I recently found myself without my very much loved Canon 24-105mm f4.0 L IS Lens, as it was at the cleaners (it’s a fantastic general purpose lens), when i was called upon to grab some decent quality reference shots of a pretty vast landscape. I am a little ashamed to admit that i was already [...]
Just a little grumble this one, stock libraries are great things… Or are they. What is the best way to deal with a stock library? I am constantly frustrated. There are quite a few different ways to submit to stock libraries, but which one do you use? Now before the financial crisis started at the [...]
I was set a challenge today. The people that sent me on the expedition didn’t realise it was going to be a challenge but with the aid of a mountain, a dirt track, a snow storm and an ordinary car it turned out to be a challenge. First i feel a little explanation of what [...]
The philosophy of cameras on location is "To be prepared". The reason you need to be prepared is because if you are a keen cinematographer or photographer you just never know what may happen. And this can occur on many levels, whether you are an amateur or a professional. Photography on location covers many different aspects, through temperature range, lack of power and an amazingly diverse
The British Wildlife Photography Awards – Opens 2nd April – Deadline 31st July 2009 There seems to be a wildlife theme on competitions this month. You have a little bit of time for this competition, as it doesn’t open for almost another month yet. But with a prize fund of up £10,000 there will be [...]
Wildlife Portraits Competition deadline – 30th April 2009 The ‘Wildlife Portraits Competition’ is being run by Matthew Burrard-Lucas, and he has kindly donated the prize himself which is a great looking Olympus SP-570UZ, thats worth over £200. All you need to do is enter the competition, and that is free to do, so there are no excuses. The [...]
If you are one of those people who goes on holiday, and just wished that the could do the place more justice with the images that you bring back, or you take a few snaps of the family at weddings only to find they look like the images you see of the serial killers on [...]
The Times travel section has an ongoing monthly photography competition. It is a very open competition, the write up you give your image is almost as important as the image itself (my opinion, i am not a judge). This months prize is a luxury ferry crossing for a family of 4 and their car to [...]
Telegraph Travel Competition – Deadline Ongoing. Every week the Telegraph Travel section have a travel photography competition. So if you’ve been somewhere and got some great shots enter them in and see if somebody else thinks they are good too. The prize is normally a good quality suitcase (generally has a money value of about [...]
So you’re out ready to take your night shots, (or any longish exposure images) and you have realised you have left the cable release behind. Disaster has struck, when you are looking for an exacting standard in all your work you need images free from any movement that takes away from the overall look and [...]
