Recent content by fingerz

A 30D without the battery grip is small enough for Street work. The 35mm prime is a more useful focal length but the 50mm prime is smaller and lighter so it's six to one and half a dozen to the other on the lens issue./

Yay shmay, you could've been in the pub.

Did Tim find an oil well or something?

Looked at Dave Hill's stuff before and liked it. Do you have any info on his technique? Again, the results look better than anything I've ever seen from Photomatix so I guess he must be doing a lot of layer tweaking.

Done a bit of digging... She shoots medium format so I'd be surprised if she used HDR.

If you didn't know that no camera in the world could capture that range of lighting and we hadn't been talking about HDR, you probably couldn't.

I think there's a bit of a misunderstanding here. I don't know if Lonna Tucker's photographs are HDR or not. Clearly she's manipulating the photos somehow because no camera on Earth can capture that kind of of dynamic range, but I don't know what her technique is and personally, I think it must...

Pete - there's a challenge for you.

Forget the locations and look at this image of hers: Anything stand out for you? Answer - she's shooting into the light. Go outside on a sunny day to somewhere with a tree and try to copy that shot (doesn't have to be exact, just anything shooting into the light - with the sun in the...

http://lonnatucker.com ^^ Just when you think you're starting to get the hang of photography, you see a professional's site and it becomes clear why they get paid for it and you don't. I don't normally like landscape stuff but it's all so sickeningly good. Completely...

Don't forget the hit rate. If you're a professional photographer/artist then that's what you fill your days with. And if you're out there most days, you'll get the chances to take some truly great photographs. Have a look at the yearly output from famous snappers you admire. They don't produce...

A lot of these 'tips & tricks' go against the whole ethos of street photography. Standing in public with a camera concealed under your jacket is only going to reinforce the idea that you're doing something shifty, when the emphasis ought to be on building the confidence to take the pictures...

Olde-worlde SLR cameras used 35mm film, which had an aspect ratio of 3:2. Digital SLR cameras continue to use the same shape. Pre-widescreen televisions had an aspect ratio of 4:3 and for some reason the vast majority of point'n'shoot digital cameras use that shape, instead of 3:2. I suspect...

Well we've all heard of the rule of thirds and we all tend to make an effort to place our foreground objects at interesting points in the frame, rather than just lumping them dead-centre. So with that in mind, I do think corner sharpness is very important. Perhaps even more so than centre...