Sounds complex, but its not! It is, however a really important concept in most forms of writing or drawing with light. Hyperfocal distance is the distance from the lens to the focal point, that is in focus, and the distance beyond the focal point, that is in focus. If I am making a portrait and I use a very wide aperture, and focus on the clients eye, at f1.8, their pupil will be in focus, but their eye lashes won’t. There will be times when this effect is desirable, and time

Editing a modern digital photograph, is a similar process to developing an analogue photograph. Initially I make a photo as a RAW image. This allows the digital file to contain as much information from the original exposure as possible. The first level edit is done with the RAW file. I colour balance, crop out any unwanted peripheral mess, adjust exposure and adjust “levels& Curves”. Occasionally I adjust a bit of contrast and brightness. This is my standard edit, which I do

I bought my first camera in 1974. It was a cheap Russian camera that took standard 35mm (what we now call full frame) film. It had the absolute minimum of controls. To adjust the aperture, you used a ring on the front of the lens, there was a little thing to turn for the shutter speed. To focus it, there was another slightly larger ring on the lens. On the top of the camera was an eye piece, with a prism inside, so the you could see the mirror. What you could see, was what ap

Exposure! Exposure is probably the single most important concept in photography! The use of the word comes from the origins of photography where a light sensitive material was exposed to light to make the image. The process has gone through many iterations of glass plates, light sensitive chemicals and materials, to the present day sensors. The exposure of a photo is the combination of three basic components, all to do with light. That’s why its called “photography” writing o