Category Archives: Guide

We’re lucky with Fuji cameras in that we can assign almost every button to another function should we need to. Using the X-20 you have even more user definable buttons than newer models, meaning you rarely have to go into the system menus. I’ll run through exactly how I’ve set up my camera, which IContinue reading “How I Set Up My Fuji Camera”

Taking photos is easy, anyone can do it! However, here are my top 20 tips for getting a better photography experience. With many decades of experience in using a both an analogue 35mm camera, digital SLR camera’s and selling photos and services, I have found these to be invaluable! 01. Be prepared the day before – Forget all theContinue reading “20 Tips For Better Photography”

Sometimes it’s just nice to strip away the colour from a scene and tell a different story. Sometimes the colours around you are so desaturated, there’s hardly any colour so it may as well be monochrome. There are times that you see the beautiful interplay of shadows and highlights, and only monochrome will work as youContinue reading “A Guide To Making Mono Photographs”

Introduction:Presets and LUTs are a staple of digital photography, and they have very specific and different uses, although they seem very similar. Where as a preset is a set of instructions that tells your image to display particular contrast, saturation, sharpness, including all the basic settings and indeed even more complex instructions such as borders,Continue reading “The Importance Of Presets And LUTs”

Many of us have old photographs that we think would look better in colour, and with modern software packages it is easier than ever to get this done with minimal effort, but a considerable amount of time. This article looks at using Gimp and Affinity Photo for colourising your old photographs. There are plenty of tutorialsContinue reading “Complete Guide To Colourising A Photograph”