Now that everyone has a smartphone in their pocket, be it berry, i, or droid, everyone also has the ability to knock out quick, half decent photos. Now, I’m all for more people taking good photos and personally I love photo feed apps like Instagram, tumblr and pheed, however…. What […]
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A have recently been lucky enough to have been the best man at the wedding of my good friend Graham. It was a fantastic day followed by a somewhat drunken evening followed by a somewhat painful morning…. The day after the wedding we did manage to get ourselves out of […]
Just a quick one, autumn is here and it’s pouring down with rain of course! Time to chill out and enjoy the fact that my garden in getting a good watering. 😉
I went to take some photos of my brother in law doing one of his ‘Five Great British Swims’ in the Royal Victoria docks in London. When we arrived we were surprised to find the train station not filled with swimmers as expected, but instead filled with Mario, Luigi, Harry […]
Many years ago I lived for a short while in an amazing apartment in Barcelona. In the middle of town, myself and my friend Dario. We had no plans really. He wanted to get a job, I wanted to learn Spanish and basically not be in England for a while. […]
Here it is, the totally revamped thedailycapture.com website! It’s been a long time coming and although I’m sad to see the old site go, I think it had to – so now to the future! The old site ran a very customised version of pixelpost, which is now pretty much […]
More fun with strobes! I finally got round to getting a second umbrella ordered, so now have the ability to shoot with two umbrellas using the speedlights. This is fine, except only one of these flashes (The SB-700) has manual controls – and I really don’t see the point in […]
So, I am learning. Taking pictures when I can using this basic knowledge and making mistakes constantly, just to prove how little I know. Down this route, however, lies some amazing photographs and indeed photographs with value, real cash value. I can see how people get the bug for playing […]
One thing that often concerns those who dabble with digital photography is how to deal with the files we shoot. Taking pictures is one skill, managing the resulting ”digital negatives” through to a final finished shot is another entirely. In this blog I will deal solely with the latter. More […]
I am in no way a professional photographer, I have never been paid for photos and wouldn’t generally ask. When one of my friends asked me to take pics of him and his fiance for their wedding invite card I jumped at the chance, just cause I knew it was […]
