Back in those innocent days when I shot only with a humble Sony camera phone, captured everything in colour, and my processing workflow consisted just of plugging the phone into my PowerBook and downloading the images, I had little idea about image format. Some years later, once I'd already been happily photographing JPEGs with my… Continue reading Why I’m A JPEG Junkie
Month: June 2020
Flickr – How I’m Using It Today
Back in February I wrote about how I was going to double my efforts with Flickr. A fair amount has happened since then - personally and globally - so here's an update on how I'm using Flickr today, based on the five points in my previous post. 1. Linking photos to the Flickr original on… Continue reading Flickr – How I’m Using It Today
One Frame #11
How I Stop My Head Exploding – Narrowing The Photography Obsession
The world is a vast place. It's impossible for any one person to follow any more than a tiny fraction of the subjects, developments and information that's constantly changing. The same reasoning applies even once we choose a single topic. Let's say, photography, for example. The number of styles of photography, equipment available, and even… Continue reading How I Stop My Head Exploding – Narrowing The Photography Obsession
The Best £15 You Can Spend On Your DSLR
My first DSLR was a used 2009 Pentax K-x, in 2014. At this point I'd already been shooting film SLRs a couple of years and had fallen for a number of vintage manual aperture, manual focus lenses, like the peerless Takumars, and the Helios 44 series. In researching DSLRs, I was delighted to discover that… Continue reading The Best £15 You Can Spend On Your DSLR




