Technique
Posts which share technical information or knowledge, often illustrated with pictures or downloadable instructions.
Out of the blue
Friends and Family / Geek stuff / Portraiture / Technique
Tuesday, 31st August, 2010 • 2 comments
Jo posed for me in the stairwell to an underground car park during last Sunday’s Swiss Strobist practical day, whilst I fiddled with the camera white balance to create an unusual effect.
Take the tourist shot
Landscape photography / Prints for sale / Technique
Friday, 6th August, 2010 • 4 comments
When I first planned to hike to Bachalp above Grindelwald, I had envisaged not taking the photo above. However, the reception which the photo has received since posting it to Flickr has made me glad that I did.
Fun with timelapse photography
Technique / Video
Thursday, 22nd July, 2010 • 5 comments
I’ve tinkered with timelapse photography at several points over the past few years, and have begun to refine my technique using a digital SLR over the past few weeks. This article explains how, with an example sequence of a cruise ship leaving Invergordon in Scotland.
Strobism isn’t everything
Geek stuff / Photography / Technique
Monday, 7th June, 2010 • No comments
I’ve learned a lot about artificial lighting over the past few years and invested a great deal of time to hone my skill. However, I feel that it’s time to put the equipment to one side for a while and focus on using more natural light.
Experiments in HDR
Geek stuff / Individual photographs / Landscape photography / Technique
Saturday, 3rd April, 2010 • 2 comments
I’ve been meaning to spend a little time to sit down and really get to grips with the High Dynamic Range editing process. For the unititiated, the HDR is a photo which contains detail within a much wider range of tones than is possible through an individual shot, from deep shadows to bright highlights.
Diffused directional light
Geek stuff / Technique
Saturday, 27th February, 2010 • No comments
A technical explanation of how do make the light from a softbox more focused, whilst retaining the soft light through the use of a secondary light on very low power to fill in any unwanted shadows.
Inspiration vs. reason
Individual photographs / Landscape photography / Photography / Technique / Writing
Tuesday, 12th January, 2010 • No comments
A friend asked me over the Christmas break how I manage to retain my drive for taking photos. I gave it some thought over the past few days and thought that my answer might be useful or interesting to other photographers or artists and so here it is.
Black and white Lightroom presets by MikeyG
Geek stuff / Technique / Travel
Tuesday, 1st December, 2009 • No comments
An example of an image processed using a simple preset available through the Lightroom Presets website.
iPhone and AirTunes
Geek stuff / Music / Technique
Monday, 16th November, 2009 • No comments
How I’ve hooked up my iPhone, laptop and stereo system to have a 50Gb wireless audio system at home.
Why opening new browser windows for external links is pointless
Geek stuff / Internet / Technique
Thursday, 12th November, 2009 • No comments
Don’t you just hate it when you’ve been using the internet for a little while and you have a mass of browser windows to battle with? Where the hell did that website go, that you were looking at earlier? Both of these annoyances are entirely unnecessary, and this article explains why.
Niels and the Showgirl
Friends and Family / Individual photographs / Technique
Wednesday, 11th November, 2009 • No comments
An unplanned shot, taken of volunteer Niels for the One Frame Movie set of photographs I was working on a few weeks back.
Au Voleur*
Friends and Family / Individual photographs / Technique
Friday, 6th November, 2009 • 3 comments
The next in my series of theatrical photographs, featuring fellow photographer Tilman Jentzsch.
Lessons in lighting
Friends and Family / Individual photographs / Technique
Wednesday, 21st October, 2009 • 1 comment
A photograph from a session in Zurich, and the lessons in lighting and technique which make it one of the more successful session shots of the past few months.
Getting good prints from a lab – part 1
Geek stuff / Photography / Technique
Saturday, 17th October, 2009 • 4 comments
Having bought a Mamiya 645 a few months ago, I wanted to make a return to the traditional chemical processing techniques which I used for many years until switching to a digital workflow in 2004. I’m interested in the difference in print quality – in terms of sharpness and colour reproduction – between traditional printing and the scanned negative printed via digital means.
