Adventures in digital SLR photography
Canon has announced the release of another new lens in the acclaimed L-seris; the EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM telephoto zoom lens. It is the successor to the very popular EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM and offers improved performance in every area. Large f/2.8 aperture for optimum low light performance and shallow depth of [...]
These two photographs of a rusty Morris Minor were taken last autumn during a visit to the Willowpool Garden Centre in Cheshire. The car was located inside quite a large green and white striped polytunnel. The stripes and colours of the polytunnel were difficult to exclude from most of the angles I tried to shoot [...]
The weather today has been unusually mild for the tale end of October. As the weather forecasters are predicting this warm spell will break in a day or two, I decided to get out and about with my camera and take a few shots of the autumnal scenes at Heaton Park in Manchester. Heaton Park [...]
PhotoFriday.com is a website I like to visit on a regular basis. Each Friday the site owners set a photographic challenge and users of the site are requested to submit links to their photographs on the web that match the Friday challenge assignment. The photographs you link to do not have to be taken during [...]
Camera lenses don’t come cheap. Even if you buy one from the bottom end of the range it is likely to set you back about a hundred quid at the very least. Once you start hitting the mid range lenses you are talking a few hundred and at the top of the range you are [...]
Photo Credit : Camera Slayer Bonfire Night is almost upon us and with it comes the oppurtunity to photograph something you don’t see every day – fireworks. Fireworks are an excellent subject for photographers as the images produced can be very dramatic; the long exposures produce wonderful streams of coloured light against the dark backdrop [...]