Monthly archive May, 2009

Red kites in flight, Photographer’s delight

Red Kite Powys

Nikon D700, 70-200 VR with 1.7 Teleconverter at 320mm, 1000th @ f/5.6, ISO 320

This Bank Holiday weekend I spent some time with fellow photographer Andrew Keen in Powys, Wales. We…

Wide angles and classic cars

morgans

Nikon D700, 17-35mm AF-S at 17mm, 1/400th at f/8

Local hotel and restaurant Sway Manor hosted an event for the local Morgan sports car owners club last weekend. One of…

Fotomoto – Sell your photos online with two lines of code

Techcrunch featured a report on a new startup yesterday which aims to let photographers sell images from their site without sending visitors off to a third party store. Currently in closed beta for US customers only,

The filter holder to polarise opinions

ckxp164knk1Cokin has launched a specialist X-Pro filter holder for the Nikon 14-24mm wide angle lens. The 14-24 has a bulbous front element with no filter thread so the holder attaches to the lens hood itself.…

Essential Nikon DSLR settings

I list Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski’s blogs as essential reading – both are great photographers and experts on Adobe software. Recently they’ve started a weekly show for…