Migrating from PixelPost to WordPress
I’ve decided that I’m going to migrate my photoblog away from PixelPost and onto WordPress. I use WP for my this blog and my portfolio and have got comfortable using it. It also has excellent customisability and solid support and isn’t likely to lose that any time soon. The same sadly can’t be said of [...]
my plastic eye – the ‘hipstamatic’ look for Photoshop
iPhone photo apps have sparked a surge in popularity of retro camera styles, emulating the imperfect plastic lenses and saturated colours of Lomo cameras in particular, and for months now the regular number one photo app has been Hipstamatic (which I wrote about here). There are others – I was a big fan of Camerabag [...]
adventures in softboxing: sunshine and daisies
Featuring:
- off-camera flash lighting with a softbox
- experiments with white balance and gelling
- daisies through a wide angle lens
- hints and tips and where I went wrong
hitting the street with the lumiquest softbox III
I got a LumiQuest Softbox III last week and wanted to put it to use straight away. Its main appeal to me is as a close in soft lighting source for portraits, useable handheld if necessary with no real awkwardness. I could use it at events to get awesome off-camera lit portraits anywhere, worlds away [...]
making ‘this glass is half full’
Today I posted a new image from a local pub that at the time I took it was a really nice photo as it stood. Really nice soft natural light, nice depth of field and sharpness with the 50mm f/1.8 lens, simple subject matter, popping colours, and beer. Perfect. :) I did give it a [...]