I’ve been away. Again. I know! Not only that but it was once of the warmest weeks we’ve ever had in March here in the UK. It was 23°C (that’s like 70-something in Fahrenheit). So glorious and pure chance! We…
Monthly Archives
March 2012
As you may already know, I’ve really enjoyed experimenting with cross-processing film in the past – I love how the colours shift in such surprising ways and that the slightest difference in film can give you completely different results –…
The good thing about this time of year (that would be Spring! Yay, get in!) is that if you’re stuck for words there are plenty of colourful and/or blossomy photos to fill in any gaps. It’s not so much that…
Some news on my ‘big plan‘ – I now have an official notebook which I carry everywhere with me! I know, I know I have lots of notebooks already (you sound just like my husband) but a girl needs a new…
In my day job I am lucky enough to work with people from all over the world. The ones that are new to these shores all seem to want to visit the same particular place – the white cliffs…
The next best thing to being given a camera for free is finding one at a bargain price in a second-hand store – like this little Konica C35 EF-P for the same price as a cappuccino! It seems to…
It’s always reassuring after a dark and gloomy winter to see those little signs of life – buds and shoots and catkins – you know things are going to change, and soon. Then you turn a corner and see…
I Capture the Castle – not only a pithy blog title for a post which includes a Polaroid photo of a castle I captured, but also a marvellous book which I’d forgotten all about (and MUST read again asap)…
When people say to me they are thinking about trying film photography and aren’t sure about what camera to get or where to buy one I tell them this; Mention to everyone you know that you wish you had…
Digital Photography Tutorials
Vintage photo effects using ‘Selective Color’ adjustments in Photoshop
If you look at old family snapshots from the 60s/70s/80s you’ll notice how colours have shifted and faded. Blacks are rarely jet-black and whites are almost yellow – some have a colour-cast across the whole image, others have one…