Evejam Photography

An inspiring photo from the Guardian eye witness app. The photo is in the hills of Snowdon North Wales. Click on the link for more information. http://gu.com/p/37kya I love how the photographer used a slow shutter speed to make the lakes icy smooth, like glass. Trying to work out what the settings were. The aperture [...]

For a long time now I have struggled to understand what photographers are on about when they talk about increasing or decreasing the number of stops. The Steve Sint book finally explains it in a way that I sort of understand. So this post is for the following reasons 1. To check if I can [...]

At the moment I am reading digital portrait photography by Steve Sint, and wow what a book. I am only about 70 pages in and already this book is a cut above the rest. As you read the book you can really see that the author knows his stuff. I find photographers usually fall into [...]

I went to St Fagans with the family, decided against bringing my DSLR as I wanted to just scout the location, and used my mobile for remembering locations, and more importantly spend quality time with my family. It was interesting to study how the lights reacts in different locations, made me think of how I [...]

I was chatting to a friend about the differences between the full size sensor and the half-size sensor which are found in various digital SLR’s. Trying to explain the difference between the two and how it affects the process of taking photographs, is a very difficult topic to explain so I searched or googled the internet and [...]

I really enjoyed using my new lens for this photoshoot, it is fairly weighty and felt out of balance when used on my Nikon D40, which is a small SLR and quite light. After a while you will feel the lens pulling down, not major issue but it is noticeable. However it is still a worthwhile [...]