Following on from last week, today we continue to trace my steps from a recent trip to the Yachiho Highlands as I share some of the images I brought back with me, intermingling tips on decisions I made while photographing the area. As I mentioned last week, some of...
Yachiho Highlands – Part #1 (Podcast 141)
As I mentioned last week, with the pressures of living in Tokyo and the need to breathe some fresh air got a hold of me and my other half, we took off to the Yachiho Highlands from May 31 for a few days. Today we start to share some of the images I brought back with...
Assignment #15 – Irony (Podcast 140)
This week we are going to hear who won the Abstract Assignment, and we set the stage for the next Assignment. Before we go on, I would like to thank all of those who entered images to the Assignment this time. It is always great to see the images that you post, but...
Focussing (on Poppies!?) (Podcast 139)
As you just heard, about a month ago, I went to the Showa Memorial Park here in Tokyo to shoot the poppies there. I was going to do just a normal showcase type Podcast on the day, but having thought about it, a lot of what I would have spoken about was related to how...
Cropping #2 – Aspect Ratios and Ethics (Podcast 138)
Last week we looked at how cropping is often used for artistic reasons, sometimes to overcome technical issues in capture or to bypass restrictions of your gear. Today I’ll go into more details on cropping for printing to a certain paper size, and automating the...
Cropping #1 – Artistic Reasons and Tools (Podcast 137)
Cropping is used for artistic reasons, to overcome technical issues in capture or restrictions of your gear, or not done at all, for ethical reasons. Today and in the next episode we’re going to take a little time to look at each of these areas, starting this week...
Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Podcast 136)
After a visit to Kyoto which we talked about last week, the six of us, family and friends, went on to Hiroshima, and visited the Itsukushima Shrine and the Peace Memorial Park. The Park is situated under the hypocenter of the atomic bomb blast, and houses numerous...
Kyoto – March 2008 (Podcast 135)
During a family visit in March 2008, we did a bit of travelling, visiting Kyoto and Hiroshima. Today we're going to look at a number of images I shot during the few days in Kyoto. I’m sure most of you have experienced trying to photograph while out with friends, so...
India Apr 2008 – Madivala Market Part#2 (Podcast 134)
In the last episode, we started to look at some photos that I shot during another brief visit to the Madivala market in Bangalore, India last week, which for the sake of those listening to the archives in months or years to come was April, 2008. I’d also visited in...
India Apr 2008 – Madivala Market Part#1 (Podcast 133)
Last week I was in India for a brief business trip with my day job, and had a wonderful experience in the market that I’d visited in September of 2007, when I shot some great portrait shots that I shared with you in Episodes 105 and 106. This is the first of a two...
Depth-of-Field Explained (Podcast 132)
I’ve rarely seen an easy to understand explanation of how the aperture and distance to the subject affect the depth-of-field in our images. When I started to think about how I would explain this, I started to understand why, because it wasn’t easy to do this in a...
Observations from PIE 2008 (Podcast 131)
Although my family were due to arrive the following day, on the morning of March the 20th, which was a holiday here in Japan, and I had the choice of completing the Podcast I had half prepared, or going to the Photo Imaging Expo 2008 at the Tokyo Big Sight, and then...