over the years. The other day however, I was a little alarmed to see two red lights flashing in a way I’d never witnessed before and the printer completely unresponsive. When I tried to print I got a message telling me that “Parts inside your printer are at the end of their service lifeâ€