all new Hipstamatic at-a-glance
There’s been quite a few Hipstamatic lens/film packs released since I last posted my ‘every lens and film combination’ image last year. Actually, it turns out that a few of them were limited edition and they aren’t available any more. I stopped using Hipstamatic for quite a while and I missed a couple of these, [...]
pictureshow – stealing hipstamatic’s crown
The iPhone photo app market is saturated with apps to replicate the retro look. It’s probably a fad that should be on it’s last legs, but the apps keep coming and truth be told I do still like the look when it suits the image so purists be damned! For the last few months I’ve [...]
meltdown: refocussing
I’ve had a bit of a meltdown in the last few weeks and it’s had the result of forcing me to rethink what these blogs mean to me, what photography has come to mean to me, what I mean to myself, what other aspects of my life mean to me, and what’s most important. Basically, [...]
go the extra mile
Thought I’d give a motivational sermon today. I did a ‘half day’ job for a client recently, portraits to publicise a documentary they’d made for the BBC. They’d asked my rates, I told them, they decided it was a half-day job, I booked it in. It subsequently changed date numerous times. So many, in fact, [...]
doctor strobist (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the light)
I first picked up a DSLR (or indeed any SLR) in 2005 when I bought my Nikon D70, and for the next 3 years flash lighting scared me witless. In a medium where light is everything, being unwilling and unable to get a grip on how to light with flash was sort of an embarrassment, [...]
get over your fears
I’m always interested in reading about folk that are successful doing creative things that they love to do (as opposed to punching a well-paid but tedious, soul destroying time card just for the $$$) – a couple of my favourites are David Hobby’s Strobist site, Chase Jarvis’ blog and John Keatley’s blog (yes, they’re all [...]