Lochnagar

So i have been to aberdeen now as you seen in my last post and i was...

Good really the town is known for being the granite city, and that is so true each building is grey. But the building are an acritectural wonder looking like a scene from a fairy tale some time. 

Being right next to the sea i though well it going to be cold. WRONG. I was warm and worn shorts all the time is was there, nice tanned legs you see now. 😀

Anyways i have been looking at questions again to answer then i will get to showing some of the shots i took.

So i have been seeing alot of questions of when will there be a photography show avaliable well there is one i have been a couple of times before when i was able to visit being local and its the birmingham NEC photography show. https://www.photographyshow.com/ well this year due to all hte problems of covid-19 we arent able to got physically but virtually you can and its FREE. join view and enjoy the toys you can buy.

What photography magazine is best, well this is more what information do you want to read about really i just use the internet nowadays to learn what i want at a particular time, like last time i wanted to leanr how to do multiple exposures so i found a page that i understood and tried it out, couple of week back i wanted to do some work on a cinemagraph so again i found a article that was understandable and i tried it out with some of my own images. 

So this was after listening to a pod cast and so i ran with it and this is one of the attempts that i made what do you think, i like it cause its even more like i am there again taking the photo and loving the country again, which also make me sad.

Anyway

aberdeen i went up Lochnagar it took 8 hours walking in total, but there was also the drive there and the drive back so add 2 hours each way, long day. You need some cash with you for the parking and in the current time a postable toilet or beable to hold for 10 hours the toilets were closed.

in all it was an enjoyable walk and fresh wow windy time but there were some great views and i was so lucky to see 

This was a great find by my partner she saw them and told me, it was great being able to see, may be a once in a life time capture. Long telephoto lens and 

Aberdeen

Hi all,

It seem like i am geeting a few people reading from looking at the statistics of the site, hopefully i am interesting and more of a normal person who does photography, any comments on the multi exposure image it created the other day?? please do contact me and i will have some content to add into the blog.

I found some more myths of photography,

People believe a good camera makes a better photographer.

The camera is a too, the person (photographer) is great because of the skills they have.

everyone learns in their own way but the vision is created by that person too. You can create a image with a single use camera and as the trend is heading back to film camera that are cheaper than the new digital cameras (you can get bundles camera and lenses) on ebay when i just looked a bundle can cost £40-50.

This is where your skill gets real, you will have to wait and see what you have shot no checking the viewfinder or monitor to see if the shot was good. Bit of anticipation more exciting than digital and when you get that shot better feeling.

Now manual camera also means you learn why there is different ISO film. A high iso means a lower amount of light is needed to get a image on the film so 1600 mean low light.

ISO 100 mean sunny days, bit difficult in the UK and may mean you need different cameras if light changes.

Next the aperature now this is how much the eye of the lense controlling the amount of light passing through the lens, of which 

So smaller number then more focus on the subject you want to shoot, smaller number then more objects are in focus

Shutter speed is the amount of light that will be seen by the frame on the film.1/500 and bigger, you will have matrix style skills and beable to freeze time and the image, 1/4 and lower then the image will blur.

A High ISO is bad

This is subjective, i personally learn that a low iso is better as i mentioned. The brighter the day the cleaner the image will be, if you want to shoot with a ISO100 at night then you will need a tripod or a steady hand, unless your a robot it wont work or you will like that type of image. personal choice.

A tripod is always needed for clean shots

Again subjective, i normally shoot without a tripod and i am fine. you want to take a night shot with trailing lights then you will need a tripod, anything long exposure the closer you get to one second exposure, more likely you will need a stable place to mount your camera, a bean bag, tripod, monopod, wall or fence.

 this image didnt have a tripod

Only bright light make good photos

guess, subjective but it is true sometimes above image was in bright light and on a beach, i really enjoyed having the trip but below is a low light image taken in the lake district

without a tripod either.

 So answered some myths moving on soon i will be taking a trip to Aberdeen few hours driving but i will be taking some time to shoot. in the mean time take a look at wish or redbubble and buy some merchandise

Multi exposure

Ok i am preparing to do the multiple exposure today, in the mean time i am having a little difficulty as i will be taking the photos of my self little trouble at the moment as there being no models around.

Been looking at the trends in the search engines and seeing some questions like i will answer myself.

When was phtography first invented

1826 was when the oldest surviving photograph made using a camera taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce around 1826/1827 originating in France, so the camera and all the invention must still be before that how long do things take to be designed and tested?

Can photography be art

Personally i think anything that people produce that someone else is willing to purchase or admire then yes i would say its art, remember that all of us can make art. If you think about it will all write and that is art

Can photography help depression

I would say so if you dont get all technical then yes, walking around your own home you take think but with a camera you can also think about taking different photos.

Where to focus when taking a photograph

Well this one is more subjective than a straight forward answer, it all depends on what you are focusing, there are many type of ways to create a image, you can have out of focus and bokeh when the lights in the image are circles bit like lights at christmas when you squint.

Most tutorials talk about the rule of 2/3rds, 

Where the focal point can be middle, left or right but most of the image is open space so you are drawn to the subject of the image.

Photography shows 2020

Well this one is simple at the start of this year being a complete wake up call for the world and the pandemic happening, No, simply. But as i have just looked through the UK has one near to me i have been to before and that is the photography show at the NEC, birmingham UK. They are happening mostly virtually and why not you can still buy and learn virtually only thing that you cant do is test products and get the nice reductions, while at the show.

shutter speed

Wow, this is a good question. I have always like being able to freeze a subject in mid-air like a dog running, my first camera was a digitial samsung, it took ages to switch on and be ready for me to take a photo I missed so many shots i would like to take. That was the reason for me to upgrade to a dslr camera.

So shutter speed, well again it depends on what you want to capture if its a landscape image then a slow speed, say 1/50 would be okay. but if its windy then you might get blur in the trees moving. Bascically you need to know how you want the image to look.

You want to capture a moving subject the you need a faster shutter 1/500 may be higher, in the image above be able to pan the camera at the same speed to get the background blurred and the subject frozen.

Ok question time over moving on back to the merchandise, so this week i have been progressing with  more images and products on the sites Redbubble and Wish. To which i have had my first sale (ta daaa) great feeling that some liked it, Thank you for purchasing.

So after doing some work on multiple exposure images i have had a go, not as diffcult as you think with the right tutorial and this is my second go but first with my own images and i think its gone well, if you want to have a go this was the link that i follow multiple exposures

POD - Print on demand

So i have been populating the websites i previously mention and i have done quite a bit of merchanise production. Wish is the image below 

Wish Shop front

I have also learned more about the Google search console, meaning i can now follow who is looking at my site, so many of these analysis pages one for twitter, linkedin every page you connect to pretty much has a section to show you traffic.

Wow, i am looking at marketing but i am not paying for the traffic as when i first tried this i never got anything from it apart from a emptier pocket.

So after doing all this of opening website and self  marketing. I have also found crowdfireapp again i have looked through a host of applications to populate my linkedin, twitter feeds and pinterest pins, but this one came out the best for me i can link the previouls mention pages all together.

(I wont connect to facebook as i do not like it and the little part of all images are the websites can be used by them and do you get the recognition, i doubt it. check this link out copytrack.

On that note i can see i have been getting some flow of traffic, which is.. Great more people interested or at least seeing the pages even if they arent reading. so thank you, take a look at the merchandise pages you may buy.

In the mean time i will be doing a double exposure page next want to try and get a metallica album-esk photo down think that may be a good skill, after learning cinemagraphs and getting the lens ball for fathers day.