A Masterclass in Wildlife Photography

Are you a budding nature/wildlife photographer? Want to improve your skills? If so then the BBC Wildlife magazine may have the solution for you. They’ve put over 20 of their masterclass articles on their web site in PDF format to download. These cover a huge range of topics and subjects around the art of wildlife [...]

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Motion techniques and Panning

Have you ever tried to get some motion into your shots by panning with a moving subject? Digital Photography School recently posted an article which included 5 tips for successful panning and provides some nice images as examples. However if you want to take things a little further, have a look at the article on [...]

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Motion Blur

The carousel shot I posted a few entries ago has truly been one of my most popular shots for quite a while. Personally this surprised me as I’ve seen loads of examples of very similar shots, but hey, if people like it I’m happy. However this got me thinking. This time of year when it [...]

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Things to Photograph: Star Trails

Everyone seems to be talking about shooting star trails (no, not shooting stars, but shooting, star trails). Digital Photography School has some tips and provides 4 steps to creating great star shots using stacking software. Various Flickr groups I’m in have also been discussing this too, and as the nights are getting dark nice and [...]

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rOllon. (Not) just another photography blog

I discovered rOllon.in today and whilst it appears its fairly new (I could only find two articles) it does show promise. The writer on this blog, Rishi, is a very funny guy and the amusing posts seem to be focused (excuse the pun) on taking a particular picture. What is refreshing is that Rishi then [...]

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