Photography Made Simple

Spot the difference!

Phil and Rachel — Thu, 17 May 2012 11:19:13 +0000

While we were in London we took Yum-Yum to see his sister Tallulah. See if you can spot the difference!

The trick to this kind of photo is to ensure that you’re at eye level as much as possible, and think about your shutter speed if you want to catch the hair flying etc. Some of these were done on an ISO of 800 to speed things along a bit. Also, as the dogs were running towards the camera, I used AF-C (Canon AF Servo) to track the movement. Don’t often use this feature, but it seemed to work better than pre-focusing on a spot as the dog movements were a bit random!

One to one teaching photography teaching in London

Phil and Rachel — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:37:36 +0000

Rachel spent the day with Pete, a disabled serviceman who lives in Balham, near Crystal Park. Although Pete was originally signed up for a day course, because of mobility problems we upgraded him to a day of one to one photography training at our expense. They went to Battersea Park to get some creative professional-looking shots. Luckily, Pete had already bought a 50mm f1.8 lens, although he hadn’t really used it much before, so here was his chance, to go from Auto to this in a day:

Pete is very keen to get some of his artwork up on the walls at home – with shots like this he’ll be spoilt for choice, well done Pete – makes us proud!

Chatsworth BBC Documentary

Phil and Rachel — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:37:26 +0000

Lovely to see Chatsworth on the BBC last night – we saw them filming this a few times. You can see how the team spirit is built up among the workers, and it’s great to see behind the scenes.

Police Photography Rules

Phil and Rachel — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:13:02 +0000

If you are confused about police powers on photography, whether you are entitled to photograph or not there is a useful article here from the Metropolitan Police.
You may also want to check out the I’m a photographer not a terrorist website.

We’ve not had many issues ourselves, but it’s worth reminding nosey neighbours/security guards/misinformed policemen etc etc what your rights are to photograph in a public place.

One to One Photography tuition in Sheffield, 5 May 2012

Phil and Rachel — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:07:29 +0000

Rachel went to Sheffield to teach Helen to take professi0nal looking photos of her lovely children, Otis and Oscar. Rachel got Helen using her 50mm prime lens, which she now loves. She also encouraged Helen to fill the frame and not be scared to get in close. Here are some of the results:

Thanks to Helen for letting us use the photos following her one to one photography tuition!

This month’s Photography Mentoring Service photograph selection

Phil and Rachel — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:03:34 +0000

April’s pictures had the theme “standing out from the crowd,” and the range of subject and ideas was truly staggering. Here is a small subset of the pictures sent in, no more than one picture per person except in once instance where we couldn’t decide and put two in!! Brilliant stuff!