File under “guilty pleasures”, I’ve acquired a Canon EF 11-24mm after suffering many years of acute lens envy. I got mine in excellent condition, second-hand from MPB Photographic, at less than half the cost of new. So what is this lens for? Purpose The 11-24mm focal length is ultra wide, it’s the widest full frame…
When I published my original video, 5 Tips that Transformed my Landscape Photography on YouTube, covering 5 things that I considered key in raising the standard of my landscape photography I immediately started to worry that I’d missed some vital part of the jigsaw out. So here are another five things that I think are…
As a predominantly studio based Canon photographer, exposure compensation pretty much passed me by. I understood it would alter the way the camera metered a scene, but never quite grasped why I would use it when I could do the job manually, and in the studio that’s fine. Why bother? It was only when I…
Sometimes sharp focus front to back is not achievable straight out of the camera. Combining focus stacking and exposure blending to achieve vibrant realistic colours and sharp focus with Affinity Photo is much easier than you might think. The principles I explain here will work just as well in Adobe Lightroom/Photoshop and will deliver tack…
A couple of weeks ago I posted a video on YouTube in which I mentioned focus stacking. I’ve had a few questions about it and a friend mentioned that he intended to use a combination of DxO PhotoLab and Affinity Photo instead of my favoured workflow (for layer based editing) of Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop….
Just got back from a trip to the Costa del Luz, we found a fantastic location called Los Canos de Meca, a tiny village on the beach, our apartment was literally 50 metres from the waves. The point of the trip was to celebrate a friend’s 60th birthday. A momentous occasion embraced with enthusiasm by…
I’ve been shooting a lot of black and white images lately, using techniques ranging from infrared conversion to black and white with Silver Efex. For this who don’t already know Silver Efex is the black and white conversion plugin that comes as part of the Nik Collection. Black and White with Silver Efex I wanted…
