Today saw another role reversal where I found myself on the lens side of the camera, and one of my models operating it. lovely young woman called Chiara, who also happens to be my researcher. I still look bloody ugly but it was a nice try on her part.
Just occasionally here in Britain we design and produce a product that is so simple, versatile and completely brilliant one wonders why no one thought of it before. The humble Benbo Trekker camera tripod is one such design. Whilst those expensive black plastic (aka “carbon fibre”) things everyone seems to be talking about look pretty…
Today I took a walk around Hong Kong Cemetery. I then took some snaps around Central and caught the Star Ferry to Kowloon. Kowloon is away interesting especially after dark. Then I caught the bus back to Hong Kong. Its route included Hong Kong’s famous Harbour Tunnel.
An interesting question came up a little while back on one of the photography fora to which I belong “I’d be interested in knowing how you swapped the halogen bulbs for LEDs because I have the same problem and as you say those bulbs are hotter than hell, makes using modelling lights with a grid…
Wishing all our readers a very merry, peaceful Christmas And a happy, successful New Year… “Mr. Penguin and Mr. Goose, on a very frosty Hungarian day.”
I belong to several online photography fora. One of the questions that repeatedly pops up is “what image editing software do you use?” and “what alternatives are there to Adobe Photoshop/Lightroom?” In this article, I hope to demonstrate that high quality image processing is perfectly possible using FOSS (free open source software). I will also…
Garfnet has become a huge site with many component parts. Here are some of the more useful bits, complete with nice, short URL’s you can bookmark, scribble down on a stick-it note or (heaven forbid) memorise! All things Linux:- http://www.garfnet.org.uk/linux Depth of field (DoF) calculator:- http://www.garfnet.org.uk/dof Earthquake info:- http://www.garfnet.org.uk/earthquake International weather from 3000 METAR stations…
