I recently gave the Delkin Express Card 34 Compact Flash Adapter a try for Outdoor Photo Gear, as a proud member of their Gear Advisory Board. Here are my findings. I chose to try this Compact Flash Adapter from Delkin because I like the idea of having a slimline...
Podcast 204 : Q&A #11 – Signing Images and Fine Art Prints
Last week I did my first Q&A podcast for a year, and actually had started out planning to answer questions from two listeners, but spent so much time answering the first question, I postponed today's answer by a week. It's great to get into these listener's...
Canon EF 50mm F1.2 L Lens’ Dynamic Back-Focus
On August 1st, I bought a Canon EF 50mm F1.2 L USM Lens. I'd been thinking of getting this lens for a long time, though had held off because I heard that it back focused when trying to focus on things close to the lens. For much of my current work though, if I'm...
Podcast 203 : Q&A #10 – Shooting with Grey Skies and Why Manual Mode?
Today, in the first Q&A episode for a year, I answer a question from a listener about shooting under a grey sky, and I also go into detail on why I use Manual Mode, especially in challenging exposure situations. The question that I’m going to answer today is from...
Podcast 202 : Lens Review – Lensbaby Composer
About six weeks ago I bought a Lensbaby Composer, and although I released an Initial Impressions review here on my blog straight away, having now had a chance to take it through its paces a little more, here's a more in-depth review of what I've found to be more than...
Being in the Zone
In Episode 131 of the Audio2u Shutter's Inc. Podcast, Richard Annable posed the questions "Why do you photograph things? Why are you a photographer?". Some of the group's answers were quite profound, and I do suggest that you put yourself through the ordeal of...
Podcast 201 : Towada Lake Images
While in Aomori photographing the beautiful Oirase Mountain Stream, I stayed in a hotel at the Towada Lake, which is about 10 to 15 minutes away from the road that runs along the mountain stream that we looked at last week. The Towada Lake is really beautiful when in...
Podcast 200 : Oirase Mountain Stream (200th Episode!!)
This is Episode 200!! Yeeeey, wooh! It’s been almost 4 years now since I started the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast and today marks the 200th episode. I almost can’t believe it. Bear with me as I revel in this for a few minutes, but I want to talk just a little...
Podcast 199 : June ’09 Assignment – Everything in Focus – Results
Just a quick post to accompany the 199th Podcast in which we take a look at the three images that received the most votes from their peers in the June 2009 photography assignment, on the theme of Everything in Focus. This was an interesting assignment again, following...
My New Post Sensor Cleaning Check-List
Last week I took two camera bodies to Canon's Service Center in Shinjuku, Tokyo, to have the sensors cleaned. Of all the times I've had the sensors cleaned by Canon, never once have they changed settings on the camera, so I don't pay much attention to checking that my...
Podcast 198 : More Things I’d Not Like to be Without
Way back in April 2007 I released Episode 84 of the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast, in which I spoke about 10 items that I would really not like to be without, in my photography. Just over two years have passed, and I have a few more things that I feel compelled to...
Podcast #197 : Ambient Light Product Shoot
Just under a year ago, in Episode 151 of this Podcast, we looked at my Speedlite studio lighting, and I gave some tips on how I handle that gear etc. Today we’re going to take a look at a simple way to light products to shoot only with ambient light. There’s nothing...