Photography as I See & Shoot it!
Written by Charles David
Every so often I get the urge to play with Nik Efex. I can’t help myself, it’s such a fantastic artistic resource for photographers. The above image, not to everyone’s liking I’ll agree, is a simply me throwing a straight image from a photoshoot back in 2019 (which seems an age ago now) and playing […]
Written by Charles David
Not being able to accurately digitise film makes it pretty difficult to work out if you actually took good pictures or not. Was the focus off, was the lighting good, was the subject matter sufficiently interesting to even bother! This is exactly the position I found myself in recently when I decided to experiment with […]
Written by Charles David
Anyone following this blog will know that I love experimenting with photography. Whether that is playing with film, building stuff, digitising my negatives on a shoestring or just having fun with stuff like Nik Efex. A couple of weeks ago I was experimenting with digitising negatives and it became very clear that the lenses available […]
Written by Charles David
I’ve mentioned the Lomography Digitalizer 35mm Film Scanning Mask (Lomography Digitalizer) in a few of my blogs but I thought I’d focus specifically on it for this one. Firstly, the Lomography Digitalizer is a simple scanning mask which can clamp and hold a strip of up to six 35mm colour or B&W negatives. You could […]
Written by Charles David
Every so often a piece of software is born that truly excels at what it does. One such gem is Nik Efex. Originally developed by Google as a range of free software applications for various tasks, Nik Efex has now been taken on by camera / lens guru’s DxO. The big change though is that […]
Written by Charles David
When you join a photography club it can be for several reasons. You might want to associate with others having similar interests. You might want to learn about photography. You might simply join in order to be able to enter competitions. Whatever your reason, what you need to do when you start your club journey […]
Written by Charles David
A photography blog isn’t much use without images. Today’s walk was a goldmine of the everyday offering up the unusual with more than enough going on to help me put this little blog together. For a change, I was porting the nifty pocket sized Canon GX7 Mk ii compact and decided to put it into […]
Written by Charles David
You’re probably thinking at this point that by hammered I mean blind rolling drunk. Regrettably, no, although I wish I had been. What I actually mean is that yet again I enter a competition in good spirit and faith only for my images to be misunderstood or worse still, sidelined. Now, before going further I […]
Written by Charles David
According to Wikipedia, William Heath Robinson was an English cartoonist, illustrator and artist, best known for drawings of whimsically elaborate machines to achieve simple objectives. In the UK, the term “Heath Robinson contraption” gained dictionary recognition around 1912 and became part of popular language during the First World War 1914–1918 as a description of any […]
Written by Charles David
I’m not a huge fan of club competitions even though I sit on my clubs judging panel for the various club battles, both local and international, and salon competitions that we as a club might enter. I do this because I feel that as someone with interests outside of landscape, portrait, sport and wildlife I […]