Should you watermark your images? The pros and cons, and the ways you can do it.
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Pep Ventosa is the photographer who has made popular the technique of walking all around a subject taking photographs, and then combining all the shots in a multi-layered final image. He uses hundreds of shots to create his masterpieces, but you can get started using only 3 or 4 layers.
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Fun stuff, helpful stuff, critical stuff - nine things you might have missed at the Photo Show 2019.
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No ads, no data mining. Just a place to meet other people doing A Year With My Camera.
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Once you’ve worked out how to change your aperture, it can be tempting to work with what you know and never really dig deeper into what your camera can do. I’ll bet you never knew your camera could do at least one of these things.
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Last year A Year With My Camera set out to raise £7,500 to bring safe water to a community that doesn’t have it. Last week I heard about the actual project we will be building.
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A photographer’s tools are light and time. What happens when you push the limits of the second? Just how long can you leave your shutter open for? And why would you want to?
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Objective, dispassionate, honest self-criticism is the only way to improve your landscape photography. You know how easy it is to point out flaws in someone else’s shots? You need to start doing that to your own shots.
If that’s a bit vague, here are some thoughts to help you:
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Do you want to learn how to use your camera off auto once and for all?
Do you want to know WHY you need f4 for a blurred background?
Do you want to be able to react to changing light and fix your settings without thinking about it?
If the answer to these questions is, “Yes”, then you need to burn your cheatsheets today.
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