Affinity Studio: Affinity Photo Has Gone Free!

Canva’s relaunch of the Affinity suite as the all-new Affinity Studio is a seismic event in the creative software landscape, transforming its three powerful desktop applications—Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher—into a single, unified platform that is now, surprisingly, completely free. Affinity has always been a powerful photo editing package, but it has always been heldContinue reading “Affinity Studio: Affinity Photo Has Gone Free!”

Annual Family Pumpkin Carving!

This year, like every year, the family get together to carve the pumpkins ready for Halloween. It is messy, it is fun, and it is a perfect photo opportunity! All photos straight from camera jpegs in Nikon Standard (saturation +2) and cropped to 5:4 ratio. I used the Nikon ZF with the Z50mm F/1.4 lens.Continue reading “Annual Family Pumpkin Carving!”

A Walk Up Drummau Mountain

16,000 steps, a good few hours, 892 feet (272m) and a pub grub later we had a lovely day together as a family. Walking from where we parked at The Loft pub, situated below the mountain, we took the winding paths though sun, rain, wind and the kids being kids, and made it to theContinue reading “A Walk Up Drummau Mountain”

The Source Of Photography – My New FREE Ebook

Those of you who follow me on social media will know that I’ve been advertising and working on the his book for a little while. The idea came about when I realised I had built up a backlog of articles for the website onecameraonelens.com, and so to compliment my unreleased articles I re-wrote some olderContinue reading “The Source Of Photography – My New FREE Ebook”

How I set up my Nikon ZF (and other cameras) for accurate and consistent usage in work and play.

I have both my Nikon Z6ii and Nikon ZF cameras set up very similarly, but this article is concentrating on the Nikon ZF because it allows you to do a few things that are either not available, or can’t be done on single button presses on the Nikon Z6ii Focusing The most important part ofContinue reading “How I set up my Nikon ZF (and other cameras) for accurate and consistent usage in work and play.”