Gavin Gough 2010 Photo Workshops announced
Gavin Gough – the intrepid Bangkok based Humanitarian and travel photgrapher – has just announced his 2010 workshops series, that will cover, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Bhutan and some other locations still to be announced. If your not familiar with Gavin’s work, it can be viewed at www.gavingough.com. I think his work is similar in approach [...]
Adobe Lightroom 3.0 Beta available
Adobe announced the availability of Lightroom 3.0 as a public beta this week. Of course being a Beta it is not the finished product, and usually with Adobe the final version will ship with a load more tweaks and enhancements than in the Beta. Scott Kelby has written a detailed review on his blog, and [...]
Embedding Lightroom galleries in WordPress posts and pages
Those of you following this blog from the start will know that I had struggled initially to get multiple Lightroom albums and galleries to display correctly across multiple browsers. If you go down the route of creating your own HTML page for your portfolio, and then linking to this from your WordPress blog, then you [...]
VisionMongers – Making a life and living in Photography
VisionMongers is the Second of David DuChemin’s books. The first, “Within the Frame” – has quickly become one of the best ever selling photographic book on “Why” to take photographs, and deservedly has raised David’s profile, reputation and following globally hugely. David’s passion is not the “how to ” photograph something, but the “why to”. [...]
Camera Etrusca – photographic workshop in Umbria and Tuscany
I was very fortunate to spend a week with professional photographer, Patrick Nicholas, who runs Camera Etrusca in Orvieto, Italy. Patrick has been a professional photographer for most of his working life and has been based in Italy for the last 25 years or so. Patrick brings an encyclopedic knowledge of Etruscan history, insights and [...]
Creating stronger images through visual mass
The recent release of “Drawing the Eye – Creating Stronger Images through Visual Mass” – is David DuChemin’s third part of his ebook series. This one is equally as good as the other two and continues David’s theme that “Why” rather than” How” is the question to be asking as you shoot pictures. “Drawing the [...]
Using Blurb.com to Publish your book
Ever wanted to publish your own Coffee-table book of your photographs? There are a host of different on-demand digital publishing houses out there and all offer very similar services. There is however a vast difference in quality, price per book, distribution and shipping costs. After some extensive research I chose Blurb.com to publish my first [...]
Perfection is not just a snap
I regularly look at work of photographers that I admire and wonder how they got such an amazing image. As I read more and more, and talk with pro travel photographers so I understand more that they are using all the same tools as me, going through all the same angst (well may I have [...]
Sculpting with Light
Micthell Kanashkevitch has just produced the second of his “eBooks” – this one focusing on how he “sculpts with light”. It is the most extraordinary insight into how to create stunning images using a combination of available, reflected or artificial light. Mitchell uses artificial light in such a way that you think it is natural. All [...]
Ten more with David duChemin
David does it again. Following on from his first eBook “Ten”, David has scored a hit with “Ten More” – an additional 10 ideas to help photographers of ll expereince levels. In true David fashion he combines his extraordinary ability to communicate his passion and his ideas in a manner that engages and encourages, without [...]
Italy within the Frame
I have been incredibly lucky to get one of the very few places on a workshop with David duChemin and Jeffrey Chapman in Italy in April 2010. David’s book – With the Frame (available in the eStore) – is one of the most engaging reads around photography, exploring the “Why” rather than the “How” of [...]
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