Recent content by Fogey1

It's my experience, that unless you have a tilt and shift wide angle lens, dealing witih the converging uprights is a real pain; unless, of course I'm missing something. I normally set my 18-300 mm lens to 70 mm and take a series of overlapping shots, both vertically and horizontally, if...

There is a site called 'A Year With My Camera', that will take you, week by week, through all the intracacies on the camera, understanding the exposure triangle, photographic composition, until you become an extremely competent photographer. Based on learning by email, you learn at your own...

Taken in Aberfoyle, Scotland.

Pussy Willow.

Another montage using Nikon. It's not so much the equipment but the photographer.

This is my very first stacked macro. I used my basic Nikon D300 camera and kit lens with some extension tubes. I recycled a dead bee I found in the Annexe and, after blowing off the dust, practiced my photographic skills with focus stacking. I used CombineZP for the software and this is a...

No. It just means that nothing on the lens is automatic. Focus stacking, simply put, is a series of shots, focusing at different points along the length of the subject. When the source images are stacked, the subject will be in focus along its entire length. A lot of people use a focusing...

Don't forget the Laowa is a totally manual lens.

Regarding sharpness. Do not have image stabiliation on when using a tripod. Two screen dumps attached showing the metering and focussing modes. I would go for centre weighted metering and either of the first two focussing modes. As you are shooting raw images be prepared to adjust and...

I wouldn't cross the road to photograph that trollop.

Stunning capture.

Being besotted would be closer to the mark.

Ok. I'll try. We know the histogram is a graphical representation of the tonal distribution in an image - all well and good to see what you have taken. But lets look at the histogram before you take the shot. Left of the histogram are two shades of grey, representing black. Move to the...

Look up the relatioship between ISO and the histogram, especially the banding that occurs in the sky.