Christmas Photo

Xmas

Here's something I'm using for this year's virtual Christmas cards: … [Read more...]

Light Canon

Metz 58 AF1

Nope, that's is not a miss-spelling, 'Canon' refers to my Canon 400d, which now sports a heavyweight, in all senses, Metz 58 AF-1 flash unit, more about the 'light' adjective later on. I drooled over this lovely piece of kit some months past, and now I've managed to get my hot little hands on one. … [Read more...]

Added some more photos to my Flickr collection.

Hop on over to Flickr, if you wish, and look at the 'Black and White' set, where you will see some Black and white images of runners. I used a slow shutter, 1/25 to 1/40 to capture the motion of the runners. Just experiments really.The shots were taken next to Milan's Arena yesterday evening. … [Read more...]

Photo printing woes, yet again.

Damn and blast!  Yet again I have been foiled in my attempts to print photographs.  My Canon Pixma 4000 printer catches me out time and time again.  Printing text and graphics is a piece of cake and I rarely have problems.  But photos?  Always problems.  Despite setting borderless prints, I … [Read more...]

Digital exploits.

I took quite a few photos this summer.  Some were good, some were not so great.  I'm still very much learning and experimenting and making lots of mistakes.  Sometimes I understand where I went wrong, other times, I'm not so sure.  Not a problem, although it can be frustrating at times, … [Read more...]