Blog List – Modern

Images of India

You’ll all be aware I am no stranger to tramping the streets of a foreign country in search of (hopefully) interesting photos. But my recent trip to India was a holiday pure and simple, so for a change I travelled light. Just my mirrorless R6 and four lenses.

FM Judging: Black & White Countryside

Many thanks to everyone who joined us online for this week's FM Judging session. If you couldn't make it on the night, as always here is the video of the hour's chat about each entry.

To crop or not to crop, that is the question

I have often advocated for minimal cropping and using the transform panel in Lightroom/Adobe Camera Raw to crop within the aspect ratio of the image, while at the same time retaining resolution, writes Andrew James.

FM Judging: Sense of Speed

In this video we talk through the entries from January's Foto Mission - Sense of Speed. The winning images are shown beneath the video player.

Reading the contrast for Black & White

All photography needs contrast – it’s one of the most important elements that shapes every photo’s composition. With colour photography, the colour itself can provide a lot of what we need to understand the shapes within the scene and make sense of the composition. However, that’s not the case with ...Read More

FM Judging: Your best photo of 2023

Wow - what an amazing set of images you took in 2023. This lot left Foto-Buzz HQ with a huge headache in picking the winners. We can honestly say that every single one of them was worthy of the top three.

Small changes, big differences.

Andrew takes you through a basic checklist of processing changes you can follow for any picture. You might not need them all, but it will ensure your critically assess and improve an image successfully.

FM judging: ROCK

In this video we talk through the entries from December's Foto Mission. Winning images are shown beneath the video player.