Archive for the 'Technique' Category

Having a dabble with little planets…

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

I’ve been meaning to have a go at doing a little planet for a while. Finally I got around to it with “Planet Catalunya”. Quite pleased with that, I’m going to try a few more…

Lightroom 2: what’s missing?

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Someone always comes up with what they wanted to see - we want it all! But one thing I think I would have liked to see this time would be more advanced cropping, including some lens correction options. Specifically, being able to correct barrel/pincushion and trapezoid distortion would be most welcome. I was collecting together […]

Lighting and its importance.

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

As everyone knows, photography is 10% photographer, 10% equipment and 80% lighting (or something like that) proving again the 80-20 rule I suppose. Then again, lighting’s 80% can largely be answered by equipment or more precisely its correct application. Anyway, the point is that there’s not much difference between shots with an SLR and a good […]

Trying out some lighting with my most reliable model

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

So, because all my friends are too chicken to pose for me, I decided I’d have to do a bit of tethered shooting to try some lighting out. This is a first time I’ve used EOS Capture on the Mac, and it’s quite workable. Pretty good, even, if I wanted to get effusive. All these shots […]

SimCam: Film and Digital Camera Simulator

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

Photohead, which for some reason I’ve never noticed, have got The SimCam, in which you can play with the your exposure on a virtual camera. The (side) effects you can see include camera shake, depth of field, grain. Pity they didn’t include a page with all three of shutter speed, aperture and ISO. That’s a […]