The final post in the series... Compact mirror less cameras such as Micro 4/3 are slightly different from this. Most seem to be good performers from wide open, hit their best performance when stopped down by one stop and then gradually tail off as diffraction kicks in. The cameras do however have a huge advantage … Continue reading Select the Right Aperture – Part 3
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Select the Right Aperture – Part 2
Copyright: Robin Whalley, 2011Continued from previous blog...So, looking at the use of aperture to control depth of field is actually a very effective tool for doing this and depth of field is a key creative decision you need to make when capturing your images. Let’s say you want to create a portrait but the background … Continue reading Select the Right Aperture – Part 2
Select the Right Aperture – Part 1
Last Thursday night I was presenting at Bolton Camera Club. It was a good evening with lots of discussion, especially when I pulled out the sample prints I had taken. A lot of the members looking at the prints made from my LX5 compact Camera were surprised by the not only the quality and detail … Continue reading Select the Right Aperture – Part 1
You want to print it how big
I remember when I first purchased my Canon 5D MKII. One of the drivers behind this decision was to have a 21MPixel sensor. This was partly due to the main stock library I supplied only accepting 50Mb files and the pixel count on the 5D making this easy to achieve without interpolation. The other factor … Continue reading You want to print it how big
More Lightweight Noise Reduction
In a previous blog (Don’t Let Noise Kill Your Images) I wrote about the steps you could take to minimise noise in your images. It’s long been recognised that cameras with small sensors have higher levels of noise than they would if they had a larger sensor as a result of packing more pixels into less … Continue reading More Lightweight Noise Reduction
The Lightweight Portfolio Challenge
The Lightweight Portfolio Challenge New York, March 2011 Copyright: Robin Whalley 2011 Contact: robin@lenscraft.co.uk I was recently reading about Haiku which is a form of Japanese poetry. The objective is to describe an idea in just 17 syllables in three lines (there is a bit more to it but this is the key point for … Continue reading The Lightweight Portfolio Challenge
Creating a Lightweight Photoshop Workflow
Creating a Lightweight Photoshop Workflow Rough seas, Norway, March 2012 Copyright: Robin Whalley 2012 Contact: robin@lenscraft.co.uk Last night I was the guest speaker at a Camera Club; something that I like to do a number of times each year in order to share my knowledge, but also to pick up information from others. The event … Continue reading Creating a Lightweight Photoshop Workflow
Don’t Let Noise Kill Your Images
Don't Let Noise Kill Your Images Cornwall, October 2011 Copyright: Robin Whalley 2011 Contact: robin@lenscraft.co.uk One of the complaints that has dogged small and compact cameras in the past is that they are prone to noise and noise can kill images dead. Unfortunately, whilst advances have been made, these cameras by virtue of their smaller … Continue reading Don’t Let Noise Kill Your Images
Are Compact Cameras up to the Job
Are Compact Cameras up to the Job Wasdale Head, January 2011 Copyright: Robin Whalley 2011 Contact: robin@lenscraft.co.uk I was having a discussion with an acquaintance the other day who was arguing with me that Compact Cameras are just not up to the job of taking good quality images. His argument revolved around his own experience … Continue reading Are Compact Cameras up to the Job
New Lightweight Definition
New Lightweight Definition Lofoten Islands, Norway March 2012 Copyright: Robin Whalley 2012 - but feel free to repost and share Contact: robin@lenscraft.co.uk When I decided to start this blog it was my intention to discuss the creation of great photography of professional quality using lightweight equipment; that is smaller and lighter than the usual DSLR … Continue reading New Lightweight Definition
The Lightweight Photographer 