Camera Skills
Using extension tubes
When it comes to gadgets and gizmos, one of the things that makes a huge difference - but is often overlooked - is the humble extension tube, writes Jon Adams. If you’re not familiar with these contra...
Behind the scenes in the Arctic
The dust (or should that be snow?) has settled on this year’s epic trip to the Arctic onboard the Kinfish, and I’m sure, like me, many of those on the trip are only just beginning to look at all the a...
How ‘real’ is your photography?
Unless you’ve been under a rock (or bobbing about in the Arctic) for the last week, you probably noticed that a controversial debate has been reignited in the photo community about the relationship be...
White Balance for city night scenes
When you are photographing the urban environment at night, which is very often the most atmospheric time to capture it, your camera is going to be dealing with lots of technical hurdles, writes Andrew...
Why f/2.8 is great, mate…
For those of you with lenses that enable you to shoot at f/2.8, here’s a question (two actually) we’d like to ask you, writes Andrew James and Jon Adams. Why do you shoot at f/2.8 and how often?
Slowing it all down
In photographic terms f/8 will always be f/8 (actually we could debate this but to keep things simple we won’t), but technology changes a lot about how we shoot and what things we need to shoot with, ...
A grey day in Norfolk
A few days ago I found myself standing by a Norfolk beach before sunrise, trying to work out whether I could see any shapes of grey seals along the shoreline in the darkness, writes Andrew James. Were...