Matt's Blog
29th June 2010 - Photography vs Art
Where does photography stop and art begin? Now I’m not being faecetious here – I know that a lot of photography IS art – what I’m asking is when an image ceases to be a photograph because it has been manipulated too much. The distinction used to be clear because manipulation of an image was [...]
23rd March 2010 - The iPhone as a Camera
I’ve had an iPhone for a couple of months now and being a photographer I have of course been playing with the camera features – so is the iPhone a serious tool for photography? After all one has already been used by press journalist David Guttenfelder to document a story in Afganistan.
Well first lets look [...]
8th March 2010 - HDR: The Photographer’s Secret
How many times have you looked at a landscape photograph and thought “that looks almost unreal” Or “how come my photographs never look like that?” Well the chances are that the images you are looking at have been created using a technique called High Dynamic Range (HDR).
A quick flick through last years successful entries in [...]
8th January 2010 - Perfect Skin?
Back in the good old days of photography you had to have a very good make-up artist to ensure perfect skin in photo shoots (or a very good model to start with). Then came digital and with a bit of work from a Photoshop expert most of the blemishes could be removed from a model’s [...]
8th December 2009 - Family Portraits – Easy?
Digital photography has lots of advantages, but to the professional photographer it also has a distinct disadvantage in that everyone with a digital camera now thinks they can do the same job just as easily themselves or that your work involves no real effort after pressing the shutter.
Take family portraits for instance. I’m sure that [...]