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Picking an SLR camera

Back in April, I did a Top 15 entry-level camera round-up, and it’s one of those posts where the comments stayed relatively calm, but I got tonnes of e-mail afterwards, with suggestions, comments etc. I was surprised at the level of passion people had about that one single article, but it got me thinking: I [...]

Review: Understanding Shutter Speed

“Photography has to be enjoyed by looking at pictures”, my arts teacher used to say, back when I still listened to teachers. I agree with the man, but I’m also a geek, and I love understanding things. I’m the kind of guy who enjoys knowing why the engine makes more noise and the car goes [...]

Geekery

Hey guys, Sorry about more of the geekery, but basically, I’ve spent the past 48 hours trying to make Photocritic better. Part of that was getting shy of my (ludicrously expensive) colo-server, and getting myself on a virtual server instead. One of the geeks I work with (thanks Stuart!) pointed me at SliceHost, and I’m an [...]

iPhone for photographers

Those of you who know me know that I’m never more than a metre away from my iPhone - it has its flaws (as I’ve written about on my personal home page before), but nonetheless, it’s a class piece of kit - and the iPhone 3G is going to make it better still - [...]

Quick update

Lack of updates Sorry about the lack of updates recently, I’ve been mad busy with my day-job recently (excitingly, we just launched our version of BBC’s iPlayer, known as Demand Five, yesterday), and I’ve got an exciting extension to Photocritic which is coming up soon, so I’ve mostly been doing behind-the-scenes work. Want to contribute an [...]

8 steps to sharper photos

So you’ve finally graduated from taking photos with a compact, and have your grubby little paws on a fantastic digital single-lens reflex. All good and well, but why don’t your pictures come out as fantastic as some of the ones you see on Flickr? Surely, they’re using the same camera as you - where are [...]

Stabilising a cheap tripod

Tripods are cheap as chips nowadays, but the cheaper ones have a few flaws. Most importantly, they are too light, and too unstable. So what do you do when you are working on macro stuff, and your tripod won’t stop vibrating, or the high winds are trying to disturb your photographic peace? Quite simply, most [...]

Canvas printing

There’s web galleries, there’s your mum’s photo printer, and then there is this… One of the most beautiful ways of presenting photographs has to be getting your photos transferred onto canvas. The cool thing is that you can get quite creative what you do on a canvas - just ask Rembrandt & co! There are a [...]

Photographic treasure-hunt: Shoot Experience!

Combine a good old-fashioned team-based treasure hunt with a photography competition, and you’ve got a recipe for success, right? Well, that’s what I thought too, when I signed up to attend Shoot London, an event based out of the Tate gallery, organised by Shoot Experience, a company who organises these kind of events for public [...]

From microstocks to megabucks

Or: The economics behind Microstock. I make little secret of my dislike for microstock, as re-iterated in my ‘The Problem with Microstock‘ article a few weeks back. The curse of having a relatively high-profile blog, however, is that people tend to disagree with you. Well, that’s not really the curse, that’s a fact of life. [...]

Canon compact camera cracking

Okay, so technically it’s ‘hacking’ rather than cracking, but that’d ruin my beautifully alliterative subject line. Anyway… If you’re using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera, you’ve got hardware in hand that can support advanced features way beyond what shipped in the box. With the help of a free, open source project called CHDK, [...]

WINNERS: one of 5 copies of my book!

Right, the winners for the competition have been picked! By deadline, there were 151 competition entries, and I used Random.org to pick the winners. The winners are: #2 - ryan97ou #88 - Luís Brás #120 - John Jimenez #116 - Tim Norris #98 - Aaron Snowden I’ll e-mail you all as soon as to get your addresses so I can [...]

5 ways to deal with negative photo-critiques

It is relatively self-explanatory that doing a photo critique is quite difficult. What few people stop to think about, however, is that receiving a photo critique can be as difficult - if not more difficult: When you move beyond mere snapshots and start putting more of yourself into your photographs, you are a lot more [...]

How exposure works

To understand exposure in photographical terms, EV is probably the single most important number you will have to understand, to understand the theory behind the art of photography. This goes from your tiniest, least significant compact camera, to your cock-on-the-table style medium format camera with a digital back. Non-technical Let us imagine a value called TCE. This [...]

10 ways to make Google love your photography site

You’re working as a photographer, you take fantastic photos, and you’ve even got a pretty sweet website to show off your work… So why is your web server just sitting around in the corner, smoking a fag and nipping at a cup of coffee? Why aren’t the buyers running the door off its hinges, and, [...]

