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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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Size Matters?

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Jul 12 2015

Fairly recently there seems to have been a significant swapping of meaty DSLR (or indeed film) cameras for smaller, more compact, lighter and also mirrorless cameras. The comments read on Facebook and camera reviews all seem to contain the same theme. This generally hints at: “oh, my back”, or “can’t be doing lugging all this around” Friends and photo colleagues of mine have recently made the change, opting for Fuji, Olympus and others, just to get that weight down. Now – this might be because some of us are getting older and/or it might be because put simply, technology is […]

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