Creating Art from your iPhone photographs
I have a lot of photography and creative apps on my iPhone – over 60 at the last count. Of these I use a core 20 or so every week. I thought it might be helpful for people starting-out with their iPhone photography to share some of my own insights.I use Instagram as [...]
Long Exposure Fun
I’ve been having some fun with long exposures using an ND8 filter. The trick is to take a photo which has movement but also some static, solid objects (like rocks). It pretty much goes without saying that you need a tripod for making these photographs! With the camera set on the tripod I [...]
Creating Art From Photos
There some great tools out there for converting a photograph into a “painting”; my favourite one is “Snap Art 2” from Alien Skin Software (yes, that is their real name). They have a new version coming-out soon, by the way. If you need a repeatable and efficient way to create “photo art”, it’s [...]
Why backup when you can lose all your data?
First-up I’ve got to be honest; my backup strategy is still work-in-progress and I’ve still got a lot to learn. That said, I have hard a hard drive crash, losing all my my photos covering about 3 months of pretty cool stuff. I’m a graduate of the school of hard knocks! At the moment I’m [...]
Tips for Shooting Landscapes
Today Canon NZ asked on Twitter for “what is your top landscape tip”. Well, that got me thinking and here is a quick list of tips that I could think of: Focus 1/3 of the way into the scene Use a circular polarizer filter to reduce haze and reflections (depends on time of day and [...]
