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Laundry lid

I have just bought an iPhone 4S, not because I was unhappy with my 3GS in any way but because my other half needed to replace her faulty 3GS and the most cost effective way of doing this was to buy a new phone through work with a substantial discount and corporate pricing. As expected,

The Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea

The Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea, a photo by kyber on Flickr. A long-exposure evening shot of the Dylan Thomas Theatre on the Marina in Swansea. I rarely have the patience to wait with the camera on a tripod to get these kind of shots. I do rather like it though. The effect is great, and

Portraiture camera settings

On a photography group on linkedin someone asked for advice on what settings worked best for portraiture. I replied thus: You have great advice, and a wonderful example (which I have made a favourite on flickr).Let me add some basics, apologies for teaching you to suck eggs if you know all this already, but just

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Great day on holiday in Swanse…

Great day on holiday in Swansea with the Mrs. Out and about with the camera. Nothing spectacular captured, but we enjoyed ourselves.

Tips for a model to get a few simple shots with a compact camera

Some advice given to a model who was a little too far away to come to me for a portfolio shoot. Key to starting your portfolio is to get some good basic shots showing you in a few simple poses.I am going to assume that you have access to a basic compact camera, something a

Church

Church Originally uploaded by kyber Pretty much every week since August 2009, I have driven down to Swansea from my home town in the Telford area every Monday morning and back home on a Thursday evening. Much of the time I see beautiful scenery that I think would make for fantastic landscape photography. Usually though

Shooting portraits

On a group on Facebook, a beginner posted links to some nice vivid family photos and asked how he could do the same. I posted the reply below. His own camera is a Nikon D90 with a 50mm f1.8 prime lens. Yes, you can achieve the same sort of results with your camera. The Nikon

Raw v. Jpeg again

Revisiting the raw v. jpeg debate, a key difference is that the raw file is what the sensor captured without any processing (other than some compression, if selected) being applied whereas a jpeg (or TIFF) is what the camera itself post-processed from the sensor data in accordance with various camera processing settings. The preview on