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...
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...
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...
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...
After many years of editing HTML and PHP directly to create just about everything on my site, I figured it is time to make things a little easier on myself, and create a blog!
Following on from Episode 201 of the Martin Bailey Photography Podcast, I thought I'd post the transcript for Episode 190, in which I gave you ten steps to great long exposure images. So here goes... Long Exposures can push a photographer and our gear a little out of...
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...