Hunting for beauty and balance, camera in hand
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
Our recent conversation around how hard photography should be, reminded me how much I enjoy certain manual aspects of photography. One of those is manual focusing a lens. With a digital compact I'm quite happy to let the Auto Focus (AF) do the work. But with a DSLR, the pace and the motives are different.… Continue reading Why I Prefer Manual Focus (Even With An Auto Focus Lens)
My new (but 10 years old) Lumix FX38 isn't always great at focusing on small objects up close I've found, especially in the generally lower light beneath woodland canopies. It's more the size of the object (and the size of the focusing area of the camera) that causes problems, as I've found by putting my… Continue reading Focusing Tips – The Force Focus Trick
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