Leading Lines can mislead
Don't get misled by leading lines. After a lifetime working as a professional photographer, I still learn something from every photography student who comes to me for tuition. Yes, every single one. Where's this leading…
Street Photography Workshop in the rain
It was a Street Photography Workshop in the rain yesterday when members of the Newport Camera Club came to Shrewsbury. The club's next photo competition? Yes, it was Street Photography Workshop in the…
One-to-One photography lessons
I do enjoy doing the one-to-one photography lessons. It gives me a tremendous buzz when a photographer comes along in the morning gasping to learn and, just a few hours later, goes away with a…
TIP for sharper photographs
Sharper photographs - easy! If you're fed up of blurry street photography images, here's Philip's simple TIP for sharper photographs. It's easy to do and it costs nothing. Now, while this may not be the…
Night Photography Workshop
I did my first Night Photography Workshop last night after a lockdown break of many months. What a pleasure to be out again in the evening meeting keen photographers and introducing them to the joys…
Photography courses are starting again
My photography courses are starting again. Hooray! As we come carefully out of lockdown restrictions, I feel able to start up my photography courses again. I did my first one-to-one photography course the other day…
Lockdown snaps
Simple Lockdown Snaps In my last post I talked about getting out with your camera during lockdown to photograph landscapes - but let's not get pompous and sniffy about cameras - what about simple lockdown…
Lockdown Landscapes
So what sort of photography can we enjoy during lockdown? Well, what about a session of lockdown landscapes for at start? Many of the things we photographers enjoy have been taken away from us this…
Flash powder and trilby hats
“Gives a lovely soft light, does flash powder, better than all this new electric stuff,” Dougie would declare emphatically. ‘But isn’t flash powder explosive and a bit dangerous?” I once asked innocently, recollecting the sight…
Flash Powder
Flash Powder At the Advertiser, the photo-sales were printed by old Dougie. Way beyond the age of retirement, and certainly in his late seventies, Dougie was a formidable character; a former chief photographer on the…