Here’s the problem - I’m out in my garden early in the morning with my new D200 with 70-300mm zoom attached. At the back of the garden just in front of the back fence, in partial shade, is a Yucca with the soft morning light just brushing it. I could have run indoors to fetch [...]

Oh dear, another weekend - time is just flashing past in a blur!
Here is my selection of the best links I’ve seen on the web for the week just gone.
Fiftieth Anniversary of First Digital Image - “It was a grainy image of a baby—just 5 centimeters by 5 centimeters—but it turned out to be the [...]

With my recent purchase of a Nikon D200 I commented in a previous post, Cheap Chinese Made Photo Equipment, about my intention to buy some cheap Chinese accessories for it - after baulking at the price of the Nikon equivalents! After cruising on eBay I put in a order for a Remote Shutter Release and [...]

In my recent posts about the techno wizardry of small hot shoe flashes like my SB800 I mused as to whether most of us are really using their capabilities to the full. As is my usual idle wont I pointed you towards Dave Black’s excellent set of tutorials for more information on how to get [...]

This is a follow up to yesterday’s post with links to a couple of extra excellent resources.
I’ve written before about using small softboxes, snoots, grids etc. with small but powerful hot shoe flashes like my SB800 but how many of you knew that these tiny marvels have more than enough oomph to use with much [...]

Are you getting the most out of the technological wonder that is your TTL hot shoe flash unit? If you’re anything like me the answer is probably no. Heck, after paying fairly heftily for my SB800 for most of the time I use it on manual and tethered to the camera with a bog standard [...]

It’s been a quiet week online for me - I’ve been a bit busy on other matters - but my selection is still, I believe, interesting enough to be worth a look!
The Photography of Mary Ellen Mark - Thomas Hawk’s blog post takes a look at the work of one of the most consistently excellent [...]

Last night on BBC 2 I saw a documentary entitled “Race Hate In Louisiana”. The documentary was about the repercussions of an incident that took place at the local High School in Jena, a small Southern town in Louisiana. I’m not going to comment on the incident or express an opinion, mostly because I doubt [...]

I first became aware of Frans Lanting and his exquisite nature photography in the 1980s. Even then, looking at his early work, you were aware that in a field of photography where it was often an achievement to get any sort of image here was something very special. Since then I have followed with interest [...]

Thumbing through a recent UK photo mag I came across an interesting article about David Loftus, a Brit food photographer who has worked with Jamie Oliver (”The Naked Chef” - UK readers will know!) on his past five books. Unusually, David works only with natural light, his only lighting equipment being a couple of lightstands [...]