Tag: bps
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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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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!…