Category Archives: Photography

This is the first part of a tutorial that’ll show you how to improve “muddy” overcase photos. I’ve only scanned through it, it looks a little complicated but I’ve messed up exposure settings so many times this technique will be useful!

This is a technique that’ll make your photos that little bit more extra-ordinary!

In this Sunday Morning Photographer article, Mike Johnston talks about the manipulation and distortion of photographs by post-processing them in some way.
Anyway, poor Fred, not a nice experience for him!

After arriving in Galway shortly after 1pm on Saturday I wandered around the touristy spots of the city for an hour until joined by Niall, Daniel and Kevin in the local shopping centre where the World Press Photography Exhibition was displayed as I previously mentioned.
The exhibition was great! Photos(which you can see online too) were stunning and thought provoking, especially images of war-torn parts of the world. The photos were mounted on panels and set in the public walk ways between shops. Each panel had a short description and background information and while we were there large crowds huddled around all of them. I didn’t know there’d be nature and sports images on display but my favourite of the nature shots has to be this stunning photo of Chicago from Lake Michigan. The web version doesn’t do it justice as the image on display was so big!

Or how to increase contrast without blowing out all the detail! Good tutorial but the effect created may be too subtle for many. I like it!

It doesn’t seem like a year has passed, but the 4th of July is almost upon us again! A year ago I went down to Lake Michigan with my flatmates to watch the brightly lit spectacle overhead! Mark has lots of tips on photographing fireworks on his blog, so if you’re in the USA, have a great time this weekend!

The World Press Photo Contest this year is being exhibited in Galway until July 18th. I’ll be there at the weekend so it’d be impossible for me not to take a look around on Saturday morning!
See you there!

This article explores this question but I find myself disagreeing with some of the conclusions reached. Sure, it makes taking photos easier, and camera phones have changed society in numerous ways but most people still prefer to look at photos printed on nice quality paper and perform the social interaction that passing around photos enables. Maybe when we all have broadband and photo hosting and website building gets easier…
(via photography blog)

Hmm, ‘nother interesting article on Near Infrared Digital Photography: A Tutorial. Cool.

Steve’s Digicams have launched a new tech section and their July article goes in depth into the issue of megapixels. Are they worth it, what’s the downside of squeezing all those pixels into the same size sensor, etc etc. (via photographyblog)

Telephoto Is For Cowards, maybe so, but it’s a brave soul who’ll go up to some of the people I see on the street and take their photo! Mark linked to the Photographers Rights pamphlet but it applies mostly to the USA. Things are different enough in Europe that it would confuse matters.
(Via a long thread on STF)

The fact is, real photographers don’t shoot candids with telephoto lenses.
One pervasive image of the photographer is the celebrity-stalking paparazzi, the sleazy PI on Cheaters, and the creepy old guy in the trenchoat in the woods by the playground, all of whom wield big black cameras and three-foot-long lenses. This is the image of the photographer as stalker: someone who sees us from a long way off without us seeing him; who steals our picture without our knowledge, for some sinister purpose or other.