I’m working on the keywording post I promised but first I thought I would write some more about how I organise my Aperture library. I’m aware that these blog posts are long, but I hope that explaining my thinking from start to finish on a particular area is more useful than just posting the [...]
Jim Correia asked a great question in a comment to my last post that I thought deserved a wider airing:
What are the criteria, and when do you delete masters? Only rejects? Immediately?
My answer is that I very rarely delete images these days. Just yesterday, a colleague at school emailed me asking if I had [...]
Someone asked me recently about how I work through my photographs after I shoot. When I go out to photograph, I shoot a lot - most people I go out with are usually surprised at the number of frames I produce. It’s not uncommon for me to take the kids to the park and [...]
I’ve gathered together my favourite twelve photographs of 2007, one from each month. I had a couple of bumper months this year, from which I could have chosen several great shots (April, August and October in particular), but these are my pick of the months.
January
Weather Front
I shot this on a cold, early sunset last January. [...]
Nobody likes to think about faithful friends dying, but Micah Walter has brought up again a subject that I try not to think about very much: data lock-in. As data-locked-in computer users go, I’m not very locked in. I mostly live in text files, source code, email and the web. I have some [...]
One of my favourite techniques for taking unusual shots is just to hod the camera by my side and fire it as I walk past. The technique only really works with wide-angle lenses, since they at least give you a fighting chance of getting the subject in the frame without looking.
Canon EOS 30D, Canon [...]
Someone asked me tonight whether they should buy the Canon EOS 400D or the Nikon D80. The only answer I could honestly give was “choose whichever one feels best in your hands”. Choose the one whose control layout falls under your fingers. Choose the one that feels right. Choose the one you like better.
Don’t [...]
It’s hard at this time of the year, at this latitude, to do much photography outdoors without a tripod and a lot of warm clothing. I’ve been working on some indoor stuff, practicing my Strobist-fu and seeing where I can go with that stuff.
I’ve struggled to get April to pose for portraits, without turning it [...]
I visited Edinburgh Castle with my friend Neil yesterday. It was really great - I hadn’t appreciated how much there was to see in there.
There are at least three army museums, the crown jewels of Scotland and the Stone of Destiny. The Royal Apartments are the part of the castle in which James I was [...]
I don’t really think my photography could be said to have a particular ’style’. The very thought seems hopelessly pretentious. Still, I was looking through my Aperture library a while ago and noticed that the number of images I’ve shot with my EF-S 10-22mm lens is dramatically higher than I would have expected for such [...]
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