The Bads, at the Old Mill, Napier, 15 July 2017
A crowd of about sixty people braved the wild weather to come out and see The Bads perform at the Old Mill last night.
The Miltones
On Friday 7 July 2017 The Miltones brought a stripped down version of their show to The Common Room in Hastings.
The world against the light
This is world of silhouettes: where shapes are more important than colours, and detail across the entire image is not required.
Old dog's new trick Pt I
Yesterday I learned a new trick in Lightroom to allow me to see my clipping areas, so I thought I would share it in a post.
The 7 things I do to every photo in Lightroom
I often get asked about where to start with processing photos in Lightroom, what things do you need to tweak to get the ball rolling, as it were. So this is my "secret sauce" that I apply to EVERY photo that I import into Lightroom, and with these 7 changes it normally takes a flat RAW image into something that I can see the potential in.
Gemma Ray at The Old Mill
A mini review of the gig by Gemma Ray at The Old Mill, 05 May 2017
The line that changed my photography for ever
One single comment on You Tube made me the photographer I am today.
Everything I know about photography, I learned from my guitar
I have been thinking about how we perceive learning a musical instrument (say a guitar) vs learning photography. Let me explain.
Size (& weight) matters: Fujifilm Part 1
It has been noticed by a few people that I have been shooting with a Fujifilm X-E2 recently, and I have been asked if I am moving to that system and ditching the Nikon system of cameras / lenses. So I thought I would write a little bit about why I have invested money in the Fujifilm system.
Scinde Building: B & A
After a discussion on the time spent processing photos, I thought I would throw up a quick before & after post showing the processing work involved in the first of my "Different Times, Different Light" images that I finished processing yesterday.
3 sides to the same (odd shaped) coin
It's been an interesting couple of weeks in my world of photography, and it culminated in 3 things landing on my doorstep within a couple of days of each other.
Does every photo need to be a work of art?
Not every photo has to be technically perfect or a work of art, some photos tell a story without the need for polish.