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
Travelling Even Lighter
Travelling Even Lighter Manchester, May 2012 Copyright: Robin Whalley 2012 Contact: robin@lenscraft.co.uk Today was a great day for photography. I met up with a friend in Manchester where we spent the entire day shooting urban scenes. The weather played ball for once and the light was simply stunning. It was the sort of crisp clean … Continue reading Travelling Even Lighter
Compact Assumption
Over the course of a year I am asked to give quite a few presentations to camera clubs here in the UK. These presentations cover a variety of topics rather than just being about Lightweight Photography, but I do often make reference to my use of compact cameras. I also like to take along A3 … Continue reading Compact Assumption
The Small Sensor Advantage
, The other night I received a number of emails that reminded me how people involved in Landscape Photographers are failing to move with the times. It used to be that you would start photography using a 35mm film camera and in time, if you were interested in Landscape Photography you might move up to … Continue reading The Small Sensor Advantage
The Essential Filter
If there is a single accessory I see as essential (not just useful) it’s the ND Grad (Neutral Density Graduated) filter. This is the filter that is clear at the bottom but a dark grey colour at the top. There is a graduated area to gradually transition from one to the other. It’s call Neutral … Continue reading The Essential Filter
LX5 Compact Camera Outperforms 5D Mk II SLR
It sounds absurd doesn’t it that a little pocket camera costing a few hundred pound could outperform a DSLR costing almost 10 times as much? But that’s exactly what happened to me recently. I happened to be driving through Somerset with the best part of the day free so I decided to take a detour … Continue reading LX5 Compact Camera Outperforms 5D Mk II SLR
The Lightweight Photographer 