I've been on Flickr since 2005 and when I got on this morning, there was this new-look Flickr greeting me with lots of big, bold pictures, colour and a bit of a fanfare announcing the arrival of a "better and brighter" Flickr. Well, is it better...
While photography is a relatively recent invention, photographers have much to learn from the other visual arts -- notably painting. In an article entitled "What the Mona Lisa Can Teach Us About Taking Great Portraits", Darren Rowse explains how an analysis of this enigmatic portrait...
A collaboration between Red Bull and the Snap! Orlando photography festival has created one of the most jaw-dropping, eye-popping photography and videography projects. Entitled "Motion to Light", it combines action sports with light painting via slow shutter speed and the use of a powerful flash...
Trawling around the Interweb, I came across this touching and inspiring video of a boy's discover of photography and what it means to him, written and filmed by Eli Sinkus with a Canon 7D. What I loved about this short film is that it meshes...
I've been following the work of Athens-based street photographer, Lukas Vasilikos since my early days of photo-sharing on Flickr. Thus, I was delighted to find that Lukas has been interviewed by Eric Kim in his Kim's Street Photography blog. Vasilikos's work resonate with narrative (story telling)...
Creating photographic panoramas has gained a great deal of popularity over the last few years. It's got to the stage that many compact camera designers and manufacturers have built in fairly advanced panorama-capturing functions into these cameras. When I was in Siena in Tuscany a few...
If you're a beginner photographer, then chances are you're a bit stumped by the relationship between the aperture value and the size of the aperture. Beginners who have attended the Getting Started in DSLR Photography workshop we run will be familiar with this relationship and...
The last month has seen a few new, exciting developments for photographers. Let's have a look at them. Nikon D7100 Launch Chief of this is the launch of the Nikon D7100, a new 1.3x crop 24MP DSLR. I've been keeping an eye out on the D7100 as...
As photographers, we like talking about light: look for the light; find the light; use the light! It's all well and good when you're shooting where there is enough ambient light to make an exposure, and you're doubly lucky if the light comes from the right...
53 South West snappers went for a photo walk one day in Bunbury, organised by Bunbury photographers Christian Byrt and Graeme Marsh, and we received 22 entries for the Bunbury Photo Walk competition. The images ranged from streetscapes to urban abstracts to portraits -- there...