Great Free Software for Our Book Project!
In order to make the gathering of photos and compiling of the Urban Wildlife Book easier, I thought it might be good if I could find some suitable photo file sharing software. I have found something that gives us privacy and can handle large files. This is less cumbersome than sending stuff by email, where your file size might be restricted, and has the advantage of putting everything automat…
Urban Wildlife Picture Book
I am thinking of putting together a book showing the best of our Urban Wildlife Group in time for Christmas.
The people I will use to publish the book would be Blurb.com who have software that allows one to design a very professional looking book including a dust jacket with inner flaps. Their pages also allow for text so one can make anything from a coffee table extr…
How Not To Photograph A Wedding
Many moons ago when I was a young assistant to top London fashion photographer John Cowan, Frank Buck, John’s senior assistant introduced me to a firm of photographers in the East End of London that specialised in weddings. Frank was making a few extra bucks (ha, ha, that was his name) and suggested I might do the same. This became my ‘Saturday job’ for a while.
We had to go equipped with …
Congratulations!
Congratulations to LjMaxx for her winning entry Sitting on a lily pad in the Urban Insect Challenge.
A £10 RedBubble Gift Certificate will be travelling through cyber space to land in Lj’s mailbox shortly.
Lighting The Head Shot
“If God had intended photographers to use more than one key light, he would have made more suns.”
Just about every single shot including the food and still life shots in my portfolio was made with one light. One light in the right place. You won’t need any more except possibly to light a background. In this case make sure that they light the background, and do not spill back on to the sub…
Urban Wildlife
New Group – Urban Wildlife
Hosted by Nic Relton and myself.
We’re really keen to see images of wildlife in an urban environment!
We don’t mind if your bird is perched on a chimney, your butterfly is on a wall, or if your polar bear is raiding a garbage bin. We simply want to see those i…
Featured Work
I just wanted to say that I have two featured works in Redbubble at the moment. The first is ‘Miggy’ in the 60 and Beyond Group and ‘Pappardele Alla Casa Mia’ in the Food For Thought Group.