Apologies for site downtime
Unfortunately I tried to be too clever and tried to update the version of wordpress using my iphone. Great if it works, bad if it doesn’t… and it didn’t work. As I’m out in Canada, the opportunities to fix it are limited. So I’m now sitting in a car, with my netbook, within range of [...]
The day of the Oldham Photo walk
Well today is the day of the photo walk that I am organising as part of Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk and I have spotted some blue sky!! But only a bit. I’m looking forwards to the day, even if it does rain, and hopefully there will be around 15-20 photographers turning up for it. [...]
Come and join a photo walk near Oldham on July 18th
I have finalised the plans for a photo walk near Oldham on July 18th 2009 as part of the Annual Worldwide Photo Walk. You can find all the info, and register for it here: http://worldwidephotowalk.com/oldham-en-uk/ Please don’t try and register through this site, you have to go to the official page at the address above. [...]
Oldham Photography Walk July 18th
I’m just finalising the plans for a photography walk to be held somewhere around the Oldham area on July 18th 2009 as part of the Annual Worldwide Photo Walk. I’ll be publishing mroe details once I have them, but I hope you will be able to join me as it should be an enjoyable afternoon [...]
A New Year For Photography
Happy New Year Everyone! So we are now into 2009. Hopefully you were on Santa’s ‘has been good list’ and you might have got a new camera or a new lens or maybe an accessory or two. Have you tried them yet? Well now is the time to set yourself some (belated) photography resolutions for [...]
Sports Photography
There are many disciplines of photography that require a certain technique to get the best out of it. Sports photography is one that requires quick reflexes, confidence in your camera equipment and knowing what settings you can use quickly to capture the fast pace of what you are taking pictures of. I had the chance [...]
Finally fixed the .co.uk
Just a quick apology to anyone that has been trying to get to this site via http://www.photographybasics.co.uk I have only just realised there was a problem and it looked like the site was gone. All fixed now and sorry about the balls up!
Weekend Inspiration
I am always looking for inspiration for my photography, and what better way than to look at what other people are taking pictures of, how they are taking them, and also how they are presenting them. Presentation can have a big effect on the impact of an image so it’s well worth spending time improving [...]
Lenses
A comment by one of our readers Shani prompted this post. A question was asked: Could you please share some info regarding the different lenses. Now, lenses cover a huge area and can be quite technical when it comes to saying why one lens might be better than another. Plus there are lots of manufacturers [...]
What do you want to know?
I’ve been writing articles on this blog for a little while now, picking subjects that I think will be helpful to people learning photography from the basics. From most of the feedback I get, I seem to be picking subjects that are of use, but I thought it was about time I asked you, the [...]
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