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Teaser ~ 15 Minute Photo Challenge
I keep getting asked to make more 15 minute photo challenge videos and I keep promising that I will. So here’s a short teaser clip from a brand new 15 Minute Photo Challenge video that will we filmed last week at one of my favo...
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Kingston Ultimate 600X ~ Review
In this review I’m looking at the Kingston ultimate 600X, it’s a compact flash memory card that promises to really pack a punch when it comes to speed and capacity. Lets see how well if fares in the real world. Verd...
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The making of a great landscape photo
I’ve been keen to visit the coastal town of Selsey ever since I saw a great photo of the RNLI lifeboat house and last week I got my chance. I was in the area to present a talk on photography and Photoshop so a headed off early ...
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Four ways to use a polarising filter
A polarising filter is one of the few filters I still own and more importantly use on a regular basis. It was also the first type of filter that I ever bought but that was way back when I first started photography 25 years ago....
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September Photo Challenge ~ The Results
The theme for the September photo competition was “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” which is essentially three themes in one. I’d like to thank Print Yours for sponsoring the competition by supplying the winner with a giant prin...
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RPS DI Southern Group – All day workshop
When?Sunday 7th October 201210.00am – 4.00pm Where?Greyfriars Community Centre44 Christchurch RoadRingwood BH24 1DW More infohttp://www.rps.org/region/southern/events/view/2650 Booking Infohttp://www.rps.org/resources/workshops...
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Photoshop Elements 11 ~ First look
I’ve always had a soft spot for Photoshop Elements. It’s 90% cheaper then Photoshop, its bigger brother, and yet it still does 90% of everything I need Photoshop to do. Traditionally Elements is updated every 12 months and in t...
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RAM vs Photoshop
Recently I wrote about how swapping a traditional hard disk drive with a modern solid state drive or SSD for short. If you missed it, you can catch it here but in short it speeded up Photoshop by 30% and made using Windows 7 a ...
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Shooting the show with Canon
Earlier this week and quite out of the blue, I received an email from Canon with an offer to shoot a fashion show during London Fashion Weekend. This wasn’t some PR event organised just for photographers, it’s a real fashion sh...
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September Photo Challenge
Yes it’s back again for another month. It’s the photo challenge and for September the photo challenge your theme is… Planes, trains and automobiles How you decide to interpret that theme is entirely up to you. Perhaps you’ll wa...