Taipei Sky – Colour or B/W?
So we had the torrential rain again. If you look at the satellite picture, Taiwan is surrounded by cloudless ocean and there’s a blob of cloud parked over the island. Ho hum. Still, it just cleared and we got a lovely bit of golden hour sun. I dashed up on the the roof and shot [...]
The big blue room
It put in an appearance today. Which was nice, so rather than being 35C and disgustingly humid, it was 39C, breezy and relatively dry. The cloud came over and denied us a proper sunset. Good excuse to bring out the 12-24mm lens though Related Posts:Taipei Sky – Colour or B/W?Stunning golden waterfall, JinguashiCanon S90 Taipei [...]
Dave’s links of the week, 28 June 2010
And this is what’s been happening in Dave world over the last week and a bit. On my Facebook photography group: Taking macro shots with your phone camera. Not convinced about this. If you try it, let us know! Some incredible oil-spill based photos from Jane Fulton Alt. Go. Now. How to get photographic inspiration [...]
B/W prints – the reveal
A couple of days ago I took some photos of Taipei I’d taken, rendered to Tri-X 400 pushed 2 stops with Alienskin then asked for opinion. Those opinions were pretty evenly spread. With help, I chose 7 to be printed. The prints were on “Kodak Digital Royal” paper, for what that’s worth. Here are the [...]
Experiments in Alienskin
For a while now, I’ve been interested in the cognitive effects of “film effects” on a digital image. Many times I’ve taken a colour image that ticks all the boxes in terms of composition, exposure and so on and had little or no reaction. Once converted to black and white, suddenly, the response is much [...]
Annie Leibovitz shoots Keith Richards
I have a love-hate relationship with Annie Leibovitz. The book of her early music work “American Music” where she tours the states getting available light portraits of the stars of the day is inspiring. Her early staged shots such as the one of John and Yoko hours before he was shot is a classic. Her [...]
Mahoosive list of photography blog sites
OK, here’s a big unstructured list of photography blogs sites culled from around the interwebs. I reckon I have around 20 of them in my RSS feeds and I have a cunning and dangerous plan to do something with this list. Watch this space. They should probably be categorised too. In the mean time, your [...]
Web sites for photographers
As a geek first and photographer second, I often get asked “what should I use for my site?” The answer is, as always: “it depends”. Sorry. No quick fix. Cut to the chase: what it depends on is your buget and your “marketing mix”. In this blog I’m going to focus on two kinds of [...]
Daily Dave zombie Jesus edition: semen, pie, drugs, cancer
I trust you’re all having a nice Easter weekend. Here’s your daily dose of stuff: Most important of all, the recent discovery that pi = pie! An XKCD for the folks in LA who just got hit by a quake. You should have seen the tweets before it hit you! Weird Al very kindly gives [...]
Canon Powershot S90 – first impressions
Anyone who knows me, know that I pretend to be a Nikon bigot: “Nikon make microscopes and Canon make photocopiers”. It’s a bit of a front, since I started on Canon. So, since coming to Taipei, I’ve been itching to have a camera to hand to capture the day to day, and indeed night by [...]
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