[image title="St Michaels Abbey" size="thumbnail" id="676" align="center" linkto="viewer" ] This image has been published before here on nicklewis.net but I just wanted to use it to illustrate today’s post which is about getting the best out of your local “patch” and how to look for the things that aren’t immediately obvious. A theme that we [...]
Technique
Overcast days needn’t put a complete dampener on your photography, as photo opportunities are still there to be taken. My best piece of advice is, look down and see what you can capture without showing the slightest hint of grey sky. This was very much the case with the deckchairs I came across in Italy. [...]
Ok I will get this bit out of the way first, I wouldn’t use a camera phone for producing publishable images, I just do not think that their quality is there just yet but in the case of some models, I am in fact, to be totally honest, quite impressed. I say that cautiously of [...]
A little bit of team work took place here. My Wife prepared the food for me and I photographed it using a very simple setup – Comprising of Nikon D200, Tamron 90mm Macro, mounted on a tripod with a cable release attached. Lighting was simply natural coming from the Kitchen Window and the food was [...]
I thought I’d re-share this shot for two reasons, one I really love this location and secondly I was mortfied to hear recently that a number of these famous trees have had to be cut down. The National Trust decided that around a dozen (maybe more) of the trees were unsafe and they had no [...]
I have just watched David Noton’s DVD entitled “Chasing the Light” and thoroughly enjoyed it. David covers a wide range of topics including such important things as location finding, quite often just a case of going for a good walk without the camera kit.