Low autumn sunshine is the best free lighting you’ll get all year. Because the sun sits so low in the sky, it lights leaves from the side and shines straight through them, rather than beating down from above. Yesterday it was bright enough to drag me away from my desk for an hour’s walk round
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Blog, Composition, Musings, Photography
AI has taken some of the fiddly work out of my editing. Here are seven useful jobs, and the judgement each one still needs.
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Artificial Intelligence, Blog, Photography, Tips
The best photography locations in the Yorkshire Dales are not always the famous ones. They are the places that suit the weather you have, give you something decent in the foreground, and leave enough time to work a photograph rather than tick a pin off a map. Quick answer: where should you photograph in the
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Landscapes, Photography, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Dales
Exposure Explained: Why Every Camera Setting Is Just Filling a Glass The exposure triangle is the relationship between three camera settings — aperture, shutter speed and ISO — that together decide how bright or dark a photo comes out. Get your head around it once, properly, and every camera you ever pick up makes sense.
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Blog, Equipment and Kit, Photography, Photography Basics for Beginners
You Get More Photos Now Than You Used To If you hired a photographer ten or fifteen years ago, you probably received a small, carefully selected set of images. That wasn’t because photographers were holding back. It was because time was the limiting factor. Editing used to be the bottleneck Every image had to be
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Blog, Business, Commercial, Musings, Photography
We Use Software You’ve Never Heard Of Clients don’t pay for software. They pay for results, delivered on time, without fuss. The reason those results look the way they do is because modern photography quietly relies on a stack of tools most people will never see or think about. Software isn’t a product — it’s
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Blog, Business, Commercial, Discussion, Fun, Photography
Personal Projects Are Professional R&D Most industries have a thing called research and development. It’s budgeted for. It’s planned. It’s justified in meetings. Photography has it too — it’s just unpaid, informal, and usually done on a Sunday morning with a camera and a flask. Personal projects aren’t a break from work They are the
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Blog, Fun, Photography
We Use the Same Camera for Work and Fun Most jobs have a clear line between work tools and personal life. Photography doesn’t. If you’re a lawyer, you don’t spend your Sunday afternoon drafting pretend contracts for enjoyment. If you’re an accountant, you don’t knock up a spreadsheet on holiday “just to keep sharp”.
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Discussion, Fun, Musings, Photography
Photography Doesn’t End at 5pm (And that’s why the results are better) Before photography, I spent 13 years as a software engineer. And here’s the honest truth: the second I left the office, software ceased to exist. No coding at weekends. No books about programming. No tinkering “for fun”. Work was work. Life was life.
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Fun, Musings, Photographer Types, Photography
Mastering Essential Photography Tips for Beginners: The Quick Guide to Photography Taking a decent photo’s not just about hitting the shutter—think of it more like learning your way round a pub quiz team: a bit shaky to start, but you’ll soon find your feet. Let’s kick off with the three basics every beginner photographer should
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