Articles

Fun with fisheyes

Article

17/01 2011

I have had a couple of fisheye lenses in my long career with SLR's and have always considered them a lot of fun.

Shallow DOF and good brightness - and a great price

Nikon 35mm f/1.8

Article

16/01 2011

This lens is a no-brainer for any Nikon owner! It might not be the best lens Nikon ever made, but the quality to price ratio is unsurpassed.

Minolta MD 24mm f/2.8

Article

11/01 2011

A real eyeopener (litterally) and the start of my still ongoing wideangle craze

Sigma 20mm f/1.8

Article

09/01 2011

I've always liked two things in my lenses: wide angle and brightness. Combine the two and you have a winner!

My Sigma 10-20 - the hood has since been lost to the ocean

Sigma 10-20mm

Article

28/10 2010

My acquisition of a Sigma 10-20mm wideangle zoom many years ago was the beginning of a beautiful friendship, to quote Bogart in Casablanca. It is just my kind of lens.

Simple setups

Article

18/10 2010

I often use some very simple ”studio” setups to shoot small items in my office or my living room, even my bedroom. There's no reason to make things too complicated.

Flash modifiers: filters or gels

Article

04/10 2010

This is probably the most often used flash modifier apart from the diffuser--if not, perhaps it ought to be.

Flash modifiers: snoots and grids

Article

30/09 2010

A snoot is a tube in front of your flash, which keeps its beam of light tight and concentrated, while a grid has lots of smaller, parallel tubes that do essentially the same thing.

Flash modifiers: diffusers

Article

28/09 2010

This article is about different small flash diffusers, definitely the most common light modifiers.

Flash modifiers: intro

Article

28/09 2010

This is the first of a series of articles on flash modifiers – thingamajigs that can make your flash photography more interesting and give you more control over the light.

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