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 Harry Nowell [...]

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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 gets [...]

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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 early, [...]

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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 takes [...]

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Lightroom Workflow

A few friends have asked how I manage to turn around my pictures so quickly. I’ve used Adobe Lightroom since it was in beta and now have a workflow process in place that allows me to quickly select my best shots from a shoot, post-process them as necessary and export them. So I thought for [...]

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Erase Tourists from Your Holiday Shots

Photojojo covers the issue of getting that great holiday shot without all those other pesky tourists in the photo. They link to three different methods for you to try.
Travelling a lot this is something that often plagues me and I often end up waiting for quite a long time for that perfect shot with either [...]

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