The Digital Photo Frame Conundrum

As many of you know and have read a thousand times, I make the most of my photography by printing out a heck of a lot of photos. Many years ago I used to own a cheap digital photo frame, but for various reasons I stopped using it. So here is the conundrum… Where doContinue reading “The Digital Photo Frame Conundrum”

It looks like a disposable film camera, acts like a disposable film camera, and feels like a disposable film camera.

Honestly, it looks like a disposable film camera, acts like a disposable film camera, and feels like a disposable camera. At a glance it’s a real, genuine film camera. One feel, it’s a film camera. Roll forward the film advance dial and it feels like a disposable camera. Move across the switch and the xenonContinue reading “It looks like a disposable film camera, acts like a disposable film camera, and feels like a disposable film camera.”

The real question is, once you are done editing and shared them initially, what do you honestly do with your photos?

There is no greater feeling than completing your image after editing (be it editing a raw file, or just cropping and straightening a jpeg). The first thing you do over the next few days is share your wonderful new images to your Facebook account, Instagram etc or your website for others to enjoy and forContinue reading “The real question is, once you are done editing and shared them initially, what do you honestly do with your photos?”

Our images don’t look like they used to… Our photos are lies – Part 2

Welcome to the second part of “Our images don’t look like they used to… Our photos are lies” (click the link if you missed it!). The first part had some great feedback, and ruffled the feathers of a few who simply didn’t understand that it was looking back at a time before technology, the internetContinue reading “Our images don’t look like they used to… Our photos are lies – Part 2”

Our images don’t look like they used to… Our photos are lies – Part 1

Have you noticed that when you look at images taken longer than a decade or so ago that they look very different from images we see now. I’m not talking about images you’ve taken for your job (if you were/are a photographer back then), I mean the everyday images that we take. The images thatContinue reading “Our images don’t look like they used to… Our photos are lies – Part 1”