Tuesday, 16 March 2010

looking for spring: wind


looking for spring: wind
Originally uploaded by hanabi.
This is by Hanabi another of my favourite flickr photographers. Quite how she manages to capture such delicate images of plants and flowers I don't know, but I'd urge you to look at her work.

Monday, 15 March 2010

Hope


Hope
Originally uploaded by peel apart
This is a shot from a guy who goes by the name of 'peel apart' on flickr.
Have a look at some of his work, great compositions, some sensitive portraits and sense of humour.
He also seems able to get great results using a couple of old TLRs. Respect. I've got a Yashicamat 124G but I'm afraid my coordination seems to fall apart when I try to compose a picture with it!

Expensive cameras, why bother?


I like to watch how many 'views' my pictures get on Flickr and try to understand what it is that makes them popular, or not! My most viewed picture I've previously posted here, but this one is rapidly catching up. Why?

Is there anything in the fact that both of these pictures were taken with small sensor cameras? Surely not.


Saturday, 13 March 2010


Ok, so it's a pot plant on a window sill. It's (more or less) how the camera coped with the exposure at the time having spot metered on the pot. Consequently the scene outside the window is, of course, very over exposed. Is this a case for using an HDR technique? I decided not, because I felt too much background detail would detract from the plant which is the subject of the photo.

By the way, this was taken at Lacock Abbey, arguably the home of photography.