With all the recent announcements of the shiny new things coming out of Photokina this year I feel it’s time for an ‘in praise of…’ post on a product I own that is not new (or particularly shiny) and has seen a bit of a revival in usage since I purchased a
This year I’ve been working with Chiedza Dawn Ziyambe, founder of Zimbabwe Fashion Showcase (ZFS) who has her annual fashion show running from 28-30 July in London and Birmingham. Back in February I took some promotional images for Dawn and last week I was at the fitting and catwalk training session she had
So what could be simpler than making some portraits with one camera, one lens, a single light source (the sun through a window) and a big open space? Not much I would say. This is what I did recently on a shoot at the Pit Studio in Nottingham with the model ‘Misuzu’.
It’s been three months since I started using the Fujifilm X100T as an addition to my Olympus, micro four thirds cameras. I thought I’d take this opportunity to write a short review based on real-life usage over that time and share a few images in the various genres I shoot
Three years ago today I posted my first entry onto this blog celebrating the renewal of my interest in photography with the purchase of my first serious micro four-thirds camera, the Olympus OM-D E-M5 (which we should now call the Mark I given there is now an E-M5 Mark II).
A couple of weeks ago I shot some images for the organisers of this years Zimbabwe Fashion Showcase at SS Creative Photography Studio in Birmingham. This was an all day shoot with five models, a makeup artist, stylist and designer present as well as the organisers themselves. The brief was obviously
For some time now I have been considering adding a small rangefinder type camera to my kit that I can carry with me anywhere, is light and indiscreet and provides complete control over the type of images I make. The daddy of all rangefinders is still considered to be the Leica M but at
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A Thousand Words is Worth a Picture
I’ve been running this blog for over three years now and, hopefully, have learned a few things along the way, not least of which is that blogging regularly is pretty hard to do. Coming up with something original to say or, in the case of a photography blog, something pictorially