by Martin Bailey | Oct 20, 2014 | Podcast, Travelogue, Workshops
This week we continue our travelogue of my recent Iceland Tour & Workshop with Tim Vollmer, and 14 amazing photographer participants as we traveled around this incredible country. We pick up the trail today on September 25, as we headed over to Geysir (right), to...
by Martin Bailey | Oct 16, 2014 | Announcement, Podcast, Promotion
I'm blown away by the global response to the Complete Photography Bundle II 5 Day Deal sale. So far, global sales (not mine, but all contributors) have resulted in $25,000+ being raised for charity in just 12 hours! If you haven't already picked up your copy, you can...
by Martin Bailey | Oct 16, 2014 | Announcement, Podcast, Promotion
We all want to become better photographers, right? There are lots of ways to study, and improve your craft, but the best education and tools can mount up to a significant amount of money. What if you could get over $2000 worth of world class education and tools, all...
by Martin Bailey | Oct 14, 2014 | Podcast, Travelogue, Workshops
This week, we start to retrace my steps from this year's Iceland Tour & Workshop, as I travelled that beautiful country for 12 days with an amazing group of photographers, and my partner for this tour, Tim Vollmer. This year's tour ran from Sept 22 to Oct 3, with...
by Martin Bailey | Oct 8, 2014 | Announcement, Art Talk, Promotion
The Craft & Vision Magazine PHOTOGRAPH No.9 has just been released! Elegant and simple. Black and white. Delineation of space and shape. Like the refined effortlessness of a great image, Issue 9 of PHOTOGRAPH magazine is newly redesigned! To be totally honest,...
by Martin Bailey | Oct 7, 2014 | Gear, Podcast, Review
Two days before I left for my 2014 Iceland Tour, I picked up my shiny new iPhone 6 Plus, and have used it for panos, video and photo sharing etc. over the last two weeks, so this week I share my thoughts on the iPhone 6 Plus from 2 weeks in Iceland. This year's...
by Martin Bailey | Sep 22, 2014 | Fundamentals, Musings, Podcast
We often here people throw around the words Chimping and Pixel Peeping with negative connotations, suggesting that doing either of these things makes you a lesser photographer. In a fun sense, I think it's fine, and can often just be camaraderie, but I cry fowl to the...
by Martin Bailey | Sep 15, 2014 | Podcast, Tutorial, Videos
This week I share a video tutorial showing how to shoot for and create a focus stacked image in Photoshop using a focusing rail. Focus stacking can be a lot of fun, and is often the only way to get everything in focus in macro photography due to the extremely shallow...
by Martin Bailey | Sep 9, 2014 | Art Talk, Musings, Podcast
Today I talk about a topic that was raised by Andy Bartlett, a member of my cohort on The Arcanum, regarding how we push through the mental barriers and doubt as we try to create beautiful photographs after making some earlier spectacular work. Although not all...
by Martin Bailey | Sep 1, 2014 | Fundamentals, Podcast, Tutorial
I was thinking about hyperfocal distance recently, and wondered how long ago it was that I did my original podcast on this subject. I checked this morning, it was almost eight years ago now, so I decided to cover this subject again today. Much of what I said back then...
by Martin Bailey | Aug 25, 2014 | Business, Podcast, Review
You can tell when the oppressive Tokyo summer heat sets in, because I reverse hibernate and stay in doors doing back office jobs like Web site maintenance and ordering business cards etc. and that's exactly what we're going to talk about today. I recently ordered my...
by Martin Bailey | Aug 18, 2014 | Podcast, Tutorial, Videos
In response to a couple of questions about an image I posted recently, today I'm going to walk you through how I created a totally black background in Silver Efex Pro 2, using a recent Lotus Flower photograph. Here is the video. Remember to go full screen so that you...
