Archive for the 'Photography' Category

First good macro photo with new lens

August 1st, 2009

Taken in France – the first of hopefully many!

Windscreen wiper and SLR lens

March 24th, 2009

Once again I’ve been extremely lax in updating this blog. Unfortunately between work, St John, personal life (and driving my new car…!) I’ve not had a lot of time to get my thoughts and findings down on paper online as I was planning to with this site. Anyway, hopefully I might kick myself back into [...]

Options for Lightbox

May 20th, 2008

I’m in the process of revamping my photo gallery sections as the SimpleViewer Flash -powered gallery isn’t quite doing the job for me (although I haven’t ruled it out yet, it might just need a change of layout). One option that many people use is Lightbox – or one of the many variants that have [...]

Image stabilisation discussion

January 30th, 2008

Bob Atkins has a very interesting post on Canon’s image stabilisation technology in their DSLRs: http://www.bobatkins.com/photography/digital/image_stabilization.html

Canon releases EOS 450D (Digital Rebel XSi)

January 25th, 2008

Canon have recently released an addition to their entry level range of Digital SLRs. I own the 350D (Digital Rebel XT) which is the successor of the 300D (the original Digital Rebel – now discontinued). The 400D (XTi) was until a few days ago the top model in this range. The Canon EOS 450D (XSi) [...]

Microsoft Photo Info tool

January 23rd, 2008

A useful tool I discovered for viewing and setting Exif info in image files (e.g. JPEGs, TIFFs) is Microsoft Photo Info. This is a free tool from MS as part of their PowerTools range. It can be downloaded from the Microsoft web site here. Exif data is meta data embedded within image files, usually added [...]

Creative Photography: Traffic Trails

January 20th, 2008

The first of a series of blog posts giving more details about some of my photographs.