Matt's Blog
30th November 2009 - Winter Has Arrived
I finally dragged myself away from the computer today for a hike up Pen y Fan (the highest mountain in the Brecon Beacons for those who don’t know). The forecast was excellent and at last winter has arrived!
It was bitterly cold and extremely windy on the summit but well worth the view, not to [...]
27th November 2009 - Photography or Computing?
I call myself a photographer so exactly how much photography do you think I’ve done over the last week? Sadly not enough. Apart from a brief trip out to Swansea Bay last Monday and providing some images for a local estate agent’s web page I’ve spent the week sitting in front of the computer evaluating [...]
18th November 2009 - School Photos
Everyone must remember at least one of their own school photos and is probably haunted by them whenever they visit elderly relatives. Artistically they were never really up to much – but then what do you expect when you have a production line of children forced to sit in front of an unforgiving mottled blue [...]
14th November 2009 - Setting Yourself a Project
Photographers are always being told to set themselves a project to help progress their photography. It’s something that I find very useful to get me away from my “bread and butter” landscape and family portrait images and allows me to concentrate on a topic without thinking of the saleability of an image.
The problem I find [...]
2nd November 2009 - Bird Photography Revisited
I’ve previously talked about the frustrations of bird photography even with decent equipment, so I was surprised to capture this image of a Robin last week using just my Canon G10 compact camera.
Now admittedly this bird was very tame – as the camera was about 6 inches from its face. The only real problem with [...]