When you start running a home business it can be difficult at first to get in the right frame of mind, so knowing a few tips and tricks can be very useful. If you are already running a home business and you feel you need a fresh approach, then these tips could help you, too.… Continue reading 5 Tips for running a successful Home Business
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The UV Filter, Is It Useful?
When You buy a new lens in store, one of the favourite up-sells is to offer you a UV filter. This comes with the warning that it could save your expensive new lens from damage if banged or dropped. They say it also has the added advantage of filtering out ultra violet light thus improving… Continue reading The UV Filter, Is It Useful?
The Photography Show 2016
Well that time has come again and as a photography fan, as always I was getting excited… The Photography Show 2016 was here and although I didn’t have anything specific I wanted to see or do this year, I still boarded the train on Tuesday morning like a little boy on his way to his… Continue reading The Photography Show 2016
Photoshop – The Brush Preset Picker
Brushes are the core component of many tools in the toolbox, and confident brush handling is essential for the effective application of these. You need to master brushes because this gives you many ways in which you can use and edit brushes will equip you with a whole new set of skills, and give you… Continue reading Photoshop – The Brush Preset Picker
Photoshop Layers – An Introduction
Layers are a powerful feature of photo editing software that allows you to work on one part of an image without making alterations to the rest of it. For someone starting out, the idea of using layers may seem a little intimidating. However once you get the hang of using layers you’ll wonder how you… Continue reading Photoshop Layers – An Introduction
Self Portrait
For this months Image I decided to test out The Sony a7ii’s performance in the studio and as I had just taken delivery of my new studio lights I thought it would be a great opportunity to try those out too. Next thing was to decide who the subject should be? Well seeing as it… Continue reading Self Portrait
Street Photography
“Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.”– Henri Cartier-Bresson A quote from one of my Photography hero’s and a man who’s images inspire and excite me. I can view Bresson’s images over and over and find a new magic… Continue reading Street Photography
Macro Photography
This week I received delivery of two extension tubes for my camera. Extension tubes connect to your camera between the body and the lens reducing the focusing distance and thus enabling you to use a normal camera lens for macro photography. For those of you who don’t know ‘Macro Photography’ is extremely close-up photography and it… Continue reading Macro Photography
Lilies
Last week one of my Wife’s Aunties brought her a bunch of flowers and in these flowers were some as yet unopened lilies. As the lilies began to bloom towards the end of the week I decided that getting a few images of these delightful flowers in all their glory would be an ideal project… Continue reading Lilies
Mobile Phone Photography
So I am writing this from a hotel room in Brighton. I am down here attending a three day conference and because of that I have travelled very light. That’s not to say I don’t have my camera with me, I did bring my Sony a5000 and a small 30mm lens. But I don’t have… Continue reading Mobile Phone Photography