Recent content by Liam O'Neill

I use a tripod and a bubble level for 99.5% of my pictures so most of the time I'll have the composition right in-camera but if I did need to crop I'd have no hesitation in doing so.

The only time I have any trouble with leaving my glasses on is when the camera is sitting near ground level and I can't lie down to look through the view finder. I don't have live view but I can just take a shot and check composition from that. For anything else I don't even notice the glasses.

I think we can be fairly confident he sold her stuff that actually does sell for £1500. It really would be a con if he's sent her off with a Canon 1100d and kit lens for that money but that is unlikely. After that it's back on her. More expensive cameras and lens do tend to have "better"...

I went to Kimmeridge Bay on Saturday to take some sunset pictures. I'd not been there before so I did my usual habit of walking around to get the feel of the place - stopping to take a picture of the tower - before settling into a spot for the sunset shots. I then spent a few minutes checking...

Agreed. Shooting film can become limiting. I found the freedom of digital a breath of fresh and started taking more shots than I had done previously, I just coupled with this attitude of finding the best shots before taking the camera out. I'd take digital and it's "free" pictures and instant...

I started with film cameras eventually working up to a full SLR before moving to digital. Looking back now the biggest lesson I brought with me from the film days was exactly the subject and composition element of taking a picture. If you go to a location then with digital you can just take...