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.

 

Printful

So i am looking at the print and demand market places and i have found the previous two i previously mentioned fineartameria and redbubble.

But i have now tried another, by the way this is not been costing me any money to do anything or publish the products to the websites, until..

Any way to begin i tried a couple of other website and did work correctly in the UK, but this website has been able to connect me to some good well known website, ebay still hasnt worked but not a problem.

I have two other websites that i am currenlty connected to Esty and Wish, "right" Wow did i hear someone say?? no.

no didnt think so but i have connected and been able to submit 8 products one thing i can say is that wish takes a couple of days to get varified and you need to put in some form of ID, Also Esty yes you will get every product on the website for 3 months for 20 cents/ 16p, which is not bad and if i get one sale then bonus. We will see in the next few months if i will.

Photography Blogging

How often is too much,

How many time a month should I make a diary of what i have been up too. 

Well i would assume i would have to have done something , but having to make a blog would mean i need to do something, bit of  chicken and egg.

Ok since the last time i have been able to take some photos using the lens ball i will upload them next time, really fun. BUT be careful in the sun as you can burn yourself as you would expect big ball of glass and a magnified point of the sun, i didnt burn my self but just a small hot spot on my hand. 

I have been updating the redbubble (RB) redbubble, fineartamerica (FAA) fineartamerica accounts.

I have found another site that i may move towards which is https://www.printful.com/ these are similar to the print on demand sites i have previously mentioned doesnt have all the items i have on other sites that i can see yet but only been on the site for three days.

Having trouble with attaching to ebay accoutn at the moment but that may be because i am in the UK and have a .co.uk ebay account - we shall see.

Alternativly i have opened a wish account so you never know both larger websites to the RB (check above what that means), just waiting to be approved as it take 3 business days.

On another positive note i have been updating the galleries n the old website www.1978photography.co.uk

take a look most of the images are on the purchaseable sites to head over and take a look.

Happy Fathers Day

So today is fathers day, happy day to you if you are lucky enough to be a dad.

I am too and have recieved 

a Lensball                                                     and a simple profile T-stand   

So an ideas of what i can photo, give some idea, I will prceed to do some colour shots bokeh style as i have the lights for it.

Other thing i have tried with my lens that i took apart as it was broken but i will be doing plenty of landscape shots with this in the foreground. So ideas i have found and i think is a good start https://gridfiti.com/lensball-photography/, personally i like the water reflection idea.

Profile stand well thats a new one for me as i dont like photographing people, as you can probably see i all of my images are products, landscapes, nature and animals. So catalogue images are what i will be trying as i develop my print on demand images.

Purchases

Ok through this furlough scheme and period.

I have been looking and developing my phohotgraphy again, while also changing and updating my website.

This meant learning, from reading websites and choosing what worked the best for me.

I have read through many websites... telling me of how to make this better do this differently, yes they are all ok but i have done what i think works for now, (I am sure i will keep changing).

So i eventually got to print on demand sites, great idea but i does mean that the items choosen are a bit more expensive.

But i means that you dont have to print out and hold onto stock in a warehouse, garage at home or piled up in one of the rooms in your house too.

So i have found two that seem to work, by what i mean as simple to set up and you get to see the results quickly, that may mean a limitation in items but its done and it makes me feel like i have achieved something.

take a look.

photography1978/shop

 

redbubble the first i have found, works really well you can select the prices you would like to make on each product, that means like a shirt cost of the company is $14 and then you add on top the price of your image, picture, drawing or logo. bascially what ever you want on products.

Second.

photography1978/shop

fineartamerica is another website i found that does pretty similar job both good a simple to set up. Again they have the value of the basic products and then you add on what you would like to make from a sale. This one is more for the photographers though as you can enter contests and get noticed, seem a bit more socially active which i am not sure about as being on there one afternoon and i have already had some strange email sent to me from a spammer, but i will see where it goes, no news is good.