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Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged?

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Oct 04 2016

Photography is what I do. More specifically landscape photography is what folk know me for, and yes, it is my favourite type (genre?) of photography. When I started off I followed every book that Charlie Waite wrote on the subject, avidly, and I have to say I learned a hell of a lot. One of these aspects was/is composition. The ‘guideline’ of thirds (I try to avoid the use of the word ‘rule’) was an enormous help in my honing my compositional skills.  The use of key elements to pull the eye in and around, the careful use of colour, […]

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Shooting the Rapids…

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Dec 02 2015

I am frequently asked by folk which is my favourite topic/subject for photographing. There is no straight answer to this BUT…I do love shooting waterfalls. Always have, always will. Now, there are two fairly powerful and differing schools of thought about these. To photograph them in a blur, or to capture every splash and drop? I have always maintained that this is the choice of the photographer; neither is right and neither is wrong. If I am judging a shot there is NO WAY I would judge it down purely on the basis of my preference. A well composed, technically sound […]

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Into the sun…..

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Aug 07 2015

I may have covered this one before, but I was out wandering around the Brecon Beacons yesterday just doing what I call a ‘potter shoot’, pottering round just looking. One of the locations I visited was Pontsticill Reservoir, a long strip of water roughly north south orientated. It suddenly occurred to me just how much more dramatic the shot into the sun seemed. Not that there is necessarily anything wrong with the shot towards Pen y Fan with the sun behind me but…………..it just didn’t seem to have the ‘zing’ or just plain mood of the shot towards the sun. […]

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Experiment – go on!

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Jun 06 2015

Every so often my photography goes off at a tangent, or to put it another way, I have a go at something I had at no time, ever in my life, planned to do. This might be because I have spotted an unplanned event or because I just want to see what else I and my box of tricks can pull off. If it works I might share it. If it is an epic fail I might not. BUT, the point is, I had a go and if I pull it off, to an acceptable degree, then I will diary it […]

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Never fear, Kelvin’s here…

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Mar 13 2015

If you don’t already know Kelvin, he could be a best friend when you are out taking photographs. Kelvin is the measurement of colour temperature and is a digital camera’s way of handling the ambient light around you to give a balanced output that matches pretty well what you see. The white balance function on DSLR cameras holds a common set of ‘presets’ from Auto through to K (Kelvins!). By dialing the white balance to K you are NOW allowing yourself total control over the camera’s white balance, and not allowing the camera to give you one of its preset […]

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The long or the short of it?

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Feb 01 2015

Landscape photography – I started off years ago with the broad assumption that for all landscape photography we had to use a wide angle lens. I confess I am not too sure where this assumption originated from but it was there, in my head. Wrong! Landscapes are not at all easy to photograph in the sense that we are seeking to capture and convey a deep sense of what attracted us to the location in the first place and want to share that wonder with others. True the landscape could stretch out before us, or contain a sweeping oxbow river […]

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