Long Road Photography

Christmas Card Competition

Take an image suitable the 2011 Long Road Christmas Card and win a prize worth £10!!!!!

The image needs to be related to Christmas – holly, snow, ice, robin, decorations ……. AND link to Long Road.

Place you entries on the C15 Memory Stick in the “Christmas Card Image” folder.

Make sure your entry has your name on it.

Closing date: End of Term

Prize-winner to be announced in the New Year.

For tips on taking images in snow - view this recent blog post.

Nikon D60 for sale

Kit includes:
D60 Body
AF-S DX VR 18-200mm lens
All with original boxes and instructions.

Offers around £600
If you are interested, please see Andrea who can put you in touch with the seller.

Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 14

Aperture Values

It's snowing ........

If you want to go and take images of the snow here are a few tips to get you started.

• Make sure your batteries are FULLY charged - the cold will deplete them much much faster.

• Consider taking a poly bag with you - you may wish to crouch down low and won't want to get all soggy!

• Digital cameras - if you are shooting JPEG - check your white balance - snow can easily appear too blue or too orange depending on the lighting conditions.
  

• If you are shooting RAW you will not need to worry about white balance as you can adjust this in RAW conversion.
  

• WATCH your exposure. Your camera will have a tendancy to produce images that are too dark if the snow is really bright.

• On digital cameras you may have a 'snow' mode so try that. If you have a histogram feature on your camera to view your exposure, check to see if your highlights are getting blown out (reduce exposure if they are). For more on using a histogram see video below:

• If you are shooting black and white film you should OVER EXPOSE by one stop (make sure that needle is heading towards the + symbol).

For more tips and some great ideas for images - watch the video below:

"Learn from the best; the second-raters have nothing to offer."
David Hurn

Image by David Hurn

"Vintage Watson"

Albert Watson at Hamiltons Gallery, London

26th November 2010 - 21st January 2011

For more info - click here.
Image by Alvert Watson

Smash His Camera - Ron Galella

Paparazzi Photographer

This was on BBC1 last night- you can watch online on BBC iPlayer until 28th December.

Information on programme

Widely considered to be the world's first paparazzi photographer, the controversial American photojournalist Ron Galella was sued by Jackie Kennedy and had his jaw broken by Marlon Brando. Throughout a career spanning more than 40 years, Galella's stalking tactics have attracted criticism, hostility and lawsuits. But his relentless pursuit of the famous has enabled him to amass an archive of 3 million photographs that represent a unique record of modern American celebrity culture.

In this film, the award-winning programme-maker Leon Gast follows Galella as he revisits some of his old haunts and recalls his encounters with the stars who have tried - and usually failed - to evade his lens.

Click here to watch on BBC iPlayer.

For more info on Ron Galella click here.

Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 13

This episode is on white balance.

Image by Andrea Norrington
Autumn is a great time for sunrise and sunset photography

This article is full of good tips.
Click here to read.

The strange allure of train station steps and other urban scenes of beauty

Examples of urban images from a recent competition by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.

Click here to view.

"If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up."

Richard Avedon

Image by Richard Avedon

A2 Photography

Student Photographic Competition

“The Journey is the Destination”

The winner of the competition is Arron Voice. His shot contrasts the bustle of Oxford Street with the relative calm of Ramillies Street where we visited the Photographers’ Gallery.

Although the Gallery is now closed until Autumn 2011 you can still participate in their Street Photography project online by visiting www.photonet.org.uk

Image by Aaron Voice

Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 12

Depth of Field explained

In pictures: Hasselblad Masters for 2009

The prestigious Hasselblad Masters celebrates established and rising photographic artists.

View a slideshow of work from this years winners here.

For more info on the Hasselblad Master series click here.

Images by Mick Rock
Mick Rock

Music photographer interviewed by BBC.

For the interview - click on the link below:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11722670

"Unlike the writer, once I unpack my bags, there is no chance for another draft - either I have the shot or I don't. This is what drives and hauntes the professional photographers, the gnawing sense that 'this is it'."

Steve McCurry

Image by Steve McCurry

John Cyr

Developer Trays





Check out his project where he has been photographing developer trays belonging to different photographers.

Image by John Cyr

The Julie Project by Darcy Padilla

An incredibly personal and involved project over 17 years photographing Julie and documenting her struggle with HIV/AIDS and poverty in America.

Click below for the link:
http://www.darcypadilla.com/thejulieproject/intro.html

Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 11

A range of studio lighting set ups.

Remember, remember the 5th November!!!

How to Photograph Fireworks

Summary on a digital compact camera:

Use a tripod (one of those mini tripods is ideal for this - Poundland currently doing them for a bargain £1!!

Use Fireworks option if you have it

If not - use the lowest ISO you can, the longest shutter speed you can and a two second self-timer

Summary on a digital SLR camera:

Use a tripod (not a Poundland one)

Use Manual mode (M)

Select 5 second shutter speed (you can try others)

Select the lowest ISO you can - 100 or 200

Use an aperture of f10 or smaller (eg f11, f16)

Use a remote release (if you don't have one use the 2 second self-timer)

Summary on a film camera:

Use a tripod

Use a slow film (FP4 for example)

Use 'B' mode for the shutter speed and expose for approx. 5 seconds

Use an aperture of f11 or f16

All cameras:

Framing and viewpoint

Try and get above the crowd.

Think about having a foreground interest - crowd, building etc

Lens

Use a wide angle lens to ensure that you can capture the area of the sky that the fireworks exploding

Flash

Turn off!!!

If you don't have a tripod

Then use a surface to rest your camera on - bench, wall etc

Using the self-timer will help to ensure that the camera is as steady as possible

"Daylight is the most delicious of the several kinds of light available to a photographer."

Irving Penn

Image by Irving Penn

Ex-students feature in Velvet Magazine

Marcus Barnes and Rachel Abraham both have work featured in Velvet Magazine.