Living only 20 miles from the Morgan Motor Company factory, based in the Malverns, I thought it time to attend one of their factory tours. A fascinating 2 hour tour takes in each stage of the build of these cars. It’s amazing to see the craftmanship that goes in to building a Morgan. Anyway, I...
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Wedding Photographer Fail
You have to feel for this photographer. Who said wedding photography was easy !! By the way that’s about £10K’s + worth of gear just ruined
Corporate Photography – IBM Regatta 2010
Lucky enough to be invited by IT & Voice Managed Services company Niu , to take some corporate photographs from IBM’s Regatta for 2010. This was a 2 day event, with races taking place from Port Solent, Portsmouth, across to Cowes, Isle of White. An excellent couple of days, with some great guys from Niu...
Rules of a Third – Portrait Photography
I’m hoping you have heard of the Rules of a Third, to help you compose Landscapes etc. Well don’t forget to try it on Portraits too. On to portrait one as an example. Here you can see the eyes are on the top 1/3 horizontal, whilst the nose is on the right 1/3 vertical. This...
Shoot Upside Down for a change
Notice anything different about this Portrait ? What if I was to say I took it upside down ! No, I’m not going mad. Remember those big square cameras, called medium format ? Well one of the traits of shooting with some medium format cameras used to be the fact you would see the image...
Car Photography
Jaguar XK photographed at Cheltenham racecourse. Ever noticed that just after the sun has disappeared for the day, that you get beautiful reflections on your car ? The whole sky is acting as a huge lightbox & providing wonderful light to photograph by. The alternative is to find an overcast day, where the clouds are...
Podcasts for Photography
OK, you trawl the web & find lots of interesting info about photography, but sometimes you just wish you could watch some video clips on your Ipod, or listen to a podcast whilst travelling. Well have a little look here on iTunes :- Featured Podcasts about Photography . Now I haven’t listened to many yet,...
iPhone App – Photography – ToonPaint
You’ve got to love the Apps on the iPhone . This latest one is a simple 1 step process to take any existing photo, or take one there & then, & convert it into a cartoon. The iPhone application in question is ToonPaint So a quick play produced the following examples from some of my...
Gloucestershire Portrait Photographer – Favourite Photos from 2009
2009 was a great year where I was lucky enough to photograph some wonderful people, plus even had time to shoot some landscapes. I’ve chosen a small selection below. If you have a favourite please feel free to add a comment at the end. So here goes ………. #1 – Isobel #2 – Ashleigh #3...
Kodak Zi8 Sample video at 60 frames per second
I love the simplicity of my £130 HD Video camera, the Kodak Zi8. Not only does it shoot at 1080p, if you drop to 720P there is a mode to shoot at 60 fps. With the snow on the ground today, it was too good an opportunity to miss testing the 60fps, by taking the...