Photography and Photoshop

iPad Camera Connection Kit

  iPad Camera Connection Kit I’ve just received my iPad Camera Connection Kit through the post today.  This unassuming set of dongles attaches to the dock connector of the iPad and allows you to import photos and videos directly into the iPad’s Photo gallery app. The premise is simple – just plug either the USB [...]

Switching Nikon to Canon – A Photography Leap of Faith

I’ve recently taken a leap that surprised even me. For the last four years, since January 2006, I’ve been exclusively a Nikon man. My Nikon D50 has served me very well, with absolutely no issues whatsoever. It was my first ‘true’ digital SLR (well my first with interchangeable lenses anyway, I previously had an Olympus E10), and has been a fantastic piece of kit

Protected: Peel Your Own Spuds – Cardiff Millennium Centre

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Film for Lomography, and Cross-Processing – Things are getting strangely analogue around here…

Following on from the discovery in the previous post, I’ve decided to furnish my Lubitel 166B with some food.  Fujichrome Provia 400x slide film to be precise.  It’s been kind of weird shopping for film again for the first time in almost ten years – like I said – feels sort of liberating, and I’m not [...]

Lubitel 166B – Real Lomography Beckons

Following on from yesterday’s post – it’s been kind of interesting getting a feel for what all this Lomo stuff is about.  I don’t know what it is that draws me to the Lomography style exactly…  I think it must be the lack of any fixed rules, and the way it captures bits of life [...]

Lomographic Aspirations

Today, I had a happy accident.  Today, I accidentally (re)stumbled across the art of Lomography.  Today, I finally found a genuine use for my iPhone camera.  Today, I had a ‘Eureka’ moment. Let me explain… Photography is an art.  In the end, it’s all about the aesthetics.  Beautiful photos opportunities rear their heads in the [...]

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