Recent content by bjtaylor

I use lightroom (or “lightroom cloud” or “lightroom cc” as it is known) but cannot fathom lightroom classic at all. Occasionally use photoshop if I need layers.

Or maybe, all trees but one in a given copse should be felled, then more trees would be lone, and there would be more potential photos...and lone tree photos would be more varied...

I'm not even sure the yellow flower picture above is overexposed. To my tastes anyway. What is a tell tale sign that it's overexposed / makes anybody think it's overexposed? The flower is slightly out of focus, which I think is probably due you having moved very slightly towards or away from...

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I agree - I feel if I ask people for their permission to include them in a photo, they might pose, or look at the camera and smile, etc. and I don't want that

Agree - like I say I don't think "street photography" (or at least candid street photography) even is my preferred genre. I'll still hopefully enjoy taking photos of 'places' but will probably just be more careful to avoid including pictures of people in them in future. I think on this occasion...

He might have been interested in seeing it, getting a copy - but I very much doubt it. I'm 99.99% sure it was a pull-up that I'd contravened his subjective set of morals about what people are "allowed" to do. I think my attitude is basically that winning him over is probably a lost cause - he's...

Thanks - I sort of get what you’re saying. I’m always interested in tips from others so thanks. I wasn’t really concealing what I was doing, but I was being quite quick rather than contemplative, and the camera although small ish is a film slr so it does make a clack noise so is not super...

Was shouted "Oi!" at today when I was wandering round the town centre taking photos (or at least I think I was). I just fired off a very quick shot towards a cafe, which was framing no-one in particular (there were people in the shot but there was no single person who was the subject, and I...

the eyes look weird as well. Like they’re from a wiser animal than a sheep is. A sheep’s eyes should look a bit more…. care-free. It’s actually frowning, sheep aren’t meant to be able to frown

Did you know, in spot the ball competitions, the “correct “ answer isn’t where the ball actually was, but where some ‘expert’ decides it should have been (using an image with it already cloned out, ie playing the game themselves). Why? Because apparently the gambling commission forbids betting...

Allegedly, on some phones, if you take a picture that includes the moon, it recognises the moon, and downloads a stock hi-res version and replaces it with that. Criminal, I know. And might well be a myth or toggleable setting, but I have heard it. iPhones definitely have the fake bokeh option...

It could be argued that the AI isn't "generating" a picture of a seal, deer, or squirrel, but copying an existing one, and just putting a different background on it. AI only knows what a seal looks like by seeing a previous photograph of one. And memorising/storing it. So it could be argued...

I went before Christmas. There were some fairly interesting and dramatic street photos in an exhibition on the top floor by an Italian photographer who took photos of mafia violence in the 70s in sicily. The other floors weren't as great in my opinion, they made the best job of displaying it...

What company are you with please if you don’t mind me asking? From what I can tell eversure cover the dropped in a river scenario, but left on a bus is excluded as “left unattended”. The only pernicious thing about their loss cover is the example they give is the camera strap “snapping”, subtly...