Hunting for beauty and balance, camera in hand
Using DSLRs, I oscillate pretty evenly between Auto Focus (AF) and Manual Focus (MF) lenses. And even with my three AF lenses, I use them MF a significant part of the time too. Because many of my photographs are close up - and often at the closest focus of the lens - I often use… Continue reading Focusing Tips – How To Rock Out For Optimum Focus Accuracy
With anything in life, I think it’s important to find your own frequency. By this I mean engaging in an activity not so little that you’re always craving more and feeling frustrated, and not so much that you’re often feeling overwhelmed and in a constant state of scrambling to keep up. Discovering that "just enough"… Continue reading The Importance Of Finding Your Frequency
As a photographer, I like to think that every photograph I make is for a reason. More specifically, that reason is that I felt the scene and composition was interesting and beautiful enough to be worth capturing - for myself, and to share with others. But despite this lofty expectation, of course there are many… Continue reading The Camera Testing Trap – Have You Fallen Victim?
It’s a long held belief of mine (and not just as a photographer) that the beauty of life is in the tiny details. So for as long as I’ve been photographing with intention (since around 2006 with Sony camera phones), I’ve been drawn to photographing up close and intimate. This is a short series on… Continue reading How To Get Up Close And Intimate (Part V) – De-glassing A Teleconverter
A term often used by those interested in the latest photography technology is “out resolve”, as in “this digital sensor will out resolve the lens”. As I understand it, in layman’s terms it means the digital sensor is capable of capturing a higher level of resolution detail than the lens is able to project on… Continue reading When The Camera Out Resolves The Photographer
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