Category: Photography
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Flash Photography with Speedlights
“Light is the basic ingredient of photography. Photographers learn to love the light, to look for and anticipate great light. Some photographers learn to create the light they want…”
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A month with… Canon AE-1 Program
As part of an ongoing project to shoot a film with a different vintage camera every month, April 2025 was the turn of a Canon AE-1 Program 35mm SLR, loaded with Kodak TMax100 black-and-white film. This camera came to me as part of a job lot of camera equipment from a friend of a friend…
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A month with… Nikon FM2
As part of an ongoing project to shoot a film with a different vintage camera every month, March 2025 was the turn of a Nikon FM2 35mm SLR, loaded with Kodak TX400 (TMax) black-and-white film.
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Macro Photography
These notes were made to accompany a presentation I made at Bromsgrove Photographic Society in April 2025. A few years ago I made a presentation at Bromsgrove Photographic Society entitled “50 ways to take a macro”, in which I talked about (and demonstrated) lots of “alternative” techniques for taking macro photographs (other than the obvious…
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Characteristics of lenses
This post originated as a set of notes for a talk I offered to do at Bromsgrove Photographic Society. “I want a new lens for my camera. What should I get?” Or probably a better question… “I want to be able to take X type of photograph – what lens do I need.” Or maybe…
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Current Lens Mounts
I’ve been working on a post about lenses and their characteristics to accompany an upcoming talk at Bromsgrove Photographic Society, and tried to include a description of what lens mounts were in use by different manufacturers. Trying to summarise this information for that post has only helped make it clear how complex the situation is!…
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Fuji X100VI initial thoughts
I just – almost on a whim – bought a Fuji X100vi camera. Here’s some initial thoughts about it the camera, the buying experience, and the camera.
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36 Exposures
One of the things I enjoyed about taking an old film camera out with me on yesterday’s walk is that I knew when I set off – and with every shot that I took – that I was going to take no more than 36 exposures (actually, I thought it was a 24-exposure film) and…
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Time to scan some film
Yesterday I did something I have not done for 40 years – I developed a roll of film! Today I scanned it. A bit of a learning curve to be climbed here, and I made lots of mistakes! Listed a few here to remind myself not to make them again… But the shots do have…