I hate having my photo taken!! Or do I? This Sunday I had to set up a black screen to do a quick video for someone, and decided that it was time to update my self portrait photograph. I know it's a very newbie thing to include your camera, but having seen Michael...
There’s no doubt, that patience is a virtue. I can be very impatient with things that I can control. But, once I decide that I “need” a piece of gear for example, as long as I can budget for it, there’s little that can stop me from buying it. I’ve been burned with...
When I go out shooting, I usually put my memory card into my Lexar FireWire 800 card reader as soon as I walk in the door, and start my download. If I'm coming home from an extended trip, the images will be on hard drives etc. but still, the first thing I do before I...
Things are getting so easy! This is a good thing of course, most of the time... When I first bought my Canon Pixus Pro 9500 printer, the first time I had to change an ink cartridge I was lost. I'd been used to having to press buttons for a number of seconds etc. to...
I'm tired of hearing people mispronounce the Japanese word Bokeh, meaning the out of focus part of a photograph. As the master of bokeh in my photography, and having lived in Japan and speaking the language for the last 18 years, I thought I'd put the record straight...
Last week we started a two part series in which we are looking at some images that I made on a trip over at the Inawashiro Lake on the last day of 2008, hoping to capture one or two more good images before I said goodbye to the year. I believe I did that, as we saw...
So, as you just heard, I was over at the Inawashiro Lake on the last day of 2008, hoping to capture one or two more good images before I said goodbye to the year. I believe I did that, as we saw two of the shots for this day in my best 10 shots of 2008, in episode...
Happy New Year everyone, and welcome to the first episode of the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast for 2009. Today we’re going to look back at my personally selected top ten images of 2008. I’ll talk a little about why I like each of them as well, so let’s jump right...
Here we are at the end of 2008, and I thought once again, it would be a good time to look back at the year, and see what went well, and what I didn’t get to. Having been a pretty tough year in many respects, it’s definitely not all good, but let’s look at my 2008...
Last week, on November the 20th, I went to Beijing, China, for a very short business trip with my day job. I had planned to be there for an extra day though on Saturday, and people that I was visiting had kindly agreed to take me and my boss site seeing. We were...
In this episode we look at some images from another recent client shoot, where I photographed a Maki-e artist at work. This episode was originally recorded ad-lib, so there is no manuscript I'm afraid. Show Notes The music in this episode is from...
In the first week in August 2008 I went to a small rural town in the Iwate Prefecture called Joboji, on an assignment for a client. The assignment was to take photos for a limited edition book that my client is creating for their client and today I’m going to share...