Hunting for beauty and balance, camera in hand
As my return to deliberate photography gathers pace (by deliberate I mean where I go out with a specific camera to look for compositions, as opposed to happening to have my phone with me and taking snapshots now and again when something catches my eye), it's been interesting to note some other habits returning. Predominantly,… Continue reading But There’s Nothing Else Quite Like It
From the title, this might sound like a very basic beginners article. But I wanted to explore and lean into how I use AutoFocus (AF) not so much as a guide for others, but to understand how it influences my favoured style of photography, and vice versa. Here's the basic process, and why it looks… Continue reading How I Focus With An AutoFocus Digital Camera
My initial forays into photography were via phone cameras. Back then, some 16 or 17 years ago, I knew nothing about cameras really, other than you needed to press the button to capture the picture. From some phone manual or other I found early on that holding the shutter button part way down locked the… Continue reading The Most Important Photography Lesson I’ve Learned
I use Google Photos as a back up most of our family photos, of which 99.9% are taken with my phone. As my storage was close to the limit, Google was trying to help me remove photos that I might not want anymore, and one of the groups of files it selected was "blurry photos".… Continue reading Blurry Photos – And When To Not Delete Them
I admit that I'm a sucker for making photographs with an isolated subject, and shallow depth of field that accentuates the sharp focus of the object even more, and many, probably most, of my photographs fit this profile. However, I only like sharpness up to a point. When it starts too look too clinical, too… Continue reading Focus Is Overrated
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