Welcome to Episode 20, which is the first part of two episode on colour management. In this episode, part one, I’m going to discuss how I calibrate my monitor to ensure that what I am seeing is the same as anyone else that also have a correctly calibrated monitor, and...
Welcome to episode 19. Today I’m going to talk about sunsets. Well, not just sunsets, but dramatic sunsets. When the sky starts to turn orange then red as the sun goes down, it can make an amazing spectacle, and your emotions will run riot and you might not think much...
Welcome to episode 18. In Episode 17 I spoke about Winter Photography, giving some tips for shooting in sub-zero conditions. After the episode was released a number of members on my Web site kindly raised a few other tips that I really should have included, so I am...
Welcome to episode 17, which is going to be a bit of a Christmas special. Last week I visited Shirakawagou, in the Gifu Prefecture, here in Japan. Shirakawagou is actually the old name for the Shirakawa village that is now part of a town called Ogi Town, and contains...
Welcome to episode 16 of the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast. This week, I’m going to talk about including an accent or a little something extra in your shots. Before we start though, I want to thank all of those that got involved in the discussion on the forum...
Welcome to episode 15 of the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast. This week, in addition to talking about a simple technique, which is using a polarizer to reduce reflection in water, I’m going to touch on the somewhat controversial topic of whether or not a nature...
Last week I took a holiday and hired a car, and have been off to the Touhoku district, which is the north-eastern area of Japan. This year the beautifully coloured Autumn leaves are about two weeks late, and are currently moving slowly south across Japan, and so many...
Hello and welcome to episode ten. First, I want to announce the winner of October’s prize for members active in the forum. Congratulations to Marisa Firpi. An original print of the photograph you chose, which was “Distant Tokachi Mountain”, is in the post on its way...
Up to now I’ve spoken in this Podcast only about photographic techniques and theories that I am totally confident in. This week, having just gotten back from five days in India I have decided to talk about a subject I am not so confident with, which is portraiture....
Hello and welcome back! This is episode 2 of the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast! Thanks so much to everyone that contacted me via the contact form or forum on my website. Your kind comments are a great encouragement and very much appreciated. Looking at the...
From the Archives... I'm going to gradually import the old Podcast archives to the blog, as I think this is a better format than the current Podcasts page. I can publish the original manuscript when available, and this gives me the freedom to delete the old images...