360 Photography Guide I started to play with 360° Photography around five years ago when I created a project called Funky Frankwell to promote small businesses in the Frankwell district of Shrewsbury. To differentiate the project I created 360° images and in some cases virtual tours of each business so that viewers could take a…
Who Moved my Narrative? Narrative in Photography is not dead, it’s simply that the ways we come across photography rarely encourage it. Is social media even capable of sustaining narrative? This article is a bringing together of several seemingly unrelated strands I have been thinking about recently. Things that I have been doing in my…
This post is in part a response to an article on the United Nations of Photography blog on the photographic mid-life crisis. It’s (The post not the crisis) an interesting take on the industry today and the position career photographers find themselves in as they progress. That article addresses commissioned photographers in particular. I’d like…
Those of you who follow my Twitter account will know that I bought the Rokinon SP 14mm f/2.4 lens for Astrophotography a couple of weeks ago. Since when we’ve had more or less 100% cloud cover in the UK. C’est la vie! Astrophotography images will follow once I get back to Spain. Rokinon vs. Samyang…
The end to end Infrared Photography Guide demonstrates how to do infrared photography with DSLR or Mirrorless cameras. We’ll discuss camera conversion and technique as well as processing techniques using Lightroom, Photoshop and the Nik Collection. Infrared Light The light and colours that we can see, visible light, occurs on various wavelengths contained within a…
In this post, I’m going to show how to go about setting up a photography website with WordPress including all of the steps you need to take for a successful launch. Including domain selection and registration, WordPress hosting selection, installing WordPress, choosing Core Plugins, WordPress Theme selection, SEO and Launching. Preparing to Set Up a…
Hot off the press, in fact, only announced today, there’s a new DxO RAW processing app. Aimed at Photoshop and Lightroom Classic users, this takes the RAW processing and de-noising capabilities that DxO have become rightly well known for and packaged them in a bundle that will integrate seamlessly into an Adobe Photoshop workflow. Special…
The HSL Tool in PhotoLab 4 is an improvement on the tool in version three and provides a very intuitive way of managing precise colour ranges across an entire image. Video This video shows how I used the tool to accentuate the autumn colours in an unprocessed RAW file. Disclaimer: This post contains links to…
Converting images to monochrome is never as straightforward as it might appear. In this post we look at methods of achieving the monochrome look and answer the question “Is Silver Efex Pro the best Black and White Photography Plugin ever?” First the disclaimer. I am affiliated with a few carefully selected companies whose products I…