Vanguard Up Rise 45 review by Steve Davison We recently held a competition on David Fleet Photography with a great prize of a Vanguard Up-rise 45 camera backpack up for grabs courtesy of Vanguard. The lucky winner was Steve Davison, a landscape photographer based in Yorkshire and after an extended amount of time with his new Up-rise 45 he has been kind enough to provide...
Learn MoreWas Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Worth the Wait? A Lightroom 4 Review With the long waiting period over, Adobe has finally released its latest version of Photoshop in the form of Lightroom 4. This highly anticipated release follows the release of the Beta tester a few months ago which met to rave reviews from its early critics. Now that we’ve had a few weeks to...
Learn MoreLightroom 4 collections Don’t forget to pick up your copy of Lightroom 4 through my Amazon link below. It wont cost you anymore but allows me to earn a small commission which helps towards the upkeep of the site. Thanks to all those who buy anything at all through my links, no matter how small it all helps. Adobe Lightroom 4.0 (Mac/PC) Ok, so now you have managed to...
Learn MorePhotoshop Lightroom 4 Tutorial So I recently upgraded to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 because I liked some of it’s new features including soft proofing and the ability to make localised white balance adjustments. After having used Lightroom 3 for a number of years for my work as a professional landscape photographer and written a number of tutorials on it I thought...
Learn MoreWhere you can view my Hebrides Art Work If you are coming to visit the Outer Hebrides this year and want to see my images on display then you will be able to do so at a number of high quality venues. I am delighted that this year some of my Fine Art Prints will be on display at the fantastic Finsbay Gallery in the Bays area of South Harris. This pretty Isle of Harris...
Learn MoreCanon Eos 5D mk 3 So the all new Canon EOS 5D mk 3 has been announced , is it what you expected and hope for? Below are the essential specs and don’t forget you can Pre order yours through Warehouse Express by clicking below Key 5D3 features 22.3 Megapixel Full Frame CMOS sensor DiG!C 5+ Image Processor ISO 100-25600 (expandable to L:50 H1:51200, H2:...
Learn MoreWhich camera filters do you need? There are literally hundreds of different types of camera filters aimed at manipulating your images before they are taken. Filters can be really useful tools to help you get the look you want in your images but these days with great Photo shop tools available to us do we really need all these expensive filters? Well as a...
Learn MoreAs I briefly mentioned in my article on the Exposure triangle Aperture can be explained as the width of the lens opening which lets light into the camera, the wider this opening the more quickly light is allowed in to the camera and onto its sensor (or film). If you want to allow light in more quickly then you simply use a larger aperture. Aperture is measured...
Learn MoreAnother element of the photographic triangle which I talked about in my article The exposure triangle is Shutter Speed which relates to the amount of time which the shutter remains open to let light onto your sensor, it is measured in time ranging from 30 seconds or more to 1/8000th of a second or less. Again shutter speed can be measured in stops and changing...
Learn MoreThe best way I have ever heard to explain ISO is to imagine that your camera is a bee hive and that ISO represents the number of bees and light is represented as honey. When there are just 100 bees they can collect x amount of honey in a certain amount of time. If you double the number of bees to 200 hundred (equivalent to increasing by 1 stop) they could collect the...
Learn MoreThe Exposure Triangle The exposure triangle or photographic triangle refers to the inter-connected relationship of the 3 elements that make up an exposure or image. In the excellent book Understanding Exposure Bryan Peterson explains about the reciprocal relationship between Aperture, shutter speed and ISO and that if one element is altered it effects the...
Learn MoreLandscape Photography: Lines It’s easy to take a photograph of your surroundings, and you might get...
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