If you’ve been taking pictures since before autofocus arrived, you’ll be very familiar with focus scales – they are one of the primary controls on an old-school camera, and just one more of the things that you really needed to get right. With autof...0
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27 Dec 2022 7:01AM | Read
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People commented on the look in my last post and it seems like a good idea to share the secrets for Christmas. I learned the technique several years ago: a model’s boyfriend told me about it, and a website that described it in detail: I tried it, l...1
23 Dec 2022 10:47AM | Read
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If you have your own darkroom, or if you use film cameras regularly, there are always a few people who mention the attic. As in ‘Grandpa’s cameras are in the attic. I don’t even know if they have film in them!’ This leads me to ask if I can have a l...0
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16 Aug 2022 11:17AM | Read
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There’s an old saying about being a big fish and a little pond. Do you want to be the most important person in a small organisation, or are you content being a relatively small cog in a big machine? It’s the same in photography. With relatively mo...0
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3 Jun 2022 2:25PM | Read
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This is for Hannah, and anyone else who has come across the casual way that a lot of togs talk about one or two types of filter that landscaper photographers use a lot: graduated filters and neutral density filters. A graduated filter is one that i...0
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25 Apr 2022 12:18PM | Read
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I remember the maritime rule from a Sixties TV series called Misleading Cases, adapted from stories by AP Herbert. The central character delighted in exploiting the quirks of British law. In the case in question, he explained that a flooded road had...0
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22 Apr 2022 8:21AM | Read
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There are positive consequences of being Guest Editor, as well as a requirement to spend time online. I’ve adopted the approach that dark_lord mentioned in a response to my earlier blog, and I look at the images full size, not just the thumbnails. A...0
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13 Apr 2022 11:26AM | Read
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I’ve decided how to deal with the idea that one shouldn’t just give awards to one’s friends. Along with GE awards for pictures that I think meet the highest standards, I’m using my own user awards for pictures that are a bit more niche. I don’t kn...0
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12 Apr 2022 6:10PM | Read
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Once or twice over the last couple of years friends here at Ephotozine have suggested I try a stint as Guest Editor. I’ve always balked at the idea, because I realized quite a long time ago that I never wanted to be absolutely in charge of anything...0
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11 Apr 2022 2:31PM | Read
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It occurred to me, looking at the comments on my recent drone post, that I’ve written an article about drones – but that the little device itself didn’t figure (well – it was so much less interesting than what Steve does with one!) So I’m setting ...0
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3 Apr 2022 4:02PM | Read
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This blog involves uncomfortable truths, harm reduction and the difference between lived experience and theoretical moralising. That's a trigger warning... I’ve been reading a book about the legalities of lapdancing clubs in the UK, The Ethical Str...0
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24 Mar 2022 11:03AM | Read
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Those who share my upbringing, middle-class British, within living memory of two world wars will possibly also share my knowledge of Biggles books and Airfix models. The two were often linked! For those not in the know, James Charles Bigglesworth w...0
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20 Mar 2022 10:42AM | Read
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How do you write an obituary for someone you have never met, and who most of the people you are writing for will never have heard of? I know about Iain Thompson because so many models have spoken well of him: a genuinely nice chap, who had followed...0
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17 Mar 2022 8:14AM | Read
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I’ve been listening to a Radio 4 Extra programme about ‘light music’ – easy to listen to, and hard to define. We’ve all heard it, even those of us too young to remember the BBC Light Programme, its natural home. Many TV and radio programmes use it: ...0
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14 Mar 2022 8:43AM | Read
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Part of my modus operandi when I photographed models is that I send them small and unedited copies of all of the images, so that they can choose which ones I edit for them to post on their profiles. Sometimes, nothing comes back: sometimes the mode...0
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11 Mar 2022 9:50AM | Read
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