Sharpening photos in the darkroom

In the past, we’ve covered why it is important to sharpen your photos, and how you can use the Unsharp Mask tool in Photoshop to make sure your photos look their best. I am a firm believer of understanding how things are done manually, however. If you are to take shortcuts, you have to know [...]

Teaching yourself photography

Imagine, for a second, that you are a young person with a camera. There are other cameras in the world around you, and there are people who use those cameras, too, but nobody really knows what they are doing, nobody can teach you anything you don’t already know, and the only tool you have in [...]

Why sharpen your images?

This week, I received a rather good question from one of my old friends, Cindy. She was wondering “how come that whenever I’m taking digital images, I have to sharpen them afterwards?” Good question, and of course, it’s already one step ahead of the curve, in that the question presupposes that yes, you DO have [...]

Wired photography contests

Recently, Wired.com has started doing a series of very cool photography contests, and I’ve been meaning to recommend them to people for a while. Participating in photography contests is generally a good idea, actually: It keeps you on your toes, and it very much helps to keep thinking about what you are doing with your [...]

The top 15 entry-level digital SLR cameras

If you’re reading Photocritic regularly, you could be forgiven for thinking there’s nothing in the world of D-SLR cameras beyond Canon and Nikon. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth: Competition is stronger than ever, and there’s a lot of other manufacturers bidding for your entry-level-cash… So we’ve had a look at the [...]

Which camera is this?

Update: This was an April’s fools’ joke in collaboration with DPReview. Sorry, guys ;) Just a quick one - I had a day off before starting my new job, so I was out go-karting with my dad yesterday (I won, hah), and we went for a bit of a touristic travel around London afterwards. Near [...]

The man behind the blog.

The other day, I received an e-mail Stephan D, one of my readers, with a load of questions about me and my photography career. I occasionally get questions about who I am and why I run Photocritic, so I figured that I might just do a post about the man behind the blog, as it [...]

The problem with microstock

We do an experiment with microstock, and discover that while I sold three times more photos, I earned 40 times less money from the micro stock sales than from a full-on agency - with the exact same photos on sale… The lesson? If you’re a decent photographer, stay the hell away from micro-stock: The bigger agencies [...]

Never miss an issue of Photocritic!

You’ve probably heard of RSS - also known as Really Simple Syndication. You haven’t? Oh my golly, you really should! RSS allows you to keep track of your favourite websites, when it suits YOU. You don’t spend hours and hours checking your bookmarks and seeing if they have updated their site recently, just subscribe to [...]

Nude photography 101: Photographing your girlfriend

Portraiture is one of the most exhilarating forms of photography. It’s rewarding, exciting, challenging, and a lot of fun. But people have a way of hiding from the camera: Clothes. Nude photography is essentially portraiture sans clothing, which is what makes it such a fun topic to explore and develop as a photographer. Personally, I’m [...]

Models: Preparing for a photo shoot

The modeling industry is very competitive. Every photo-shoot is a chance for a model to show herself at her best, and any model is only as good as their last shoot - so there’s a strong incentive to make each photo-shoot count towards This article highlights some recommendations that a model may want to [...]

Getting those portraits right, once and for all

Most of us have been unpleasantly surprised (OK, startled) when we’ve looked at photos of ourselves. Everyone says the camera doesn’t lie, but where did that extra chin come from? Why do my arms look so fat? Is my nose really that long? And when did my knees become so… substantial? It’s enough to make [...]

The dirty tricks of food photographers

We’ve all seen the seductive photos of vividly colorful fresh vegetables, sumptuous cherry pies, and golden-brown roasted turkeys. These pictures, often found in glossy cookbooks and magazines, make us believe that if we follow the recipe we, too, can create such delectable dishes. And many of us can. Well, almost. A peek behind the kitchen door [...]

Distance-learning photography course

Good day, my lovely readers! Just a short post today (but don’t worry, I’ve got a phenomenal post lined up for tomorrow - just you wait)… I was just thinking… I haven’t got any formal photography qualifications, and it would be rather awesome to have one, but I’ve also got a busy day-job, so I haven’t got [...]

The death of photo journalism

“From this day, the painting is dead”, Paul Delaroche exclaimed when he saw the first Daguerreotype in 1839. He turned out to be wrong about the bit about the art of painting being dead, but photography certainly had a profound impact on our way of life. As a matter of fact, as early as in 1900, [...]