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My Old Camera Club
Max who was the BBC News website Photographer of the Year 2006, and he ran the photography club in Weedon, Bucks every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the week. I joined in 2008 and went for nearly two years. The club was mainly a six week repeating camera course and would run with about half […]
The Double-Edged Sword of AI
How it is Changing the Stock Photography Market and Impacting Photographers The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has had a profound effect on many industries, and the stock photography market is no exception.
May you take a photo of me and my horse..
While I was thinking what to write for the next blog and scrolling through the channels on the SKY box (other boxes are available) I found myself watching the Horse & Country channel and the Jumping World Cup. This brought back memories of my wife and daughter, spending endless hours preparing and practicing for shows […]
Pet Portraits
Making memories We often forget that our pets are an integral part of our family and that they are with us for only a short time. We take photos of our family, selfies for our social media, but do we take images of our pets or animals we care for. Your pet is important, especially […]
Stop The Selfie
As the holiday dates draw ever closer and I start thinking about the places I am going to visit and imagine the sights, the food and most of all what awaits for me to photograph. My thoughts then drifted to our previous holidays and the people we saw with their long selfie sticks. Holding them […]
Street photography and getting started
You would think walking around taking photos of random people in the the streets where you live would be easy. Well for some photographers it is, but for the majority it can be a bitter sweet experience. Just the thought of walking around the streets with their camera can be reason enough not do do […]
Using Gels to Change Background
Do you have an Speed-lite or off camera flash?Can you trigger it using a remote or the pop-up flash on the camera?Do you only have a single background colour? If the answer is yes then this may be the post for you. Did you know you can change the colour of your background without having […]
Simple Start to Manual Mode
Why should we use manual mode? This is the $1,000,000-dollar question, why should we use Manual Mode when all the other modes do exactly what we want and without the hassle of learning what everything does? We get asked this a lot and our answer is always the same, it gives you control over the […]
