All you need to understand Depth of Field, Hyperfocal Distance and Infinity in Photography, with some practical examples of my why this is important.
Depth of Field, Hyperfocal Distance, Infinity, and Beyond! (Podcast 732)
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Photographer’s Friend Depth of Field Calculator Tutorial (Podcast 634)
For this week’s post, I’ve released a new tutorial for our Photographer’s Friend Depth of Field calculator, and I’ve included some practical examples from the field so this may be useful as a general tutorial as well.
Photographer’s Friend 3 for iOS Now Available! (Podcast 632)
In this post, I announce the availability of Photographer’s Friend 3 for iOS and explain the Upgrade Bundle for previous version owners to get a discount and share a video all about the new Exposure Shift Calculator.
Circle of Confusion, the Airy Disk and Diffraction (Podcast 594)
Today I'm going to explain what causes diffraction as we stop down the aperture in our lenses past a certain point, and how this may affect our photographs. I've been working on an update to our iOS app Photographer's Friend so that you'll be able to do two new...
Introducing Photographer’s Friend for iPhone and iPad (Podcast 592)
It gives me great pleasure to tell you that I have now released the update to our iPhone app, Photographer's Friend. We now support iPad in addition to iPhone and iPod touch, as well as landscape and portrait orientations. As I mentioned in an update a few weeks ago,...
Understanding Hyperfocal Distance (Podcast 437)
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...
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...
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...
Using Telephoto Lenses Successfully (Podcast 23)
Welcome to Episode 23 of the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast. Today I’m going to talk about what actually constitutes a telephoto lens, briefly touch on some general applications, and the difficulties we face when using medium to super-telephoto lenses. I’ll also...
The Pink Flamingo’s Stare (Podcast 1)
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...