http://permanenttourist.ch Photography and Multimedia by Mark Howells-Mead Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:45:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://permanenttourist.ch/articles/2009/11/niels-and-the-showgirl/ http://permanenttourist.ch/articles/2009/11/niels-and-the-showgirl/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:06:31 +0000 Mark Howells-Mead http://permanenttourist.ch/?p=3400 http://permanenttourist.ch/articles/2009/11/niels-and-the-showgirl/feed/ 0 http://permanenttourist.ch/articles/2008/07/storm-approaching/ http://permanenttourist.ch/articles/2008/07/storm-approaching/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:23:09 +0000 Mark Howells-Mead http://permanenttourist.ch/?p=638 http://permanenttourist.ch/articles/2008/07/storm-approaching/feed/ 0 http://permanenttourist.ch/articles/2008/07/inexpensive-still-life-photography/ http://permanenttourist.ch/articles/2008/07/inexpensive-still-life-photography/#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:48:53 +0000 Mark Howells-Mead http://permanenttourist.ch/journal/2008/07/25/inexpensive-still-life-photography/ Lladró statue, designed by Francisco Catalá, was a gift from my parents and fits well with my photographic tendencies. It is also a great test piece for studio photography, so when I was looking to test flash technique this evening (in particular, soft lighting) it was immediately brought out. The statue is around 13" (33 cm) tall and highly varnished, so any direct flash would cause problematic highlights. I've been looking into various means of softening flash light over the past few days, in order to improve and refine my strobist photographs. I am still considering more professional equipment, but this evening's tests and experiments were a mix of do-it-yourself technologies, using things which were already to hand at home. Therefore, a cheap and cheerful look at how to get a good result! First up, I set up an ironing board and covered it with a white cotton cloth, roughed up slightly to show some texture in]]> http://permanenttourist.ch/articles/2008/07/inexpensive-still-life-photography/feed/ 1 http://permanenttourist.ch/articles/2008/07/learning-a-lot-a-little-at-a-time/ http://permanenttourist.ch/articles/2008/07/learning-a-lot-a-little-at-a-time/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:05:50 +0000 Mark Howells-Mead http://permanenttourist.ch/?p=528 David Hobby's workshop DVD set, which is on sale for US$139. The price seems steep for "just" a DVD, but reconsider: what you're actually getting isn't just a film, but an in-depth tutorial over eight DVDs (over ten hours of content) which has the potential to seriously improve your photographic technique and, potentially, earn you some money. The film clip above is a good example piece for what I imagine the remainder of the DVDs are like. It's well filmed and David is a good teacher, explaining what he's doing and why. His subjects - who appear to be taking part in the workshop themselves - seem to be a relaxed bunch which has, in this section, allowed him to shoot a fairly relaxed portrait using t]]> http://permanenttourist.ch/articles/2008/07/learning-a-lot-a-little-at-a-time/feed/ 0 http://permanenttourist.ch/articles/2008/07/geturl-and-target-_self-not-working/ http://permanenttourist.ch/articles/2008/07/geturl-and-target-_self-not-working/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:02:46 +0000 Mark Howells-Mead http://permanenttourist.ch/?p=450 sitepoint.) Set allowScriptAccess="always" in your call to the Flash file, either directly in the OBJECT or EMBED tag, or as part of the params associative array if you're using SWFObject. var params={}; params.allowScriptAccess="always";]]> http://permanenttourist.ch/articles/2008/07/geturl-and-target-_self-not-working/feed/ 1