Matt's Blog
2nd August 2010 - A Good View Spoiled
I haven’t yet got around to disposing of my late uncle’s outrageous “creative” filters that he left me as part of his camera gear (see HERE for a view of the filters) and as I had at least one tongue-in-cheek request to see what pictures looked like taken with them I though I would stick [...]
8th July 2010 - Digital Pinhole Photography
In these days of digital perfection there is a surprising amount if interest in imperfect imagery. Whether this be through traditional film based systems like the Holga or Lomo, or the more high-tech route of iPhone plus applications such as Hipstamatic. However, all if these systems require a significant outlay unless you already have the [...]
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 [...]
26th April 2010 - My Addiction to Social Networking
If someone told me a couple of years ago that I would be tweeting, blogging and updating my Facebook status via my phone I would at best have told them that it’s all a waste of time, but more likely said “What the *&%^ is a tweet?!”. Social networking sites have become a huge industry [...]
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 [...]